tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11255688812314939342024-02-06T19:29:26.670-08:00I, MunrobotI, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-69855507377876886672011-10-20T19:05:00.000-07:002011-10-20T19:22:16.361-07:00Picnic on the moonAngus: I'm entering a film festival called 'straight 8' where the rules are:<br /><br />- you make a short film on a super 8 camera<br />- you can't edit anything- every shot is final<br />- the festival develops the film, so you can't see what it looks like until it's premiere in London <br /><br />It's about what people thought the future would be like when they were younger. Can you write some music of the future, whilst pretending you're in 1970? <br /><br />Munro: I am in 1970<br /><br />Angus: Good<br /><br />Munro: Just make sure you spell my name right<br /><br />Angus: I make no promises<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30028367?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="320" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-75791591278301780902011-02-23T18:03:00.000-08:002011-02-23T20:24:40.124-08:00The Canberra Curse continuesA good buddy of mine realised I needed help to come up with something interesting to write about on my blog, so he helped me drop a massive amp stack on my foot after a gig last friday. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPF8htrmnFThTzHR_4LSeHcUNwhRCs0XtvP1OnA7xForeMbhN_m4ezQ9VVD_hGw7TxBL6BWDWfsjhhJiCTo9RoGhcuw25EtsDAMnm6v3h9snBlsCAVz04LlFfa7alGFZhrp8e4n85Ekw_m/s1600/foot+winner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPF8htrmnFThTzHR_4LSeHcUNwhRCs0XtvP1OnA7xForeMbhN_m4ezQ9VVD_hGw7TxBL6BWDWfsjhhJiCTo9RoGhcuw25EtsDAMnm6v3h9snBlsCAVz04LlFfa7alGFZhrp8e4n85Ekw_m/s320/foot+winner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577106443803853394" /></a> Jokes on him... I was just about to blog about this short film I'm scoring.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="400" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-eD2JzkFnaM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-85514268206202189042010-07-16T05:10:00.000-07:002010-07-23T04:13:26.771-07:00Tegan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03l0S24J4wguX5Kig8VXDVXYHVHqBoN4aOEiBRBNDZdVrxsDHHkTyw8ZoaPRlaTvN5H4cSElm5v11iixkfytFvblqett7D4zgexPvDB73jPnmS4dUk37jJceUkORVdApgJ0s9OgoLXSCl/s1600/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03l0S24J4wguX5Kig8VXDVXYHVHqBoN4aOEiBRBNDZdVrxsDHHkTyw8ZoaPRlaTvN5H4cSElm5v11iixkfytFvblqett7D4zgexPvDB73jPnmS4dUk37jJceUkORVdApgJ0s9OgoLXSCl/s320/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494477336575984722" border="0"></a><br />After a year and a half of a house that can't be heated, old timey sing alongs, big screen movies projected onto the walls, zero privacy, the American Office, Southpark, and one Sister act themed party... the church is no more.<br /><br />You can only live with your girlfriends brother in a house with no walls for so long. A purpose built echo chamber designed for public speaking- before the days of microphones. A house where you can hear a doona ruffle at the slightest movement. <br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hkWz69JAaJ5-SWuzzs_ButBrrGmBqXjwK665WhaDC6nhvrLgP6sPDiSifaaqHIDf48_WclR98PNNLRDr8Bk5dq99i3JKTzbl9MdKD9HRF03XXqcXiUnv1F9oP2oW9RANu6bwDdpSEVHi/s1600/Copy+of+old+friends.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hkWz69JAaJ5-SWuzzs_ButBrrGmBqXjwK665WhaDC6nhvrLgP6sPDiSifaaqHIDf48_WclR98PNNLRDr8Bk5dq99i3JKTzbl9MdKD9HRF03XXqcXiUnv1F9oP2oW9RANu6bwDdpSEVHi/s320/Copy+of+old+friends.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494508667270819906" /></a><br />So I give thanks to my housemates who put up with me while I hijacked the lounge room for days at a time to record the music for this short film. Who, like all the other musicians on this project, played for nothing but sandwiches... but unlike the others, probably cleaned up the mess I made making the sandwiches, and then cooked me dinner.<br /><br />Most people would've said that the time we could last in the church was roughly a year and a half shorter than we managed. But somehow we rocked it. So it is with fond farewells, I say 'Goodbye Church... Hello Moonlight Motel'. <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='400' height='320' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx2M0eE7tLfb8zZU1Zno4l8D1DwXbPHFcQt4qqp768Dnr4o9iW_IyZD5znCjuf2POnFs12hQMD7fkr0DSbx0Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eormedia.com.au/films/teganthevegan.htm">Tegan The Vegan</a> will be released late 2010...I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-29101878274243107222010-03-07T21:04:00.001-08:002010-07-23T01:03:36.192-07:00Chimps are not Chumps, but we areIt's finally here...<br /><br /><object width="400" height="320"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9693124&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=6B686D&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9693124&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=6B686D&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="320"></embed></object><br /><br />I read an article last year explaining that since the global financial crisis, there is a trend for companies to cut costs in advertising. They now run competitions where you, the everyday punter, are given the chance to come up with the jingle/ ad/ slogan in exchange for a big prize (remember the i snack 2.0 debacle of 2009?). It's a brilliant marketing idea - it gets people talking about the brand, and can generate huge amounts of hype. Companies aren't claiming this idea is new - according to kraft - even the name Vegemite was chosen out of a hat in the 1920s! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizH2oWwsnimBsakiu9gdyc-UbxiplqMtEV0Qj55Y9H4pfH9udoOWByJB8hv1Z60MTIdhuwtdxNKZd_JGFWQLULY7CqlbtlW6Yf3tfxFgttsmQ9TCV1-Se3cxjZPGtmFkyVB2UcJ_G_64pb/s1600-h/double+stash.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizH2oWwsnimBsakiu9gdyc-UbxiplqMtEV0Qj55Y9H4pfH9udoOWByJB8hv1Z60MTIdhuwtdxNKZd_JGFWQLULY7CqlbtlW6Yf3tfxFgttsmQ9TCV1-Se3cxjZPGtmFkyVB2UcJ_G_64pb/s200/double+stash.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446123232174213202" /></a>Well, the Waif and I decided to enter one such competition, and ever since we lost it got me thinking...<br /><br />The competition we entered was to make a 2 min short film, promoting corporate responsability to the enviroment. The combined prize pool for the top 3 entries was $25,500. That is a huge amount of money, but when you consider that the company got to choose from countless entries with different concepts and visual styles etc...and now has 3 professional films they can use as promo, it isn't that much money. I'm pretty sure that a advertising company would charge a fair bit more for such a huge task.<br /><br />But lets try and be fair here. These competitions, as opposed to paying an advertising firm, does open the field up - giving people like us the opportunity to throw in our ideas and get them seen by people who would not take a meeting with us. It is democratising the industry, but in my mind, these competitions are still a cop out. <br /><br />Ads is one of the last strongholds for artists to make money, and this practice of running 'competitions' is further devaluing artists by getting lots of talented people to work for free. No other industry would fall for such a trick. In fact, I'd like to see how many professional accountants would get involved in a competition to do a companies tax. <br /><br />So to Ethical Investments Australia (which I do genuinely believe is a good company) I say, is your practice of running such a competition actually ethical, or have we indeed been ethical washed?<br /><br /><object width="400" height="265"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9693173&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9693173&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="265"></embed></object>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-72666067573383829842010-01-22T22:22:00.000-08:002011-10-20T20:08:37.155-07:00Heaven in GreenQuincy Jones says that 'A kind of Blue' is the greatest album ever. So I figure, if I mash up two Miles Davis tunes I'll have the new best song on my hands.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm0pai2RULxh1A3vDJk-dHPWX9MNuTJCZdOxj1zG8Oj5jfmn0TVrXTo0CZfqbbJCkhUVjojoRG8sU-Tc5x_u8x3QJjHqFLsAkECqWin779dTFdR0PGckOyU3MDo6jaF8HOXLbpN3PMvUH/s1600-h/miles+unhappy.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 183px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm0pai2RULxh1A3vDJk-dHPWX9MNuTJCZdOxj1zG8Oj5jfmn0TVrXTo0CZfqbbJCkhUVjojoRG8sU-Tc5x_u8x3QJjHqFLsAkECqWin779dTFdR0PGckOyU3MDo6jaF8HOXLbpN3PMvUH/s320/miles+unhappy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429824429312594338" /></a>This is a picture of Miles ...<br />he's not so sure he likes where this is heading.<embed src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" flashvars="audioUrl=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9132132/Heaven%20in%20Green" width="400" height="27" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br />My good friend <a href="http://www.10kindsofhandsome.com/">Mr Salmon Fish</a> helped me out with the mix.<br />Werd.I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-29775044019586770402009-12-16T21:02:00.000-08:002010-04-10T21:04:33.397-07:00Take 5 TeamI finally made it Mum.<br /><br />When i was a kid, there was the bus safe rap.<br />Then there was 'The Hyper-d, it's the place to be'.<br />And now, I've got the honor of the next generation of Canberran advertising raps aimed at children. <br />Life's pretty sweet...<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx3vV04xP8b2kBXgn2AM5kxEUlAodOfXLZZgu4dEa7TjYy0w0U75CykszJVUMXFE1eTbP2HDeJjolt9B-A-VA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-69372317093303032662009-10-27T04:27:00.000-07:002010-07-16T18:32:30.889-07:00Swoop (It's a Magpie)I was lucky enough to meet Sizzle Brat Waif - one of my favourtie mc's - at a local open mic night. We hit it off and wrote and recorded this jem in just 7 months. It's from her upcoming second debut album "Flute Salad"... <br /><br />Lookout!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlIoeL1IZNXWANtY4NYJ_SnrV4EudXOT_WA9G888shAu6JuDrLylMUIx0pHiUZOzvI2yhs5mb19sg12p8MxokRPdvWinUgBm85Qrrn-IzuJnveSmdqlpvVPp6nKvu8dP7BjzrW19SPNr5/s1600-h/Sizzle+Brat+Waif+small.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlIoeL1IZNXWANtY4NYJ_SnrV4EudXOT_WA9G888shAu6JuDrLylMUIx0pHiUZOzvI2yhs5mb19sg12p8MxokRPdvWinUgBm85Qrrn-IzuJnveSmdqlpvVPp6nKvu8dP7BjzrW19SPNr5/s400/Sizzle+Brat+Waif+small.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397246205863105266" /></a><br /><br /><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNzkzMzAwNzQ5MTgmcHQ9MTI3OTMzMDI2MzE1MiZwPTE4MDMxJmQ9Jmc9MSZvPWI4NGFkMTcwZmYxNTRkZWQ4MmNi/Y2ZhZDNlODExYzBk.gif" /><center><p style="visibility:visible;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://assets.mixpod.com/swf/mp3/mff-nintendo.swf" height="115" width="256" style="width:256px;height:115px"><param name="movie" value="http://assets.mixpod.com/swf/mp3/mff-nintendo.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="TL" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="flashvars" value="myid=60747187&path=2010/07/16&mycolor=507623&mycolor2=62984A&mycolor3=8ED0A0&autoplay=false&rand=0&f=4&vol=100&pat=0&grad=false"/></object><br><a href="http://www.mixpod.com/playlist/60747187" target="_blank"></p></center></a>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125568881231493934.post-68899815054690883982009-09-30T06:37:00.000-07:002009-10-25T05:30:30.283-07:00The Procussions: For All Your Hip-Hop NeedsThis page is for music I've made that doesn't have anything to do with Casual Projects, or singer songwriting stuff that may come about in the future.<br /><br />My first two videos are a tribute to one of my favourite hip-hop bands<br />- 'The Procussions', who broke up in the last couple of years. I got the feeling that they felt neglected by the hip-hop community (even though Crab harassed them to come to Australia on a weekly basis), and I always wanted to give something back to them. Also, I wanted to practice my film scoring. So - here is their single 'The Storm' re-scored to look like a home improvement ad.<br /><br /><object width="340" height="285"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fJzRt1Bx0wc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fJzRt1Bx0wc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object><br /><br />And here is another small section from the same film clip, re-scored as a sinister fantasy type of thing. It's written for a string quintet, a team of flutes and a gaggle of French hornists.<br /><br /><object width="340" height="285"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OjEfr3NMsAs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OjEfr3NMsAs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object>I, Munrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890748146756809471noreply@blogger.com0