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Annual video from Lux Helsinki. This year we had quite warm and wet weather for this time of the year. I used Korg Minilogue morphed with Soma Ether for synth parts. Ether was recorded to video's audio track and that sound was used on DAW. Little Ether you hear was recorded same time as video was shot. There is little of Pigments 2. Choir is Spitfire's Eric Whitacre Choir. Video was shot with Sony A6600.
Times are changing. The place where this was shot is being torn down and something else is build on its place. That means Helsinki will lose one of the better venues for bands to gigs. I have seen quite a few bands there. Some of my favorite bands have played there. I don’t remember did I see Cult of Luna there.
And the weather. We don’t get that kind of weather any more.
This is really good introduction to modular synths. Just have to share it. It is not complete. There are many things missing but this is good starting point telling why some of us like modular systems so much. Second part of series goes deeper into what is available. Watching these two videos give you good picture what modular synths are and what they can do. There is much more to modular synths but it would take much more time.
I went quite experimental with this one. On both video and music side. It could be taste of things to come. Experimental videos are more fun to make. Next one will be experimental at least on music side. Don’t know how experimental I can go on video side. If it works it could start series of videos. But more about that next time.
Video tells my plans for 2020. I try to get rid of gear acquisition syndrome. There are still something like 360 camera I’d like to have but for what I have I am not going to get something only with minor improvements on what I already have. How that works remains to be seen.
Short video telling why I had so long break and why videos will take so long to publish. I have listened lately two podcasts which talked about how being jack of all trades can be good thing in the end. Book about that was released lately. Here I tell how hard it could be if you want to get something done. Video was heavily inspired by Death Grips' I've Seen Footage. I wrote little about that video in other post.
Video is made out of 1262 stills I shot during few nights and short Blender animation test. I try to make fully animated videos next year. This was sneak peak to those videos if they ever get made.
Last week I had script for video but no idea what to shoot. Then I watched Death Grips’ I’ve Seen Footage and knew exactly what I wanted to do. Now I have video ready to be uploaded to Youtube heavily inspired by this video. This post’s thumbnail is from earlier version of my video. What will go to Youtube will be little different.
I found Death Grips earlier this year from link in group I was in. Link was to cyberpunk site which had post telling about Death Grips. Death Grips is not cyberpunk. It is something else. You could say it hip hop group with artistic tendencies and who doesn’t care about anything. But that doesn’t say what the group actually is. Their roots are in hip hop but they are so experimental on everything labeling them just hip hop band doesn’t make justice to what they are.
Death Grips is more of a experience than band. They have ideas they go full on without compromises. Ideas aren’t always that good but energy and attitude they put in makes them work most of the times. I’ve Seen Footage is good gateway to world of Death Grips. It will get weirder when you get deeper. I have’t found anything else getting even close to Death Grips.