rpm orchestra. "swoon"
A color-tinted film short featuring visuals from "Victory Is Our Business" (B&W, 1942), with studio-recorded music made 12/28/10.
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The Butterfly Circus - HD
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At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus discovers a man without limbs being exploited at a carnival sideshow, but after an intriguing encounter with the showman he becomes driven to hope…
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Yours Truly (excerpt, short film 2006)
Your Truly (short film 2006) I reckon Yours Truly is even stronger. I think because it had more of a linear story, so it works on more parts of my brain. The...
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It's Lonesome at Work
"It's Lonesome At Work"…his job is to run the machines that power the factory that makes the goods that modern people buy. Watch as he builds up steam and then keeps a very close eye on these massive machines.
A Stoney Lonesome, old-time, silent…
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rpm orchestra. 7.8.11
A surreal "Pop-Up Salvation Soup Kitchen" musical performance, in which RPM Orchestra entertains the crowd with an 11-minute set. During a brief intermission (not shown), L.A.-bound artist Vav Vavrek dishes out bowlfuls of haluski to hungry audience…
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rpm orchestra. 5.27.11 (live performance / VIDEO EDIT)
RPM Orchestra's live performance overlayed onto the video montage shown during the show. The performance memorialized The Great War and its passing from living memory into the pages of history with the recent death of Claude Choules, last surviving…
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rpm orchestra. 5.27.11
A 17-min live performance memorializing The Great War and its passing from living memory into the pages of history with the recent death of Claude Choules, the last WWI combat vet.
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RPM ORCHESTRA. 4.20.11
Striking up the shortwave radio, turntable, DIY electronics, amped found sound, and acoustic percussion - along with banjo and washboard - on a stage of reflective light and shadows. A live orchestra performance, from 4/20/11, at The Trunk Space…
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rpm orchestra. "the joy procession"
recontextualized marching band music. from the "afterglow" CD.
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rpm orchestra. "next exit: cokaygne"
The land of Cokaygne was a medieval mythical utopia of extreme luxury and ease where the harshness of peasant life did not exist - a fictional place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations. Music from the…
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Zen Noir
A nameless detective is called to investigate a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple, but his logical, left-brained crime-solving techniques are completely useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen. Gradually he finds himself drawn into a…
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rpm orchestra. "citadel"
rpm orchestra. "citadel" from Shake Some Dust on Vimeo.
A light/texture/motion study with ambient-glitch music. Original video footage includes Seed Pod interactive sculpture (by Joe O'Connell & Blessing Hancock @creativemachines.com) and building projections @ All Souls Procession (manymouths.org)
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rpm orchestra. "overeasy"
power-electronics square dance music. (...video for music incl. w rpm orchestra dieselpunks.org interview.)
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RPM Orchestra "plays it forward" with a new industrial-jazz single
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:30am 0 Comments 1 Favorite
Why release a (Radio Edit) version of RPM Orchestra's live 25-minute Pop-Up Salvation Soup Kitchen performance?
The original two-set live performance ran nearly 20 minutes all together. And that's not even counting the 7-minute intermission between sets, during which haluski was dished out (soup line style) to hungry audience members. Obviously, a performance of that…
Continue And the Orchestra Played On. As an Accidental Synchronicity Experiment.
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:55pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
RPM Orchestra held a live performance on May 27th, memorializing The Great War and its passing from living memory into the pages of history with the recent death of Claude Choules, last surviving WWI…
Continue KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps 1933-1945
Posted on July 28, 2010 at 3:26pm 2 Comments 0 Favorites
(30 mins)
An introduction to KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps 1933-1945. When completed, this 24 CD project will be the most comprehensive collection ever made of music composed in World War II concentration camps. Music by Gideon Klein, Robert Dauber, Rudolf Karel, Erwin…
Continue behind the music: rpm orchestra's new digital release "roundabout" ep
Posted on July 22, 2010 at 1:30am 1 Comment 0 Favorites
roundabout is a free 6-song digital EP release by rpm orchestra.
available @ archive.org/details/RoundaboutRpmOrchestra
it includes two cuts from the…
Continue Recollections At 30 (old-time radio series)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 12:00am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
NBC (1956)
HOST: Ed Herlihy
ANNOUNCER: Fred Collins
Special series celebrating NBC's 30th year of broadcasting. Exellent programs chronicling the history of radio through NBC's vast library of shows dating back to…
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Have you considered using telegraph taps (morse code) for percussion?