Music portrait of Otto Dix.
Music portrait of Marcel Duchamp
A small story of rebellion.
I took St. Petersburg Winter Palace - left empty when Nicholas II and imperial family moved to Alexander Palace - as a hint to depict 1905 russian Bloody Sunday.
"Bloody Sunday (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье) was an incident on January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard. The march was organized by Father Gapon, who had collaborated with Sergei Zubatov of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, to create workers' organizations and thus considered by some to be its agent provocateur. Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime, as the disregard for ordinary people shown by the massacre undermined support for the state."
[from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_1905]
"Bloody Sunday (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье) was an incident on January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard. The march was organized by Father Gapon, who had collaborated with Sergei Zubatov of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, to create workers' organizations and thus considered by some to be its agent provocateur. Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime, as the disregard for ordinary people shown by the massacre undermined support for the state."
[from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_1905]
Thar Desert is a 5/4 funk metal song from Outskirt (2008) by Hox Vox.
Soundtrack is third movement in Belief suite from Outskirt (by Hox Vox), while video is an aged cartoon :-D about a 60s hippie having a peyote experience on a mexican mesa.
Song is an hommage to "TBA" by Shinu Mazafakingu Ujimushi, an english grindcore band who recorded only that song on a Lo-Fi or Die compilation.
I replayed almost same drum sequence, with different timbers and sounds, and recreated the "roaring" with three violas. The result is kind of "Kronos Quartet plays Shinu Mazafakingu Ujimushi".
Video is a frenzy mix of die-cutted, muppeted, and rotoscoped people watching an Hox Vox concert.
I replayed almost same drum sequence, with different timbers and sounds, and recreated the "roaring" with three violas. The result is kind of "Kronos Quartet plays Shinu Mazafakingu Ujimushi".
Video is a frenzy mix of die-cutted, muppeted, and rotoscoped people watching an Hox Vox concert.
This track is about domestic violence. Music was made on Amiga 500 with MED (4 mono channels), it's minimal avant electronics similar to Bruce Haack / The Residents outputs.
Intro is the opening track in Étoile (july 2009), which is a concept album about stars; but I put a little pondering before, about swines and their sad destiny, creating an operatic dadaist inferno - where pigs are menacing main characters.
Track is about a great female historical figure, Joan of Arc, juxtaposed to middle east singers, and a quirky muezzin.
I worked with paint effects on some footages about Crusades, Jeanne d'Arc and east europe (looking like a little middle east) singers. Track is, briefly, about the juxtaposition of western guitar arpeggios and middle east vocals.
I worked with paint effects on some footages about Crusades, Jeanne d'Arc and east europe (looking like a little middle east) singers. Track is, briefly, about the juxtaposition of western guitar arpeggios and middle east vocals.
My intention was putting together women from both sides in Cusades: a western woman, the "étoile" in this case, which dared to act like a male soldier in a demented inquisition environment; and docile eastern singers. They got no moments of glory followed by dying on a pyre, but a continuous subordination, so actually it's a pondering about women's troubles in western or eastern world. Different ways and degrees of cruelty, same patriarchism.
Clip simply follow this scheme and adds a movie picture support. I needed just a couple of days to finish it as it's a "punk" expression in videomaking. This time I tried to catch the result on the fly, without exceeding in refurbishing every single frame. Not a draft, but a quicker language. And a different subject, it wasn't the right place to unleash some After Effects frenzy quirknesses. At the opposite, I worked on slow motion footages, to achieve a relaxed but a little gloomy mood.
I found quite cruel in the last sequence to put side by side Jeanne d'Arc in flames and a smiling singer. It was not intended as a revenge of muslim on a christian, but the cruelty in life itself. While one is dying, the other is enjoying his art.
Hox Vox part in collective soundtrack by The Sound of Apskaft - final sequence in first chapter "The Men and Maggots", when sailors refuse to eat wormed meat. It's a piece for low budget orchestra and bass guitar.
Apskaft workshop: http://www.last.fm/group/Apskaft
