Innovative Live Visuals from a Los Angeles Trio

This week I discovered WIFE; an amalgamation of live dance, visual projections and animations, and music. Their Thursday night show in Hollywood roused my attention, and furthered more web research, where I came across their latest piece, ‘The Grey Ones’. I recognized the music involved as Amon Tobin, who caused quite a stir when he recently toured Europe and North America, and loved the way it’s abstract nature came together with the very intelligent and unique projections. Add in the extra dimension of a choreographed live backdrop for these projections, and you have something very interesting and innovative.

From their artist statement:
“[WIFE] is the creation of Nina McNeely, Kristen Leahy, and Jasmine Albuquerque. Her three members are dancers, choreographers, teachers, editors, animators, and performers thriving in the underbelly of L.A subculture. She finds inspiration from myth, folklore, archetypes, and the subtleties of everyday human behavior. Influences include Jim Henson, Chris Cunningham, Akira Kurosawa, Kathy Rose, Wendy Carlos, Yayoi Kusama, Planningtorock, Aleister Crowley, her friends, and you.”

The Grey Ones is a piece that the group performed at the recent TEDx event in Southern California, which means we now have online video to share here at Media Match. Enjoy this all-in-one visual expo below…

All concepts and choreography created by WIFE
Dancers: Nina McNeely, Kristen Leahy, Zak Ryan Schlegel
Projections: Nina McNeely
Costumes: Lyndsea LaMarr & Seth Pratt
Music: Amon Tobin

by Lee Jarvis.

Held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard have once again joined together to host their 10th annual conference on the role of music in film and television. The event, on October 24-25, reaches out to all kinds of industry professionals, and anyone interested in agent jobs, composer jobs, director jobs, producer jobs, music supervisor jobs, songwriter jobs and many more.

Speakers at the conference include composers for blockbuster films The Fighter, The Hangover, and hit TV show Mad Men, as well as record label bosses and TV production company execs. Marketers and music supervisors will also share advice on how to connect your art with the right people. Outside of the keynote talks and panels, there are also roundtable discussions and cocktail parties to help people connect.

Panel topics include;
-TV Competition Shows and Their Music
-Real Time Critique: Music Supervisors
-Songwriters Turned Film/TV Composers
-Case Studies of Hit TV Shows and Their Music
-Case Study of Major Fall Films

Expect to learn a lot from the conference; not only how to get your songs into films, TV, commercials, sports programming, trailers and video games, but also how to make money from your placements. Hear about new projects from composers and music supervisors, and see how the film and TV business is evolving in other territories and countries.

For more info check out the Billboard website, and below you can view highlights of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard’s 2010 Film and TV Music Conference.

Readers interested in networking with TV and Film industry pros should also check out our very own Speed Networking event coming up on September 21st, also in Hollywood.


by Lee Jarvis.

This weekend, Chicago welcomes the third incarnation of CIMMfest. The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival is a weekend full of entertainment highlighting the crossover between film and song, punctuated with short documentaries, live concerts, panels, art exhibits, music videos and more. Musicians, indie filmmakers, producers, directors, students and enthusiasts from all backgrounds get the chance to mingle and enjoy works from a whole depth of like-minded folk.

“We’re really excited to bring together movies and music from all over the world to Chicago. CIMMfest is unique in its scope, from ethnographic films about Balkan folk songs to Mike Watt in concert, to video mashup DJs, to live musical accompaniments, and music from all over the map: Brit pop, hip hop, gospel, experimental, Americana, funk, industrial, and more.” says Josh Chicoine, CIMMfest Director. ” We aim to show our interconnectedness through the lens of film and music.”

The Festival sees 70 films being screened from over 20 countries, and includes 17 world, North American and US premieres. There are also free screenings at the Chicago Cultural Centre, a variety of afterparties at venues including Subterranean and Berlin, a Record Store Day celebration event at Big Star, and an event called Chicago Punk Night at Double Door.

Tickets for various screenings and events are available individually, via this CIMMfest page at Brown Paper Tickets, or you can purchase a Movie Pass, which lets you see all 30 of the films for one price of $45. Included with your ticket is a one-year subscription to Time Out Chicago magazine ($9.99 Value).

So, get out and about over the next three days and see and share as much of the festival as you can!

Fancy a quick preview? How about ‘Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then’….

2nd Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then trailer from Brent Green on Vimeo.

The story of a man who builds his cancer-stricken wife a magical house in a desperate act of love, accompanied by an all-star musical line-up. Self-taught animator Brent Green uses stop-motion photography to illuminate Leonard Wood’s doomed gesture. See it at WPAC, 2215 W. North Ave., Saturday, April 16 at 10:30pm.)


by Lee Jarvis.

Taking Woodstock is directed by Academy Award®-winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) with a screenplay by James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm), based on the book Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber.

It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber( played by Demetri Martin), a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbour’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

The film stars Demetri Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central) as Elliot Tiber, Emile Hirsch (Milk, Into the Wild), Liev Schreiber (Defiance) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake).

http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/taking_woodstock

http://www.facebook.com/TakingWoodstock

Release date: 28th August 2009

(original post // Thanks to Matt @ UK Music Jobs)