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Jul 07.2009
Hi there, folks
My friend Steph Thirion, the man with whom I collaborated on the concept for theturn.tv, has released his iPhone game to really terrific reviews! I’m so proud of him! Please check out his ultra-cool (ultra-challenging!) game: Eliss!
Best of luck, my friend! I hope you have many sales!
Damn, damn, damn!
Jul 04.2009
I just had the most wonderful dream of the writing of a new song. It was a strange song, but much more… hmm, how to describe it? Well it was intelligent, mature, but also a bit sexy, humorous, it kind of seemed like something from the 20s. I can actually still hear the lead line in my head, but the whole construction of the piece was really sophisticated and cool. I loved it and was so inspired. And I thought I wasn’t dreaming. I spent about an hour in this dream recording the ideas. I then played them for my sister, who responded immediately with great delight! Suddenly in the dream I got had the faintest realization I was not in Woodstock. I started to put two and two together and it dawned on me… this is a dream. And the song has not been recorded. Suddenly I started listening to it over and over, savoring it, as I knew most of it would be rolling out of my head as I pull myself to waking reality. And that is exactly what has happened. The lead line has indeed been warped by the clutching I did to hold on to it. Without the awesome backing vocals and piano it’s unrecognizable. I’m an insecure shadow of my vibrant, dreaming self!
The Sad Song, cluster di Bra
Jul 03.2009
Hello there, folks.
I just got back from two very satisfying weeks, if a little tiring, in Manchester, Paris and Bra, Italy. Basically the first 6 days were spent rehearsing with my musician brothers Ben, Graeme, Jasper and Scalde for our first headlining show in Paris.
The show was at Café de la Dance, a venue I had been told was really nice and it definitely proved to be so.
Like the last performance in France, the audience was amazing - very receptive, emotional, good-spirited. We all had such a monumentally good time! And this was quite a hard gig, as we had introduced a handful of songs sung with full choral vocal parts, so we had to practice those over and over.
Anyway, while there, I met two old friends, one disastrato and my childhood friend Shane, as well as a new friend, one Anne-Cécile. It was a little difficult concentrating after the show, as truly I was on cloud nine and super excited. The show went so very well. We got a lot of love from the audience and gave our fullest in return.
The performance will be online in full from the Arte website until the end of August, and you can watch it here!
After that I went on an 8 hour train ride to Bra, Italy, which is the Slow Food movement capital city! It’s in the Piedmont area of Italy, about an hour from Torino. What followed were great days of watching short films, meeting new artists and a couple performances.
One of the performances was done alone - in an old Octagon-shaped building called La Zizzola di Bra I performed a 7 voiced version of The Sad Song. I then spent the next day mixing and compositing it together, and the day after that used the video as playback for a live performance in the courtyard of a baroque Palazzo in Bra. That performance went well too and I was very moved by how emotional and open-hearted the Italian audience was.
Anyway, I have just uploaded the circular/octagonal shaped video to my website. It’s the small dark circle.
I invite you to take a look/listen!
May 28.2009
My talented friends at the Art Pack made a piece about me, which includes footage shot at One Shot Not, the show I did feverish and sick!, an interview with Mauro Gioia, and a couple performances me and my musician friends did while we were in Paris. I am really proud to have a piece done by these guys, as they are very very talented. Take a look at the link, but make sure to check out their other stuff as well. They recently won a contest to create a whole short narrative in I think 48 hours, soup to nuts. The Art Pack
HOORAY! LAUS WIN!!!May 19.2009
Just now found out that theturn.tv, won a Laus award for Interactivity! This is great news! Many thanks to Cristo Castille and José Hernandez of Aer Visual Studio as well as Guille Lopez. They all did such an amazing job with the flash and coding (they truly are wizards!), as well as of course to Steph Thyrion who helped conceive the idea of the site itself. Cristo just wrote to me and told me the site won three awards!
Silver in “Corporate Websites”
Gold in “Interactive Innovation”
it also won the Grand Laus, which is the highest award of the whole “Interactive” category
I’m going to get cracking on some more videos to upload and take advantage of the wave of traffic that maybe will come!
Hooray!!!!