The Grand
The Grand is a very stylish and beautifully polished synthesizer video coming your way
Via Joel Altfield
September 2010 Wiggler meetup
Monthly Muff Wiggler meetup, this time in beautiful Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Thanks to Opsybug for hosting!
Want to work with Vince Clarke, well here´s your chance
Erasure’s Vince Clarke has posted a new instrumental called “Symphony” on his official website and is asking fans to download the track and make their own music video for it. That’s right, if you ever wanted to link up with Vince Clarke this is your moment of total glory! Clarke is not fusy about what the video for the 4:35: song should be like: it could be an animation, a collection of stills, maybe an epic science fiction classic in the style of “Star Wars”, …
If you want to participate download the track from Clarke’s official website. The track will remain up until the end of October and anybody wanting to make a video should then post it to YouTube and send him a link. The best ones will be showcased sometime after October 31. Have fun!
Synth surgery labs
MINE DAIDENZIN – Mesotania
Time to do some surgery in this cool clinical synth video
Making of Inside with Jon Hopkins
Take a look at this Jon Hopkins video 
Director/Editor/Post Production: Bison
Producer: James Bretton
Production Company: Blinkink
Additional Camera: Chris Nunn
How the video was made:
We approached Jon with the idea for arm-mounted cameras a few weeks before the show, and luckily he was up for it, so we broke out the power tools and set about making some mounts: After dissecting a couple of tripods and orthapaedic elbow supports, we had a solid platform for the miniature cameras.
We covered the gig with 5 cameras in total: 2 roving cameras, 1 static, and the 2 ‘lipstick’ arm cameras that were wired into tape recorders at the back of the stage. The trickiest part was getting the cameras on and off Jon’s arms whilst he continued to play as his set is more or less continuous..
The ‘post production’ on this video was unorthodox: All analogue and all in-camera.
We were really keen on making a gritty, abstract performance video. So we set to work with magnets, screwdrivers, VHS tapes and a host of other techniques: We made an initial edit and played this back through a £3 TV we picked up at the local market, and ‘manipulating’ it with a screwdriver allowed us to flutter and flicker the image on screen. We’d also bought an industrial strength magnet and used that to distort and twist the picture on itself. We made several runs through the track in this way before playing everything out to VHS (with obligatory stomping and scrunching).
This effectively gave us a new set of footage to make a tailored, grunged-up edit of the original piece.
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