http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive The Digital Bird Studios Collection Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Follow this link to hear episode #1 of a new series featuring hosts Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith and Jay Watts III as they interviewing a list of musicians gracing Montreal's festival scene this summer. First off will be a variety of acts part of Casa Del Popolo's Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival. http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=45 Here's the second half of the LiveWires show from Cafe Cagibi. Enjoy! http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=43 In June of 2007 LiveWire performed their set of One Sentence Stories at Cafe Cagibi on St-Viateur Streetin Montreal. Digital Bird Studios is proud to announce this slideshow as the first in a series of media following this rare and notorious trio through their live ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=42 By Martin Horn 2007 Originally broadcast on CBC Radio One's "Definitely Not The Opera" (DNTO), this pieces explores the meaning and essence of that sitcom staple, the laugh track. It briefly explores the origins of the laugh track before examining the new crop of laugh track-less situation comedies emerging on the airwaves. ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=33 By Ali Rahman & Ashley Wong 2005 Post-millennial technophilia and the ubiquity of laptop computers conspired to form a new class of electronic musician, the laptop musician. Often times their faces were obscured by their screens as they sat on stage and played intensely sophisticated compositions focused on timbre, pulse and collage. ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=30 By Ali Rahman & Sarah Taylor 2005 This video made effort to visually articulate the principal of phasing as explored by Steve Reich in his early tape experiments. Here, a single layer of video is shot, doubled, and overlayed upon itself. The second layer was then trimmed (ever so slightly), so upon ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=28 By Ali Rahman 2007 Probably not the best item to post on a client-facing blog, but alas. This video was shot using the built-in Apple iSight camera fixed on my desk in my semi-private cubicle. On this particular dull afternoon, I was endlessly awaiting proofs from my designer. Being impatient and bored, ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=31 By Ali Rahman 2005 In art school, one is generally expected to privilege symbolism over narrative, medium over message and circular over linear. In art school, the term "abstract" is often perverted not to mean "essential" but to mean "ephemeral". This video was a reaction to a particularly frustrating art class. Rahman ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=29 October 25th, 2007 E-Art Digital excursions Ali Rahman The Fondation Langlois makes the MMFA a site for e-adventures I was 19 when I saw a Bill Viola retrospective at the Whitney in New York. Stoned, alone and young as I was, it represented the pinnacle of a pure aesthetic experience for me. I was not ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=27 November 1st, 2007 Wasted-Growing-Space Civic Honda Ali Rahman Emi Honda's post-urban intervention is no waste of space Urban Detroit is overgrown. After decades of decay the inner city is experiencing something of an eco-renaissance. Vacant lots have been converted into community gardens, vines creep up through derelict buildings, small forests are pushing their way through ... http://www.digitalbirdstudios.com/archive/?p=24