Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Adam Dorn grew up steeped in jazz.
[T]he son of famous jazz and R’n’B producer Joel Dorn. He grew up around the jazz and R&B discs his father produced for Atlantic Records in the ’60s and ’70s. As a 15-year-old, he sent a fan letter to bassist Marcus Miller. When Miller responded, inviting Dorn to come by the studio, one visit turned into three years hanging around artists David Sanborn, Luther Vandross and Miles Davis.
In the New York clubs, as Mocean Worker, he worked jazz licks into his drum ‘n base DJ’ing, but not a lot more than is usual. By nature, there is actually a great deal of jazz in electronica, so the time he spent hanging with jazz legends was not going to waste.
Then he began to include samples of swing jazz and incorporate swing and big band structures and sounds into his music and it took off.
I came across Mocean Worker just after the Cinco De MoWo! album was released and am a huge fan. And I certainly haven’t been alone; Lincoln has used MoWo’s music in it’s commercials and his work shows up all over TV and radio.
I am feeling doubly fortunate as I’ve been able to dig up three animated music videos.
Shake Ya Boogie (from Cinco De Mowo!)
Shooby Shooby Do Ya! (from Candygram for MoWo!) Animation by Czarek Kwaśny
On and On (from Enter the MoWo! – can you identify all the jazz legends in this video?)
I’m not usually a fan of rotoscope animation, but this is not your ordinary rotoscopy. It’s done in watercolor. This gives the video an interesting nuance and ‘mixability’ between the colors and gradients. The watercolor also adds an extra texture (and at times, angularity). The flow and transition of the animation draws you along as well.
Irina Dakeva (of french-based wizz design) animated and directed this music video for Breakbot‘s “Baby I’m Yours“.
Incredible ‘light painting’ animation from Oh Yeah Wow, music from All India Radio (The Silent Surf)
No, nothing to do with the operating system we love to hate. This video is more a mellow architectural/design tour. You can tell it’s age as all the displays use CRTs.
Shinji Inamoto takes a frenetically idiosyncratic tune by Frenchman Thiaz Itch and animates it utterly. Hitting the beats and following the changes in an avant-garde style that twists and surprises as much as the music does.
Modeling by Hironari Okada
Music:”La Combe du Tréboulou” by Thiaz Itch (i think we’ll be back to hear more from mr itch soon…)
Whoever animated this video was running some heavy fuel…
Heart’s a Mess by Gotye has a dream-like quality that reminds me a bit of Alan Parsons Project. The video, animated by Brendan Cook, reinforces the unreality well.
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