After blogging about my work on it here many times, Tafubar‘s Changeability has finally become available from Lemongrassmusic. You can read all about it and find purchase links here. I wish Tafubar much success with his debut release.
To coincide with the release of the album, this very fun video for the track The Man Who Had Bad Dreams has just become available, too. Gotta love that baby/pig/monster!
I’ve just finished the video I’ve been working on for my track Freedom Zen with Chang Jui-chuan. The track is off the CABACA album (more info and download links here) which has just also become available on CD Baby for those who want to support this and possible future collaborations by buying a copy of the CD.
I wanted Jui-chuan’s lyrics to play the starring role in the video, so I “textified” CC licensed still images I found on flickr, with the help of visual keywords that Jui-chuan provided me with. I animated the images in AfterEffects, and mixed them with some blue-screen footage I shot with a Xacti CG65 camcorder. I drew some images with blue permament marker and Emily kindly wrote the traditional and simplified characters for me. To save time, I rendered some sections and backgrounds online with animoto.
There’s a link to watch the video in high quality on the song’s YouTube page. The video is also available on Vimeo and there’s a link to download the original 150MB .wmv-file.
Unfortunately I have no pics from when we recorded Chris Bailey’s guitar for Freedom Zen, but here are Chuang Tyng-Ruey’s photos from the recording session in Taipei where we recorded Jui-chuan’s vocals and Bobo on the drums.
I learned about animoto.com yesterday – someone had used one of my CC licensed tracks in their video and it looked intriguing. So, I thought I’d try my hand myself.
Here’s an unreleased track, Distant Towns, after the Animoto treatment. The images are from my trip to Sapporo to attend the iCommons Summit – most of them from Moerenuma Park.
*** UPDATE ***
The track has since been released under the title Faraway Places on the Stone Bell EP.
My good friend Viba in Taipei just did this cool acoustic mix of my track Easy featuring Sonja V. Download it for free from the link below. And do remember to check out Viba’s music, too!
I’m mixing the last two tracks for Tafubar, bringing the total tally of mixes for Tafu up to 28. It’s been quite an epic job, but with the end in sight I have to admit that I’ve really enjoyed the experience and have learnt a lot in the process. Tafu’s album (now entitled Changeability) will be released on the Lemongrassmusic imprint soon, but the collaboration has also yielded features on five new compilation albums: