Here’s a demo video of the Fairlight IIL from the early eighties. A time when the word, “Digitize” still meant something and samplers presented a bold new world of possibilities. If someone can point to a draw your own waveform softsynth, like the one in the video, I would be quite greatful.
It always amazes me how Daedelus can be so immersed in the popular electronic music scene and still produce wild soundscapes like this.
Daedelus “Righteous Fists of Harmony” from DestroyRockMusic Inc. on Vimeo.
The concept is a soundtrack for the boxer rebellion.
From brainfeeder:
After seventy years of China’s opium-related subjugation by Queen
Victoria and her allies, a force of resistance fighters — termed
“Boxers” by the British — rose to the challenge in 1898. Calling
themselves “The Righteous Fists of Harmony,” this secret society of
martial artists felt they held magical powers: they believed
themselves bulletproof, able to fly, and capable of raising the dead
(who would then fight alongside them). And so began the brief Boxer
Rebellion; three years later 100,000 Boxers had fallen, their magic
helpless against the cutting-edge machinery of war. The British
prevailed only to face ultimate defeat, as their empire rapidly
declined.Daedelus endeavors to compose a requiem for the end — of beliefs, of
lives, and of an era. This elegy for a bygone battle sheds light on
our own contemporary conundrum: will our faith in modernity be our
downfall? Are we blinded by this age of wonders, doomed to be
destroyed by our ingenious inventions? Although Daedelus’ music has
always juxtaposed organic and electronic elements, they war as never
before on “Righteous Fists of Harmony,” a portrait of a tumultuous era
that came crashing to a close.DAEDELUS – “Righteous Fists of Harmony” Tracklist:
BF006
23 MARCH 2010
Heavy Weight Vinyl / Digital1. An Armada Approaches
2. Tidal Waves Uprising
3. The Open Hand Avows
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn (featuring Laura Darling)
5. The Finishing of a Thing
6. Succumbing To (featuring Kid A)
7. Stampede Me (with Amir Yaghmai)
8. Fin De Siècle
A few weeks ago i featured some videos describing ambitious and ridiculous road projects, fictional and real. In the futuristic video– which featured some gems: like heated roadways and punchcard voting system for cars– there images of elevators taking cars to within a few feet of their high-rise office desks.
Someone in NYC decided now was future enough and built that building, but this one is for housing people not corporations. 200 Eleventh Avenue is a construction project in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood that puts a floor level garage attached to each apartment and reachable by elevator.
Fun stuff for those with at least 7 figures in their housing budgets.
This video provides a wonderful description of an early sampling based instrument. Every sound was recorded on a tape track and played in sync with the other track. The keys appear to control the tape heads. The instrument has since appeared on an impressive list of popular recordings for such a novel instrument.
Yes, what you see in this video is a violin, viola, cello, and bass glued together. It was created by Diego Stocco(twitter) and is featured in Guy Richie’s film Sherlock Holmes.
Enjoy.