shot one of the final scenes of the agnes kain clip last night. it was a full size rear projection shoot exactly like the mighty boosh just with less crimping.

a few little scenes left to shoot and edit and then that’s a wrap. it’s pretty exciting to see how the clip’s turning out, especially seeing how it’s evolved from the original idea. i’m animating the clip “in camera” with no effects in post. it moves a lot of the problems that usually need to be solved from inside a computer out into the real world where they’re easier to deal with. mainly because in the real world every single problem can be solved with gaff tape. ryan the birdman agrees.

late last year i picked up a second hand copy of the playstation2 music software “MTV music generator 2″.  i was surprised by a few of the quirks i discovered, most importantly it’s ability to sample with a singstar mic(!).  couple this with it’s nifty little sample editor that lets you trim, reverse, filter etc. and it’s stepped up to play a significant role in the recording of my next album.  so i thought i’d tell you, the intertron, all about it and it’s glorious quirkiness.

so apparently this game had a usb sampling dongle you could buy to plug in your diskman or walkman or horse or what ever we were using back then.  it was basically a usb audio interface for your playstation, which is pretty cool, but you’re unlikely to have one just lying around.  lucky for us, the software confuses the singstar mic dongle for the sampling kit which turns your ps2 into a sampler sequencer… and a pretty capable one. Continue reading →