The Face of The South
The Oxford American Magazine's new Web Extras installment, THE FRESH EYE OF HENRYK FANTAZOS, prompts us to do two things:
Show off Lucky Dog Audio new media work.
Post a picture of a painting called "Okra Smugglers."
Produced here at Lucky Dog Audio Post, the "Face of the South" slideshow features one of our eerier pieces of custom music. We recorded an electric guitar and a bowed upright bass and then dropped the mix into an IXI slicer to create the ambient sounds that accompany Henryk Fantazos's surreal southern paintings.
Fantazos is a fascinating painter. For the most part, the images in the slideshow address rural settings in a painterly style desribed as “Proto-Renaissance.” Originally from Poland, Fantazos "painted his way out of Poland, to France, to Germany, then to New York City as a Fellow in the Kosciuszko Foundation." After moving to Hillsborough, North Carolina, Fantazos "announced he would paint the 'Face of the South,' a face he saw disappearing."
Click here to view the slideshow.
South County Tulsa
Here's some more recent work, this time another collaborative custom music project with Sellout Music.
For this :30 TV spot, the client was looking for something minimal and "hip." In particular, they wanted an electronic arrangement based around an acoustic instrument. Sellout came up with the meat and bones of this piece, a plaintive, delayed piano figure that totally sets the tone for the stark, lonesome city shots. From there we messed things up. We slaved the piano track in Ableton Live to Pro Tools and cranked the Pro Tools tempo down to around 80 bpm. This forced the Ableton track into all sorts of fits. The piano track stuttered and glitched as it tried to match the slower tempo. From there we added a beat deconstructor to add some color to our shuddering piano track. After all that processing we had a handful of glitchy sounds for our mix. Aside from the piano processing, we also used Ableton along with Reason to write our rhythm and bass tracks.
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