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A Midsummer Night's Dream


               INT. CORPORATE OFFICES - NIGHT

               A large corporate office space with many cubicles is
               deserted; quiet.

               Desks littered with papers and personal affects.

               Minimal, after-hours lighting.

               CLOSE UP OF CRICKET ON DESK.

               The cricket begins to play his night-song.

               More and more we see many plants and trees in various spots
               in this office.

               Further shots reveal that this office is actually dense with
               an unusual amount of plant-life.

               A NIGHT-WATCH MAN enters in uniform.

               He walks through the maze of cubicles until he reaches a
               small area reserved for making coffee.

               Sitting on the ground gracefully is DORIS. She is beautiful
               and wears glasses.

Posted by Job O Brother on April 27, 2007 at 08:03pm | Post a Comment

The Jungle Book


               INT. JOB'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

               JOB, (early 30's) sits at his desk. A BLACK CAT is curled in
               his lap.

               He's listening to music on shuffle; a new song playing every
               few minutes or so. Currently playing is an early song by
               Front 242 from their album "Geography", located in the
               Gothic/Industrial section of Amoeba Music.

               He's typing out his latest blog, in screenplay format.

               In the time it takes him to describe the music that's
               playing, it switches to a track from Clinic's latest effort,
               "Visitations"; an album he is still exploring and enjoying,
               though it doesn't immediately rock his world like their
               impish, catchy and pithy album "Walking With Thee", located
               in the Rock/Pop section of Amoeba Music; an album which
               samples one of his heroes, Laurie Anderson, also found in
               that section.

Posted by Job O Brother on April 12, 2007 at 10:34am | Post a Comment

New Music Tech:

Tangible Sequencer
Perfect for a Boards of Canada video, I've imagined the children who are at the Oracle's house in The Matrix playing with the Tangible Sequencer in these youtube videos:



The combination of the primary colors, the slow, steady pulse and music box sounds distinctly remind me of childhood. Jeffrey Traer Bernstein of the Sound Lab at Princeton's Computer Science Department created this interesting technology that I can see being applied to plenty of different new music interfaces.





Posted by Mike Battaglia on April 5, 2007 at 01:39am | Comments (1)