This week’s evidence the Japanese are hornily insane
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This week’s evidence the Japanese are happily insane
…and who find this a relaxing alternative to a commute on the Tokyo subway.
Monday’s Musical Madness
You make it through this, I buy you a beer. Deal?
(Thanks, Isaac… I think.)
This week’s evidence the Japanese are happily insane
Powers of Ten + Chicane…
…equals AWESOME. (Unbiased opinion from me, even though I made this.)
This is the core of the short film Powers of Ten (1977) by Charles and Ray Eames. I cut the opening titles and end credits in order to have a nicely-framed union with the music (i.e., neither extend beyond the other’s boundaries except to the closing title card). Other than trimming it and a slight fade-in at the beginning, no other edits were performed; no change to the tempo/frame rate, etc. (Despite appearances, I manipulated the music, not the other way around). The original audio of the film was removed which consisted of narration and some rather dated music. Please see the original film (copies are available elsewhere on YouTube) as it describes much of what you are seeing and (at the extremes in particular) probably not taking in unless you are well-versed in multiple science disciplines.
The music is a somewhat expanded mix of Empires by electronic artist Chicane (aka Nick Bracegirdle). I extended the track in several spots to get it to fall on the visual cues (e.g., it goes down-tempo as the pull-back winds down, etc.). I’m new at this so there are a few noticeable splices in the mix where I built bridges out of scraps sampled from elsewhere in the original track, but there are a couple spots where I hear splices in the original recording, and these are in areas that I didn’t even touch, so good luck guessing which are mine if you’ve never heard this piece before.
Wednesday’s Wedding Whackiness
…just to remind you there are bigger nerds than me out there.
This week’s evidence the Japanese are happily insane
Making Contact with Chicane
Something I made. Enjoy.
Film: This is the opening sequence of the film Contact (1997) by Robert Zemeckis, based on Carl Sagan’s novel which features a pull-back very similar to the first half of Charles and Ray Eames short film “Powers of Ten.” The original audio was removed, the point of which was to show the dispersion of human-generated radio signals across the universe (i.e., we haven’t been transmitting long enough to make ourselves known very far from home). By about two-thirds of the way into the segment, there’s nothing but silence. I saw this three times in the theater around the time it came out, and that silence was so loud every time, I get chills thinking about it.
My only edits were to remove the title and introduce a slight fade-in. Originally it “blasts” you visually much as the audio does with the aforementioned radio cacophony, and that didn’t gel with the music here.
Music: Arizona Pt.2 by Chicane. No edits were made. Things lined up surprisingly well so I used this instead of a couple other tracks I preferred but would have had to manipulate.
