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7. Big Ideas (don't get any)
1 year ago
Video by James Houston
jim@1030.co.uk
1030.co.uk
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I graduated from the Glasgow School of Art's graphic design course. This was my final project.
Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
I missed the contest deadline, so I'm offering it here for you to enjoy.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
jim@1030.co.uk
1030.co.uk
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I graduated from the Glasgow School of Art's graphic design course. This was my final project.
Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
I missed the contest deadline, so I'm offering it here for you to enjoy.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
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You should definitely send this to the band or post it over at their social networking site...
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Deliciously taking the irony naively seriously... or something like that. Great stuff!
that is truly amazing!
has the "radiohead commiunity" seen this?
good work!
Entirely awesome :)
Kinda miss the strings, though :)
can we get a link to an ogg, flac or mp3?
"Really i consider radiohead the best music band since Ok Computer"
JOB
JIM!
YOU'VE CONQUERED THE INTERNET...
See you Monday.
I will watch for your next creation with great anticipation.
" Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX " !!!!?????
HOW?!!! HOW? HOW HOWW???!!!!! not to kill the magic, but how is this possible!!???? ... i feel so dumb...
THX!
and what I admire the most, is that you make us believe that the pictures really belong to the sounds.
;-)
Certainly there are dotmatrix synth softwares available out there, and you could effectively program each one of these to make these noises. Not sure about the hard drive arrray (never seen one) but the rest have no reason to not be "real"
This is brilliant ;-)
Don't be in bad faith!
The vocals... just wow...
Please explain more about the process and the tech you applied...how did the hard drive speakers work? Why was the tape hooked up to the tv and other gear...were they actually synced some how? How? Very very cool stuff and thanks for sharing!
I would love to see the making of this video... video...
Can I be your friend? :)