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New Video: The 44th Annual Chicago International Film Festival Trailer

( Music andoriginals andvideo )

This is the trailer for the 44th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, which is happening now. I did the music and Ken Nordine did the film design and voiceover. The trailer plays before each movie at the festival.

New Video + Music: The Ginger Virus

I made a new video: It’s 2012. President Palin has been unable to stop the collapse of the global economy. The catastrophic Ginger virus has the ability to spread between humans and computers alike. It has taken over the world bank databases and it produces devastating isolation among its human hosts. This was a story […]

Why has no one made a modern Cinématographe yet?

( Gear andmisc andoriginals andphotography andvideo )

In the late 1800s, French inventor Léon Bouly made a device called a Cinématographe (Cinematograph) that could both function as a film camera and a video projector. So you could go out and shoot, bring the camera inside, invite the friends over, and project your movie. How cool is that? Modern digital projectors are getting […]

New Youtube Videos – part 2

( Music andoriginals andvideo )

I’m redesigning my front page but meanwhile here are some more videos from the past couple months. These are more orchestrations of Persichetti, Bartók and Faith rescored to a popular film: Rural Games   Night Discovery Both pieces were performed by members of the Chicago Civic Orchestra and conducted by Cliff Colnot.

New Youtube Videos – part 1

( Music andnotation andoriginals andvideo andwii )

Here are some new videos of work I’ve done. I’m trying to think of ways of altering the original videos that I’m rescoring so that they seem fresh again. Here is another original video: One idea I had was to overlay the video with an inset of the recording session and a scrolling score: I […]

How to Make a DIY Music Staff Roller Stamp

( diy andGear andoriginals andvideo )

Here are instructions on how to make a Music Staff Roller Stamp, a rolling ink stamp you can use to quickly draw a staff onto paper for jotting down musical ideas. You can get all the hardware for less than $10 and it only takes about 2 minutes to make. Materials: 1 brass door hinge […]

Three things I’d like to see on Netflix

( misc andvideo )

As a new Netflix user, here are a couple things I’d like to see: Sort queue by preference automatically. Like, I’d like newest releases on top and the classics on the bottom for when my queue is almost empty. I’d also like stuff like documentaries towards the bottom unless I specify otherwise. RSS feeds of […]

Translations – Newest score on Youtube

( Music andoriginals andvideo )

I thought I would also post my newest video here so it would get picked up by my blog feed. I’m now attending Columbia Chicago’s Music for the Screen graduate program, and am loving it. For our music and drama final project, we were asked to score music that would be performed live along with […]

Johnny Lee’s wiimote head tracking is even cooler

( diy andvideo andwii )

Johnny Lee‘s latest wiimote hack, tracking your head position and alternating a 3D display accordingly, is even cooler: I installed the software and it gave me a “FishtankVR has encoundered a problem and needs to close” error, but that was fixed by installing the DirectX SDK. I can get the program to work just by […]

Rip MP3s from youtube online

I don’t know why the MAFIAA (MPAA, RIAA, etc) is so vehement about eradicating mp3s from the interent but then allowing all kinds of music on youtube, but it’s trival to download the FLV from youtube for listening and watching later, to convert it to other formats, or to strip the audio into mp3 for […]