Doctor Who : SXSW

I am finally able to announce my SXSW show this year and it is totally great. I have been working with BBC America on a Doctor Who AV show. I will be playing a video remix set composed entirely from Doctor Who episodes from throughout history. This is one of my favorite TV Shows of all time and I have been buried in episodes for the past few weeks otherwise known as “total joy”.

Not only is Doctor Who a pioneering TV Show since 1963 but it has also pioneered in music making and generation of new sound effects that permeate our music today. The original theme by Ron Grainer and made by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was an exercise in electronic music pioneering. It’s sound has not dated as it took the world a while to catch up with Delia’s techniques of running multiple oscillators and turning faders up and down whilst adjusting the tape speed, something nowadays people automate on a computer.

I am having mad fun making this show and it will be a awesome journey through Doctor Who , a 50 year time travel in it’s self. The show will exist for one time only on the night of 9th March in Austin at BBC America’s event………….

Also last week Raymond Cusick, the designer of the Daleks, passed away… The mix will of course be Dalek heavy in his honor.

Avan Lava Remix

If you haven’t heard Avan Lava’s tearaway Disco Hit “It’s Never Over” check out the original video here. I loved it so much I asked if I could do a remix, and here is the result. The original is such a solid dancefloor track I thought why try to do that ? So, instead I went for some fast/slow dirty synth something or other. I pitched up the vocals so they sounded like the chipmunks and then figured why not do a punk cut up chipmunk video to match. Here is my video remix and the extended audio remix for your download pleasure. Also Avan Lava are headlining a show next weekend at Williamsburg Music Hall. So go check out the show described as “Prince, multiplied by six and jack-full of liquid-sex funk” with lasers too!!!!

Live Streaming Today

LIVESTREAM by eclecticmethod

Today at Noon Eastern Time I will be doing a live video dj stream from Brooklyn in this very window. Click this if you want to go through to live page and chat with other viewers : bit.ly/methodlive . This will be my last live stream show until 22nd March as next Friday I am getting married then Friday after I’m in Austin for SXSW and the friday after i’ll be in New Orleans. Heck maybe i’ll figure out a way to stream the New Orleans show or something.

Public Enemy

I LOVE Public Enemy. So I made this.

Input/Output Video Mixtape

Finally my YouTube account can take videos longer then 10 minutes so today I uploaded the Input/Output Video Mixtape that was previously on Dailymotion, Vimeo and my snid account. MP3_

MULTiPAD

iPadNY

Start spreading the news….. Not saying New York is the best city in the world, it’s just my favorite and has become my adopted home. So my latest video is a meta frame within a frame remix of New York itself. Fragments of classic New York movies are scratched, remixed and jammed around New York locations. Oliver Stone’s panning Manhattan shots are scratched up around Manhattan, Scorsese’s classic Brooklyn shots scratched around Brooklyn and Woody Allen’s view of Manhattan from Queens gets jammed from a Queen’s rooftop. The remix about town, about a town. Eclectic Method (EM) also enlisted the help of New Yorker J-Live to scratch up classic NY centric music videos from the Beastie Boys, Jay Z and others. J-Live is a long term EM collaborator and also one of the few humans who can scratch and rhyme at the same time.

New York video screengrabs

Self Generating Remix

Self Generating Art has long been an obsession of BRIAN ENO’s. He made the 77 Million Paintings installation, a self generating painting that is always changing and also his work on the KOAN generative music engine.

For the last few years I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a self generating remixer. Something that is generating a real time remix (both audio and video) from media the world is spewing onto the internet. COLDCUT had an app called “My Little Funkit” that would generate music to pre-defined rules and the user could move faders that would make choices as to how to music would develop. I thought this would be a fun idea in a self generating media remixer where someone could come in and choose less news more salacious media stories OR less EDM more hiphop. Also with more and more online videos coming with subtitles and automatic editing machine could be trying to construct remix sentences that make sense. The site SUBZIN already allows you to search films by their scripts and it will tell you exactly where a word or phrase occurs in a movie.

FRIDAYS, Noon to 1PM ESTearn time. LIVE STREAMING LIVE @ bit.ly/methodlive