While there is a real dearth of music video programming in Ireland right now, music videos continue to flourish online. Here are some great examples of music video creativity which deserve some time with your eyes and ears.
The Takeaway Show -Vincent Moon invites indie artists and bands to sing a few songs acoustically in the streets of Paris which he shoots and posts on the internet. The result has been some stunning performances from Bon Iver scaring tourists on the streets of the city, Arcade Fire playing in an elevator and Yeasayer playing on a train.
Kutiman - An Israeli musician has taken clips of people playing along to songs on Youtube and has mashed them up to the point where these disparate musicians are now a band playing along to one single song.
Chairlift’s Evident Utensil – Stunning use of a new technique known as pixel-morphing which apes poor internet video streams to brilliant effect.
Also used by Kanye West.
Fever Ray – Two stunning atmospheric videos for Swedish artist Karin Dreijer’s solo project
If I Had a Heart
Loads more in the read more.
When I Grow Up
Radiohead’s House of Cards – The world’s first music video made solely of 3D images of objects, shapes including the band. No cameras or lighting was used in the video.
Halfset Visual DVD – A specially commissioned DVD of visuals accompanied Halfset’s Choice-nominated album Another Way of Being There. Four of the videos are on the band’s MUZU channel.
Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal – Old school animation techniques make this video a winner.
It Hugs Back’s Now + Again – An intricate example of large-scale stop motion with walls of moving Tetris blocks.
Five great (and new) Irish music videos:
1. Fight Like Apes – Tie Me Up In Jackets by Eoghan Kidney
2. Grand Pocket Orchestra - Ballet Shoes by Luke Franklin and Deirdre O’Toole.
3. The Blizzards – The Reason by Wyld Stallions
4. Cap Pas Cap – We Are Men by Sam Boyd
5. Sarsparilla – The Count by Feargal Brennan
Fri, Mar 20, 2009
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