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Ennio Morricone’s Grammy Award

Feb 262008

I haven’t posted an update in a while because I have been way too busy working on Michael Hardie‘s new record, however many things have happened since I started recording that record back in December in good ol’ Texas.Most notably TWO (not one!) of the tracks from the Sony Classical CD ”We All Love Ennio Morricone” were nominated for a Grammy Award in the same “Best Rock Instrumental Performance” category (which might sound a little strange since the album came out on Sony Classical, but whatever).

Metallica and Bruce Springsteen were the two artists whose tribute to Ennio on this great CD were nominated and ultimately Springsteen‘s song snatched the award from Rush, Satriani, Vai and Metallica themselves. The full list of nominees and winners can be seen here.

Unfortunately these two were not the tracks I was involved in (I recorded and mixed the track featuring Eumir Deodato and Daniela Mercury), nevertheless I feel honored to have participated in such a great tribute record and in paying tribute to such a grand composer and I want to wish Morricone all the best for an Award that is thoroughly deserved!

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Feb 262008

I recently mixed a song for “The Desert Mothers”, a project by west coast musician Spencer Critchley. This song was recorded and mixed using exclusively the eSession.com service with musicians from everywhere in the country submitting their tracks online. I too received the files and submitted my mixes online.

An article published in O’Reilly Digital Media by Spencer Critchley himself describes the entire process and highlights the advantages of the eSession platform.

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/12/13/esession-online-recording-for-all.html

Mentions of me are on page 7 and 8.

The finished product is also available for listening and purchase at The Desert Mothers‘ website. You can buy a download of the track or you can buy an enhanced CD (including instrumental and ac-cappella mixes, chord charts, lyrics and art) from CDBaby.com

Akino Kodoh film exhibition in Tokyo

For those of you in Tokyo, NY-based Japanese artist Akino’s first solo exhibit “KiyaKiya” is being held at Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo from Oct 11 to Nov 12.

Her beautiful drawings can be seen in a new animation movie with music by John Zorn and I actually worked on the music and the sound design for this film with Zorn.

The present exhibition includes Kondoh’s new animation work “KiyaKiya” as
well as drawings, oil paintings and sketches. The term “KiyaKiya” comes from
the old Japanese expression “mune ga kiyakiya suru.” Kondoh first
encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko’s “Introduction to the collection of
girls”in the chapter written about “childhood experiences.” This expression,
which describes “an enigmatic, nostalgic, disturbing feeling,” or an
impression of “deja-vu”, is at the origin of the “KiyaKiya” series.

In the animation, a girl is performing “kamishibai” (a traditional Japanese
picture-story show). When the artist noticed the time gap between the front
and the back of the illustration cards (the episode of the story the
audience is listening to is written on the back of the previous card; that
is to say there is a 1 page difference between the front and the back of the
“kamishibai” cards) she says she felt the possibility of a different
dimension hidden right behind the everyday life.

Three worlds simultaneously develop in the work. The same girl, who exists
in the three of them, lives all three different times. These tracks curve
slowly, eventually colliding and switching directions and she continuously
circle these orbits in an endless repetition.

In the present exhibition, you will experience a uneasy and nostalgic
feeling, as if you had long forgotten an important something and were about
to remember it. Some memory locked down in your heart might very well
resurface.

At the exhibition, her first catalog “KiyaKiya” will be presold at the
gallery.

Title:Akino Kondoh Sketch Collection “KiyaKiya”
Book design:Bunpei Yorifuji
Release Date:2011/10/25
ISBN:978-4-904292-16-7
Product Dimensions:deformed A5/paper back/single-side/4 color/rounded
corners
Page:402page
Price:2,300JPY(no tax included)

It’s the first catalog by KONDOH Akino
with 200 sketches for new animation “KiyaKiya”.
Book designed by very popular designer Bunpei Yorifuji.
recreated original drawings with 4 color on a sheer paper
is beautifully overlapped as one book.

Exhibition information
KONDOH Akino “KiyaKiya”
October 11 (tue) - November 12 (sat), 2011 (closed on Sun., Mon. & Holidays)
Opening Reception: October 11 (tue): 18:00-20:00

Mizuma Art Gallery
2F Kagura Bldg., 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843 JAPAN
tel: +81.3.3268.2500/fax: +81.3.3268.8844
http://mizuma-art.co.jp

http://mizuma-art.co.jp/gallery_info/index_e.html

KiyaKiya
2010-2011
single channel animation video
6 min. 39 sec.
Courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery

Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha

Ennio Morricone’s Grammy Award

Marc Urselli in O’Reilly Digital Media

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