The Designis.ms blog recently made a post showing the work of Vincent Moon and his work doing, “Take Away Shots,” where he films bands performing on-location. The style of filmmaking is very similar to that of Cinéma vérité, where what appears on screen is largely unaltered from how it occurred. The audio is usually captured [...]
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John Kary and Tony Ontiveros recently shot a live video of the band dredg on their stop at The Riot Room in Kansas City, Missouri. The show has been made freely available in its entirety both on DVD and FLAC/MP3 Download. Check out a few samples from the show! DVD Torrent Download DVD Artwork Download [...]
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I wrote this post in late January 2008, but it was lost in my archive of saved posts that were once started but never finished. I had some extra time recently and finished the review. I recently picked up the new album from The Mars Volta called “The Bedlam in Goliath.” After grabbing it from [...]
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Sigur Ros have posted their feature-length concert film on YouTube for free viewing in its entirety. You can view the entire film here. (PS: It’s about 90-minutes long.) Some might say, yay, great, free! But if you saw the HD trailer I talked about earlier, the YouTube video just can’t compete with the real deal. [...]
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Many of you are probably wondering what happened to the concert taping guide I began last fall. I was in debate when I first started the guide, whether to make it a blog series or to write it as a more in-depth e-book. Since starting it, I realized I wasn’t going into as much detail [...]
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While 2007 CD sales were down 14% from 2006, digital downloads were up 50%. Record labels continue to struggle to develop new distribution models that take advantage of the digital revolution. Over the last year, fans have shown they are willing to sink money into digital intellectual property. The success of digital audio in 2007 [...]
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Rolling Stone recently ran an article called The Death of High Fidelity: In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever. The article puts the buzz of “The Loudness War” of the audio enthusiasts into a mainstream magazine. While there have been plenty of articles already published in more audio-enthusiasts magazines, this article [...]
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If you haven’t heard of the band Sigur Ros, they make some of the most beautiful music. Hailing from the beautiful countrysides of Iceland, their music itself provokes visual imagery. Listening to their music is like a film for the ears. The band recently did a small unannounced tour around Iceland, playing small towns all [...]
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Capturing great quality video at a concert is more difficult than setting up a camera wherever you can find space and shooting. You have to navigate around the sea of people, find safe spots to setup your cameras and keep the drunk guy without his shirt on from spilling his beer on you after telling [...]
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One of the most important aspects of a live concert is the sound quality. Whether it’s the fluidity and balance of the mix that your ears perceive at the show, or in our case, the accurate reproduction of that sound in the 1′s and 0′s of your recording. In Part 2 of this guide on [...]
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With the release of Emery’s “I’m Only a Man” today, featuring a Bonus DVD and 5 Live Acoustic tracks produced by Titus Films, it’s like having another child. Not that I currently have any (ever…?), but I can bet it’s like seeing your son or daughter walk across the stage at graduate. All posterity aside, [...]
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We are proud to help announce the release of Emery’s new record, “I’m Only a Man” available today on Tooth & Nail Records. Titus Films had the privilege of producing the Bonus DVD for the Special Edition CD that includes a 40-minute making-of documentary with the band in the studio (produced by Moonrunner Pictures), along [...]
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