Howdy Folks.

It's been a while since we released a videoclip. Sadly I crashed and burned miserably on my last three attempts. I have a half built robot, some paper cut outs and a polite refusal-for-filming from a particular location. 

ARGH! 

Ok fine, so I cant shoot anything outside, in a place, with people.

Or cameras.

Or props.

Or the Band.

Right. Fine.

Ok computer old buddy, it's just you and me.

Er..

Um.

I wondered if I could make a simple visualisation of one of our songs, so I started doing some research into Music Visualisation and found Much Heap Cool Stuff.

This is a visualisation of vivaldi courtesy of Stephen Malinowski, and his  Music Animation Machine (spotted this on brainpickings.org)

(CLICK THE FULL SCREEN OPTIONS IN THE CLIPS FOR MAX COOLNESS :-)

From scientific to the artistic, this is the amazing work of Matthias Müller

I have been working though his playlist and the stuff is incredible.

Music Visualisation - Georges Bizet: 'Habanera' from Steven Harding on Vimeo.

If you, Dear Reader, like so many folk, have an itunes or winamp or Windows Media player, you can activate or download little add-ons that spin graphics out in time with your favourite tunes. It's a world of wonder we live in.

I have no idea what this could be used for in one of our clips, but it really has me intrigued. Yep, I like shiny things :-)