Segue

Just a quick post from Hong Kong, where it’s hot and humid and we eagerly await the arrival of a bunch of guys from Essex. Or, in other words, one of the world’s leading electronic live acts. Aside from them, it is a city deserving of attention. I’ve enjoyed simply wandering among the chaos, recording some audio samples, and have had a few interesting track ideas pour out back in the hotel at night. The city smells like something. I’m the tallest person here. I got the nickname of “pacman”. I walk around and eat everything in site. I’m off to an arcade to fight Gundam robots. I’m feeling electric.

I finally got around to doing a proof of concept test of a timelapse animation over the weekend. Hooking a Canon 450D DSLR digital still camera up to a Macbook, and setting the remote capture software to grab a frame every 10 seconds, I had the intention of roughly capturing a recording session. Instead I just quickly tidied up the studio, watched some Underworld videos on Youtube, posted on Twitter, and for the breifest of moments actually worked on a track in Ableton. Dumping the photos into Vegas, I knocked up this rough timelapse video. This is my first time testing this out, though our VJ collaborator Jaymis has done quite a few interesting timelapses over the years. I can’t wait to try this out in Hong Kong in a couple of weeks.

The track snippet in this video is a rough mix for a remix I did for Vitreous. The track is called “Pine”, and will be revisited for a fresh mixdown before being signed off and released shortly. More on that soon. Not in the “will tell you when we can” mysterious sense, but in the “we don’t actually know” realistic sense.