Moondog - Spend dark night with you (musicvideo)

Moondog was the best musician/composer i've been introduced to in 2008 (via last.fm's recommendation engine).

Here's a musicvideo mix i did yesterday of Moondog's "Why spend the dark night with you" with a video i got from archive.org. Enjoy below or watch it in Youtube or in Vimeo:



Or download it (from Vimeo) 7.4MB.

My Music Library

FINALLY!!!!

After years & years of gathering songs and transfering from one HD to the other, today i have finally tagged ALL my songs!!

Status:

• 13242 songs = 51.9 days = 99.23GB


• 36 Genres, 1234 Artists, 1805 Albums

My biggest problem was creating/inventing the Genres tag, as you can see in the screenshot of my iTunes (that i hate, but i'm stuck on it in my mac):


To read them, see the original size here.

Now my next duty is to listen & rate them ALL! including updating my Last.fm profile. So keep an eye there (now i'm checking my Ethnic genres out)...

Tagging Music

So i've spend the entire saturday fixing the ID3v2 Tags of my MP3. I couldn't finish all (the 50GBs) of my 'YET_TO_TAG' folder. But i managed to do half, on the easiest, of course. (Using ID3-Tagit for Windows).

Today i tried to run into the big problems: Classical and Electronic (DJ Remixes).

And there is no ONE way to tag a song, no formal rule...

So after checking out some forums, i liked the idea of Kerensky97 on this post:

when it comes to:
Classical music I use the composer as the artist.
Pop music the performer as the artist.
And DJ remixes is a gray area but usually the DJ as artist.

Hopefully i'll remember this and 'fix' all my music...

Next part of my winter will be images with their IPTC Tags...

Run On to the originals

On my collages, i'm always trying (managing this is a pain) to credit the source i used, not because of copyright problems, but mostly to show everyone (and myself) where the original cut up came from. It gives much more information about creativity and resources to make other remixes.

And here's an music example i run onto this week:

I always loved Moby's Play album. Specially 'Run On' (see the music video). I knew it was a remix of some other song, but always forgot to go after the original. Remember, 1998/2000 it was MUCH harder (and fun) to chase this info.

So i came across this great slow motion video featuring Johnny Cash's version:



(see the Original Site)

After one google/wikipedia search i saw that both are based on a folk song called: God's Gonna Cut You Down.

Hopefully with semantic web this will all be done automatically.

some 2008 news until now

Some news i want to share:

- I've received a wonderful 40.00 USD Donation from England! Thanks a lot!!!

- My song noTV was used in Slava Barouline's short film named A.M (see it on Vimeo)

- I'm trying to set some art milestones for me: X analog, Y digital collages, Z songs, V videos per 6 months. No luck on the right minimum numbers yet...

- I'm FINALLY adding a Collages / Collaborations page here. Just need to update with all my collaborations now...

- I've made 3 new analog collages: Curves, Owlephant and FaunaFlora:

"Owlephant"

"Curves"

"FaunaFlora"

Goldsworthy and Murcof

I'm absolutely fascinated with the works of Andy Goldsworthy and Murcof's music.
So here is my humble homage to both, done on this shiny sunday afternoon:




Youtube link: Rivers Tides & Mes.

Ghiroma and Accessibility

Here is a nice example of why FreeCulture is beautiful!
I just received a link to a video about Web Accessibility (YouTube link here) and
starting at 1:57min is the song i did with Folopo: "Ghiroma - Last American Haiku".
Exactly during the part they curse Globo!
Ps: Nice to be listed on the credits (in the 2nd part).
Altough i agree (with my collages) that it is sometimes difficult to remember the sources.

On making music

I'm now trying to make two songs, one i started July 17th (9 days ago), using 'Arvo Pärt - Für Alina' cut-ups. And the other, March 28h (4 months). But i can't finish them...

I work with it for a night, than sleep over, try to listen the next day in other environment (while biking specially), than some days later i go add some and change other parts, but almost always i have trouble liking it as a whole.

One thing i noticed is that the songs change completely on different speakers and headphones. What i find interesting on the computer sucks, on the iPod or at my home stereo. It has to do with equalization, i think. Some beautiful timbres and harmonies simply disappear on some speakers, other parts get unnecessary focus, like some vocal percussion i'm trying out from freesound.

Probably this two songs won't be released. I'm pretty sure (today at least) that they lack in structure, are too repetitive (while not being minimal, as i wanted). But i'm learning... This remembers me Andy Goldsworthy (in the Rivers and Tides documentary) describing (during one 'implosion') that every time his egg-stone sculpture 'implodes' due to gravity, he learns a little more about the stone... then after some trials, he makes it.

I shall now try a new one, starting with Diplo's tip: "Start with the perfect bass loop".
Hopefully this will be a collaboration with Folopo, with our hibernated Ghiroma project.

Ghiroma Last American Haiku Music Video

So here is the result of 2 days of Premier Pro workshop (video tutorial), the Music Video of "Ghiroma - Last American Haiku" (listen here). This is Ghiroma's (Folopo and I) first song, from 2004. The videos are all Betty Boop from archive.org. I called it "Drunk as a Dog" (yes, i'm no good at viral marketing).



See this in Youtube or in Vimeo or download it here.

Projeto Mix

For the second year, Folopo and I will DJ at Projeto Mix, as our duo Ghiroma.
I also will give an analog collage workshop there.
Projeto Mix 2: May 25 to 27.
See you there

YouTube: Your Video with my Song

Nice! YouTube Labs 'made arrangements with artists and record labels so that you can add their songs to your YouTube videos'. I wasn't aware of it, but one song i released in ccmixter as Sohaclara is there: noTV. Two strong possibilities: 1- it got an Editorial Pick in ccmixter and 2- the name noTV.
So if you have a video on YouTube, go to AudioSwap page, click 'Try AudioSwap' then you'll choose a video and by clicking 'Replace Audio', you'll be redirected to a page like this:

Go to Genre: Electronica > Artist: Sohaclara > Track: noTV.

If you do change your audio with this song, sent me the link in the comments here.

Terry Riley

It's been almost one month since i'm almost everyday listening to the minimalist Terry Riley.
I advice you specialy: Atlantis Nath (download here) and No Man's Land. Minimalist piano (and sometimes he sings too) with touches of indian music. Amazing stuff!

managing iTunes on OSX

ok, iTunes sucks, but since i don't have musikCube on my iuriBook (OSX) [will post about it soon], i'll have to get around with it. So i figured out how to manage my folders without iTunes messing the names (and having a Watched Folder).
On "Preferences > Advanced", uncheck both 'keep iTunes folder organized' and 'copy files iTunes music folder...'

So this way i can add my songs, the way i like (Genre/Artist/Album). And everytime i update my library (manually copying the song to my Music Folder) i just need to update it by selecting "File > Add to Library..." and choose my Music Folder.

So the songs that where already there don't loose their ratings. And i can move the songs around the folders and it still keeps track of them.

Reijseger Sylla Gueye Trio

Yesterday i saw an amazing concert: Ernst Reijseger, Mola Sylla & Serigne Gueye. I think they're playing mostly the Janna album (Get it here, and sent me a copy please [got it!]: ).
I've uploaded this video of the trio playing, but i didn't cared about image, only the audio.
I've found also some other project of them in video: Groovy and Double Duty.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4PwZ5XnDnKc]

iPod died and how i recovered it

Last Sunday my iPod (video) died. The battery didn't charged anymore and nothing happened plugging it into my PC. So i left it alone for 2 days and some minutes ago i checked on the iPod support website. Fortunatelly the First of the Five Rs solved my problem: the Reset function:

1. Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)


2. Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step.

Thanks almighty electroniks!
If you happen to have some other unsolved problems, you can also try the iPod discussion forum.

Ghiroma’s First DJ Set

Ghiroma [Folopo and I (Felaiuki)] played our first DJ set yesterday (20060702) on the Projeto Mix Festival. The vibe was amazing. Check out the photos here.
We played songs of: Lalgudi Jayaraman, Fela Kuti, Bobby McFerrin, Flanger, Lee Morgan, Lotus, Murcof and other stuff.

Our next step is to play live...

Soon, very soon...

BurnStation

Very nice project on free music distribution: Burn Station.
Take a look at their Burn Station Promo Video. and this other site on Platoniq.

MontreuxJazz2006

If you have time and money, go to the Montreux Jazz 2006 to see the following:

• Abdullah Ibrahim


• Amon Tobin


• Chick Corea Mozart's Project


• Dani Siciliano


• Erik Truffaz


• Gilles Peterson's Worldwide


• Herbert


• Herbie Hancock 5tet


• Jack DeJohnette


• Jimmy Page


• Kora Jazz Trio


• Les McCann


• Murcof featuring


• Ornette Coleman


• Paolo Conte


• Robert Plant


• Zakir Hussain

gismonti

Finally, after 3 years in Rio (he also lives here)
i saw Egberto Gismonti playing again.
Last (and first) time was in PercPan 1999 (Salvador)
playing a PVC tube, piano, guitar.

If you don't know him try:
Agua & Vinho; Salvador; Loro; Frevo; Maracatu.

alaiera

So here's a song i did using only cibelle's "noite de carnaval" loops.
Download it here (right-click >> Save Link as...):

felaiuki - alaiera (feat cibelle)

or listen directly here:
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/felaiukialaeirafeatcibelle/felaiuki__alaiera_feat._cibelle_256.mp3]

I highly advice you to check Cibelle's website out.
And see two of her musicvideos:Gracefully andAbout a Girl.