Thor Johnson remixed a piece of mine posted a few months ago:
"Tasteful Triphop (Thorrific Shruti Box Remix)" [mp3 removed].
The original tune is here:
"Tasteful Triphop" [mp3 removed].
Johnson's version is darker and more haunted. It is no longer tasteful, but instead might be described as a combination of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Can's "ethnographic forgery series," with a modern but gritty digital edge.
Johnson also has a new web video (approx 24 MB Flash file), a psychedelic montage of Dick Cheney's recent, much-booed "throwing out the first pitch" photo op with the debated-and-then-quickly-forgotten clip of American soldiers shooting the wounded in Fallujah. The repressed returns to mingle with the banality of evil (that baseball jacket!).
Thanks Tom!
A warning to people with slow computers (me included - on my home computer): the video might slow your 'puter down, it is kind of huge for a Flash file... but it works good on my computer at work because it is faster & has a better video card.
I added some file specs to the main post. I didn't have any problem viewing it. I couldn't tell how much effect my mouse movements were having on the mix--it seemed to move pretty independently of what I was doing. Are you supposed to hold down the mouse button when making movements?
You don't have to hold the button down or click, just move the mouse around over the image, it mixes the more "psychedelic" layer with the more "naturalistic" layer.
There are also moving invisible sound objects that are triggered when the mouse is over them, they move around so they are not always in the same place.
I thought about making visual changes triggered by clicks, but then I figured the file was huge enough as it is.
Thanks. Dick Cheney looks like he's walking around in the Twilight Zone, or the fog of purgatory before being judged for his crimes.
Yeah, I thought it had a trippy, "Apocalypse Now" kind of feel to it, and it kind of seems like Big Dick is walking on that dead/wounded man...
your work just keeps getting better, Thor. keep it up!
Thanks, Tlakatekatl! I just saw your comment. Sorry I'm almost a year late!!!!!
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Thor Johnson remixed a piece of mine posted a few months ago:
"Tasteful Triphop (Thorrific Shruti Box Remix)" [mp3 removed].
The original tune is here:
"Tasteful Triphop" [mp3 removed].
Johnson's version is darker and more haunted. It is no longer tasteful, but instead might be described as a combination of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Can's "ethnographic forgery series," with a modern but gritty digital edge.
Johnson also has a new web video (approx 24 MB Flash file), a psychedelic montage of Dick Cheney's recent, much-booed "throwing out the first pitch" photo op with the debated-and-then-quickly-forgotten clip of American soldiers shooting the wounded in Fallujah. The repressed returns to mingle with the banality of evil (that baseball jacket!).
- tom moody 5-09-2006 6:39 pm
Thanks Tom!
A warning to people with slow computers (me included - on my home computer): the video might slow your 'puter down, it is kind of huge for a Flash file... but it works good on my computer at work because it is faster & has a better video card.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 5-09-2006 7:13 pm
I added some file specs to the main post. I didn't have any problem viewing it. I couldn't tell how much effect my mouse movements were having on the mix--it seemed to move pretty independently of what I was doing. Are you supposed to hold down the mouse button when making movements?
- tom moody 5-09-2006 7:21 pm
You don't have to hold the button down or click, just move the mouse around over the image, it mixes the more "psychedelic" layer with the more "naturalistic" layer.
There are also moving invisible sound objects that are triggered when the mouse is over them, they move around so they are not always in the same place.
I thought about making visual changes triggered by clicks, but then I figured the file was huge enough as it is.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 5-09-2006 7:26 pm
Thanks. Dick Cheney looks like he's walking around in the Twilight Zone, or the fog of purgatory before being judged for his crimes.
- tom moody 5-09-2006 7:33 pm
Yeah, I thought it had a trippy, "Apocalypse Now" kind of feel to it, and it kind of seems like Big Dick is walking on that dead/wounded man...
- Thor Johnson (guest) 5-09-2006 7:45 pm
your work just keeps getting better, Thor. keep it up!
- Tlakatekatl (guest) 9-28-2007 3:00 am
Thanks, Tlakatekatl! I just saw your comment. Sorry I'm almost a year late!!!!!
- Thor (guest) 5-20-2008 4:51 am