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Imagine music and video playing a game together. And telling stories at the same time. That’s what it’s like to experience a performance by audio-visual collective Origamibiro.

The collaborative trio merge found objects, unorthodox contraptions, multi instrumentalism and persistence of vision to create an atmosphere both nostalgic and otherworldly.

Together, musicians and producers Tom Hill and Andy Tytherleigh and video artist The Joy of Box make connections between seemingly unrelated elements and create a world that plays the scale of human emotions.

With atmosphere oozing from their fingertips, it’s no wonder the Dublin Fringe Festival described Origamibiro as "undoubtedly the most original offering of the fringe calendar"

The new Origamibiro album - Shakkei - has now been co-released between Abandon Building Records in the US, Denizen Recordings here in the UK and p*dis in Japan.

The new Origamibiro album Shakkei is available to buy online now. Go here for download:
itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shakkei/id451478877
Go here for physical copy:
amazon.co.uk/Shakkei-Origamibiro/dp/B005DOCJES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323687559&sr=8-1

Shakkei sees Origamibiro’s music expand into new directions. This album also marks a significant point in our evolution as Origamibiro officially becomes a full blown audio-visual collective.

Download our Quad Time Single Release for free featuring remixes from Leafcutter John, Joseph Minadeo, Soil and Water, Juxtaphona and Low In the Sky as well as the Quad Time video.
Go here to download: origamibiro.com/page17.htm

Finally watch out for the full length Shakkei remix album featuring remixes by Plaid, ISAN, Remote Viewer, Set In Sand, Upward Arrows, Melodium, Calika, Offthesky, Last Man on Mars and many more. Due out in spring 2012.

thejoyofbox.co.uk
origamibiro.com

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  • mach v plus 1 year ago
    I can't recommend this highly enough - it exceeds all expectations. I am wetting my self in anticpation of the new ORIGAMIBIRO lp. They rule. They rock. And we are mere dust in their awesome shadow, dancing the glimpses of light from the Joy of Box. 100/10. FTMFW,YO!
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  • John Rixon 1 year ago
    Amazing!! Bravo!
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  • Sam Carrington 1 year ago
    11/10
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  • ineaux 1 year ago
    mind.

    blown.
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  • Andy Digitonal 1 year ago
    breathtaking and one of those contenders for the "I wish I'd thought of that" prize.
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  • thetobykennedy 1 year ago
    Good work fellas, please remember my Pork & Mango Stew when you're superstars... x
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  • Aude Rrose 1 year ago
    amazing project! i was so touched when i saw it both time in paris! hope to meet you somewhere again!! tell me if you come in berlin! xx
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  • Claxomere 1 year ago
    What a great experience !! Love it. Feel it.
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  • Charlie North 1 year ago
    Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!
    Thank you for expressing the contents of my head in this fantastic use of audiovisuals.
    Seriously. Please don't stop, the world a better place for this kind of work. Well, mine is anyway!! ;-)
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  • Joe Moya plus 1 year ago
    Way Cool
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  • Sasha Nevolin 1 year ago
    Hi! We are letting you know that we added your wonderful video to our collection at lookva.tv
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  • Frozenturkey 1 year ago
    amazing!! perfect combination, great work.
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  • Giant Sighs 1 year ago
    Great music!
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  • FORWARD 1 year ago
    Perfect match in music and visuals. Great chords work. Nice warm sensation at the end. Congratulations from sunny Costa Rica!
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  • Joshua Bond 1 year ago
    This is amazing, I love it!
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  • simonleibe 1 year ago
    Amazing.
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  • Simon Oliver 1 year ago
    Nicely done chaps ... looping video real time ... really clever!
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  • Otto Bulut 1 year ago
    Very well done! Dreamlike.
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  • Alexander Buhr 1 year ago
    was comming from a bleh nightshift. i saw your video and heared their music. and all was good! :´)

    wonderful.
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  • The Joy of Box 1 year ago
    Thanks everyone for your amazing comments! We're so chuffed that this vid has had such a fantastic and unprecedented response. Thank you those who embedded the vid too- it really helps us to get around. I hope you'll keep watching this space as we've got plenty more to come over the next months.

    All the best

    The Joy of Box
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  • Steve Flak's 1 year ago
    Very Good Experimental session ! Love'it :)
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  • schoschie 1 year ago
    I like this!
    Why did you open up the Fender Rhodes? To show the inner workings?
  • Calogero Mira 1 year ago
    I do not know. Slow relaxing music.
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  • The Joy of Box 1 year ago
    the rhodes looked more interesting that way. glad you like it schoschie
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  • Exit Languages 1 year ago
    Absolutely brilliant! Loved it.
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  • langustart plus 1 year ago
    Круть
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  • spylabs plus 1 year ago
    i don`t know even how to describe this.
    SUPERB!
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    very cool posted at the curious brain
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  • Paula deVegh 1 year ago
    <3'd it!! Bravo!!
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  • Thank you, this is a great pleasure if this performance on Vimeo, although it is not right.
    I could even live during the festival VisionSonic 2009 Paris where I was their technical manager.
    Work has absolutely see.
    Thank you gentlemen ORIGAMIBIRO
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  • Sures Kumar TS 1 year ago
    great work guys...
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  • Rexo Otaegui 1 year ago
    Hermoso :)
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  • Chenghuai WANG 1 year ago
    Love that song, any idea where to buy or download?
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  • The Joy of Box 1 year ago
    There will be a new album coming out very shortly. Go to origamibiro.com/page4.htm for a sneak preview and more biro music
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  • DIGIMIND plus 1 year ago
    Amazing Music, Visuals, Idea... Congrats!
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  • sam spreckley 1 year ago
    brilliant ;)
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  • Matthew Crawford 1 year ago
    Great performance. Great ideas. Great sound. Bravo! I'm interested to know how long this performance was? It seems there are some edits - some instruments get put down or picked up faster than would seem possible. But I'm happy to be proven wrong! As a music geek, I'm also interested to know more about what gear you're using...
  • The Joy of Box 1 year ago
    Hi Matthew
    Thanks for watching and commenting-really glad you like the vid. As far as music gear goes its pretty much everything you see in the vid-Tom and Andy base everything around their boss rc50 loop pedals, Andy also has a kaoss pad, Tom has a contact mic on the end of his behringer mixer for some percussive sounds and a couple of old sm58 type mics for the typewriter and the paper loops. If that doesnt cover it let me know what else you'd like to know and I will more specifically elaborate for you. As far as the edits question go- read the next comment below and hopefully that will satisfy
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  • Paolo Tonon 1 year ago
    Brilliant but the music IMHO is not live performed but studio mix.
  • The Joy of Box 1 year ago
    Hey Paolo
    Thanks for watching and glad you like the vid. Hopefully I can help both you and Matthew above if I tell you a bit more about the shoot.
    We shot in a gallery for two days- first day for setup, rehearsals and first live take and the second day for more live takes. We went with the take that felt right (it was Day 2 take 2 as quoted at the start of the vid) and then put it through Final Cut for edit and grade and Logic for mixing/mastering. However, the actual take was 15 minutes long which we felt might have lost some people so we cut it down which was actually quite difficult to maintain a good music shape and keep everything making sense and feeling right and sequential in the visual edit-hence the slightly elastic time/space edit continuum So it was performed live and recorded live but it was edited to make it shorter.
    Hope that makes sense

    The Joy of Box
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  • Lukas Bulevicius 1 year ago
    Hey,

    If you can please answer, what kind of camcorder did you used which was pluged to the projector. =)
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  • Lanternativa 6 months ago
    Just...awesome!
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