2010, stop motion animation, screensaver.

So glad to be able to share this!

We, and by we I mean isthis.gd, built a MIDI orchestra for Grey London and Brother from old computer junk. Photocopiers, scanners, fax machines, printers, hard drives, modems and the like.

We thought it'd be most fun to do it for real.

We were really inspired by Tristram Cary, James Houston, BD594 and other radical tinkerers. Making cold stuff warm is fun.

We found loads of old machines destined for landfill, took them to bits and reverse engineered them to make noises that we could control via MIDI.

Badman Will Cohen made an arrangement of Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' but the orchestra can play any MIDI arrangement, or indeed be performed live.

Maximum respect to Neil Mendoza, Marek Bereza, Will Cohen, Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith, Justin Pentecost, Mike Harrison, Mat Holloway, Jason Oakley and all at Partizan, Liat Wassershtrom, Ben Joffe, Tim Leask, Jack Ellis, Ozzie Pullin.

Awesome cinematography by Denzil Armour-Brown and Daniel Lowe. Tight edit by Ross Hallard.

Post and psychotherapy by Sheldon Gardner and time-based-arts.com

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Camera: Xarlee, cargocollective.com/xar_lee
Editing: David de Larrea
Music: Rob Costlow - Contemporary Piano - Bliss

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The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.
Narrated by Tom Waits.
Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual "Art + Film Gala" honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.

directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman (gosupermarche.com/)
edited by Max Joseph (maxjoseph.com/)
written by Gabriel Nussbaum (bankstreetfilms.com)
cinematography by Magdalena Gorka (magdalenagorka.com/)
& Henry Joost
produced by Mandy Yaeger & Erin Wright

Thank you to John Baldessari and his studio. (baldessari.org/)

Part of the exhibition Act / OUT, Onomatopee Eindhoven, June 2011. More info here: onomatopee.net/project.php?progID=7524e39275e1afc44467e1dc0b0e66ae