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Restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and superstar collaborator, MATTHEW HERBERT is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads. Recording under his own name as well as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy and others, Herbert has also produced and remixed artists as diverse as Bjork, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. An alchemist of avant-garde sound in the tradition stretching from Stockhausen to the Aphex Twin, Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda. In his increasingly conceptual and political albums he has emerged as a unique figure in modern music: a kind of one-man Radiohead, or a Brian Eno for the 21st century. It was in January 1995 that Herbert gave his first large public performance. His instruments: a sampler and a bag of crisps. But long before he discovered the revolutionary possibilities of sampling, he began playing violin and piano at the age of four. When he was seven he sang in the school choir and played with orchestras. At school, he had the good fortune to have a music teacher who considered Reich, Xenakis and Jazz standards to be the equal of Beethoven. During his time as a theatre student at Exeter University, Herbert, the son of a BBC sound technician, continued to invest in his own home studio. Herbert's studies helped to germinate his interest in "musique concrete". Rummaging around his bag of crisps was only the beginning. His 1998 masterwork 'Around the House' (re-released on !K7 in 2002) collected sounds from the house and home: washing machines, toasters and toothbrushes were sampled and processed into swinging grooves and absorbing sound scapes. All the project needed was the silken voice of Dani Siciliano, Herbert's long-term collaborator, to humanise the album into a left-field classic. In 2000, Herbert wrote a manifesto, the "Personal Contract for the Composition Of Music (PCCOM) (Incorporating the Manifesto of Mistakes)", rules which have defined the compositional methods ever since. The manifesto, not unlike Dogme 95's filmic principles, prohibits the use of any pre-recorded musical sources, as well as any synthetic sounds that imitate acoustic instruments. Furthermore, accidental sounds or errors should influence the process of his production. Herbert considers mistakes in programming or recording as the welcome intervention of random humanity in a sterile world. This is a man, after all, who runs a record label called Accidental. Deriving much of its musical content from human skin, hair, bones and the random contents of Dani Siciliano's handbag, Herbert's 2001 album 'Bodily Functions' was the audible result of putting this theory to practice. But far from being limited by these self-imposed rules, the record unlocked rich new vaults of unique sound and fascinating rhythm from the most unlikely everyday objects. In 2003 Herbert redefined his musical agenda yet again with his big-band album 'Goodbye Swingtime', which was recorded at Abbey Road studios with 16 jazz and session musicians. Despite its self-consciously traditional elements, the album was composed under strict PCCOM rules, and again featured Siciliano on vocals. The subsequent live shows, including Sonar in Barcelona, the Montreux jazz festival, and Roskilde festival in Denmark, were rapturously received by large crowds. From bedroom samplers to concert halls, Herbert continues to expand the horizons of electro-organic music. The political content of Herbert's music has become increasingly overt in recent years. His 2004 album 'Plat Du Jour' was his most rigorously experimental to date, featuring sounds entirely derived from food and its packaging. Unified in concept and content, it used witty culinary metaphors to attack not just giant food companies but also the death penalty, body fascism and war in Iraq. In Britain, 'The Guardian' called the consequent live shows, complete with a chef making live smells "a wild stimulation of senses, feet and intellect". In 2005, Herbert produced 'Ruby Blue', the debut solo album by Moloko singer Roisin Murphy. A fertile garden of flamboyant dance-pop and artfully textured jazz-funk. Herbert's latest album, 'Scale', is probably his most pleasingly pop-friendly mellifluous so far. But beneath its deceptively glossy surface sheen of jazz, disco and sensual house rhythms lie quietly anguished meditations on mortality, global suffering and the end of the oil age. Among the 723 objects sampled on these lush tracks are coffins, petrol pumps, meteorites, an RAF Tornado bomber, and somebody being sick outside a banquet for a notorious London arms fair. More than any previous Herbert album, 'Scale' combines immaculately groomed dance music with subversive subject matter. Herbert is as solid as a rock in these times of "borderless digital arbitrariness," as the German newspaper 'Die Zeit' once described his work. Between programming mistakes and the conceptual stringency of his PCCOM manifest, between divine accident and strict intent, whether he scores films or theatre shows or paints the musical backdrop for fashion shows - Herbert's endless innovation and transgression of genres is never just art for its own sake. His music is always engaged in lively dialogue with the wider world, with the past and future of experimental music, with its own political and economic origins.
Gaming preview: 'Ghostbusters: The Video Game'
"Ghostbusters: The Video Game" is perhaps one of the most ambitious efforts to continue a film franchise via a video game. The title will take place two years after the events of Ghostbusters 2 and stars all four original cast members. Also reuniting from the original films are Brian Doyle-Murray, William Atherton, and Annie Potts. "Ghostbusters: The Video Game" will be released on all gaming platforms in June 2009.
Woody Allen's wonderfully neurotic Alvy Singer falls for the equally neurotic Annie Hall and movie history is made. As talk-show host Conan O'Brien put it, no one plays "lovable befuddlement" like Diane Keaton, and no one creates romantic comedies quite like Woody Allen. Existential angst has never been so entertaining. Arguably Allen's best film, "Annie Hall" took home Oscars for Best Picture, Actress, Direction, and Screenplay (cowritten with Marshall Brickman).
Lil' Daddy: "Dime a Dozen (Clean Version)"
All the way from the deepest of the "Dirty South" town of Fitzgerald, Georgia, Lil' Daddy (aka "The Hustler") has taken his rap skills and his real life stories and the HOT beats of Tedd Flash & Bill Dolla, and has put the hottest album of clubbangers' cuts like "G.T.H.", "4 Da South" and "Dime A Dozen" together. This album also contains hot underground street cuts like "Annie Belle", "25th Psalms" and "Felonies". Lil' Daddy (aka "The Hustler") is the realest, and one of the best rappers in the South because he'll give you the hustler's story STRAIGHT FROM THA STREETS. Now here is a special version made for download.com of the song "DIME A DOZEN". For more info, go to ww.lildaddymusic.com
"Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter" DVD clip: "Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop"
In this clip, Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop sing "Well Did You Evah?" DVD description: "Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter" is an eclectic homage to the legendary songwriter benefiting AIDS research and relief. It features artistic videos addressing the effect of AIDS on society from such acclaimed directors as Jonathan Demme (The Manchurian Candidate, Silence of the Lambs), Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, U2: The Best of 1990-2000), Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) and Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Mystery Train). As a bonus, the DVD includes a live performance by Annie Lennox with Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter of ?Everytime We Say Goodbye? from the 1995 VH1 Honors Awards. Also presented on the DVD are interviews with Roland Gift, Richard Gere and John Malkovich culled from the 1991 Red Hot + Blue TV special.
the sydney eclectic composers' society held a concert of electroacoustic music at the manning bar, manning house, university of sydney union, on 14 september, 2004. I was there, with my music. And a camera. This is an excerpt from the full video. The radiosonic soundtrack is 'stammer', from my album 'Carriers'. Similar radiosonic music tracks are available from downloads.com under my pseudonym 'rellstab'.
The image of the sound, the sound of the image
Basic idea was to create a image of the sound and a sound of the image. "Author" of the music is my software "LvB's X" (virtual music composer) then I made arrangement. The animation - renderer: ART VPS RenderPipeMAX. Audio: Cubase VST, CoolEdit and samples from CD/DVD: "Computer Music", "MusicTech", "Future Music" and "homemade". Realization: 1.-idea development 1995-2003 2.-software and 3D models 2001-2004 3.-animating 3D models and music 2002-2005 4.-final video october 2005. Now, I will try to make DVD with 12 videos. Each one will be dedicated parallelly to one musical instrument and to one month illustrated corresponding temper / mood / weathering factors / atmospheric agents (sun, moon, rain, snow, wind, fog, aurora borealis, dew, clouds, rainbow,...). I hope it can be done at the end of 2007. Broadcasting quality of this video you can download here www.lvbsx.com.
The film consists of mixed 3D-animation, 2D-animation, frame-by-frame animation and still images. Also some self-recorded sounds and some self-composed music, though lots of sound effects and music samples were taken from free internet sources. LightWave3D, Photoshop, After Effects, Acid Pro. The original video-material is saved as 7489 single 1920x1080 PNG frames.
Audio Bullies: "Shot You Down"
This Audio Bullies track samples a seductive cut from Miss. Boots-are-made-for-walking, Nancy Sinatra, and makes the soundtrack to a colorful, trippy video.
A music video for the song "Cloud Filled". This video was shot in Seattle, WA and was made in 2004. I create music videos for my solo project (MINI LiFE) as well as other bands. I also work on soundtracks for indie films. This video along with a slew of others will be released this Christmas all around the internet so keep a lookout for them. -O
