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Here’s an old article on building a portable sound booth.

Portable soundbooth

It’s written from the perspective of a professional on the road, but is a great idea for those on a tight budget trying to build a well-rounded home studio.

Thisismymilwaukee.com showcases a single video produced with a Champion Dynasty Grant from the Milwaukee Tourism Commission. Check out the video:

Most of the video does not appear to be shot in Milwaukee. Besides this awesomely strange clip, the only other thing on the website is a counter, which appears to actually be a countdown to January 16th, 2009, and a couple links to the designers website. Which makes one a little suspicious… why would they not post links to the Actual Milwaukee Tourism Commission website? Well, google tells me there is no Milwaukee Tourism Commission… In fact the only sites which refer to that entity are linking back to this video. After further exploration, an anonymous wiki was found at pbwiki.com The users have been posting new findings about this strange video daily. Granted, the users are probably a marketing team on Madison Avenue, but its a fun little mystery to follow. We’ll see where it takes us, eh?

Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment. Remember the one used in Minority Report?…

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

It’s a bit late to enter this contest, but honestly, You’ve gotta love the pressure of approaching deadlines. Let us know if you submit anything, we’ll post it here, too.

http://www.bigstar.tv/film-contests/comedy-short

Break in the Chain of Light
Tuesday, December 2 - 7pm - Free Screening
“This program of six new films and videos present visions from deep within a bamboo grove, NASA data recordings of the sun transposed into spectacular images and sound, seven years of “celestial field recordings” of the night sky, and 16mm film stock inscribed by the sea itself. Each of these works uniquely depict inscriptions of natural forces onto material consciousness. With films and videos from the US, Japan, Korea, Canada, and England by David Gatten, Jeanne Liotta, Takashi Makino, Minyong Jang, Christina Battle and Semiconductor.”

Visit the Union Theater Schedule

Jori Ketten, Originally from Milwaukee, sends home this letter with a video produced by a group of teens she works with.

Phase III Reflections: Daniel Bernard Roumain Residency from Community MusicWorks on Vimeo.

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Friends and colleagues:

I invite you to take a minute (well, 9 minutes and 34 seconds) to celebrate with me the voices of Kirby Vasquez, Josh Rodriguez, and Luis Ortiz.

Kirby, Josh, and Luis are Community MusicWorks musicians. They are also juniors in high school who took some time away from homework, practicing, performing, and all the other work that they do to create a short video project that you can view here:

http://www.vimeo.com/2355034

The video is a small window into Kirby, Josh, and Luis’s experiences working with world-famous Daniel Bernard Roumain (www.dbrmusic.com), a Haitian-American composer and violinist who visited Community MusicWorks in October.

While finishing the video yesterday, Kirby (who gave up 10 straight hours of her Saturday to edit) commented that she’s going to write her college essay about this project, and has repeatedly talked about the value of the production skills she has learned. In a pre-production essay, Luis wrote, “The whole experience was intense. I found out who I am, and who I am not. It was like a journey through the important things in my life.” Josh calls his time with DBR “a turning point in my love for music,” and says that working with DBR has inspired him to work harder toward his goal of becoming a music producer.

I hope to be able to share more CMW work like this project in the near future, and I hope that these projects continue to inspire students to think and act. I also hope that if you don’t already know about Community MusicWorks, this video might spark your curiosity. Visit http://communitymusicworks.org/profiles.htm#DBR to learn more about the DBR residency, and browse the rest of the site to see what else CMW is up to.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Jori

Jori Ketten
Communications and Evaluation Consultant
Community MusicWorks
www.communitymusicworks.org

Scott Robbe Stopped by the Creative Spurts office today. If you haven’t heard of Film Wisconsin, Please check them out at filmwisconsin.net They are key proponents for economic incentives for the film & television industry in the state of Wisconsin. You can check out the program here.

Watch for these guys in the news. The incentive programs are always in danger of being cut, and they are absolutely vital to the development of our local film industry! The mailing list form on their website isn’t functioning right now, so send them an email, and ask to be kept in the loop. - And tell ‘em Conduit sent ya’.

We discovered a strange little man running around in Bill’s backyard the other night. We captured him on video and decided to initiate ‘The Visitor Project’. It is our first collaborative remix project here on ConduitCinema.com. Here’s Bill Lemorande’s take on it: (Courtesy of LemoProductions.com)

If you would like to participate, you can download the original video here:
The Visitor, RAW footage

Our first event was a success. Thanks to everyone who came out, and especially to everyone who submitted their work and volunteered their time to make this event happen. A HUGE Thank you to our sponsors, please download the program below to view them. Here’s a few pics from the evening, if anyone has more, please post them to the comments, or submit them to info@conduitcinema.com and we’ll make up a little gallery. 

LINE-UP:  [download original program]

Heidi Spencer - House without Walls
Lisa Denker - Photosynthesis 
Emir Cakaroz - Walking on the Moon
David Witzling - News Break
Kate Balsley - Alice Underwater
Laura Bennet - Bobbidy Boo
Joe Sacco - Black Box
Caroline Kestelic - Skeletonizer
Julie Murray - Detroit Block
Ashley Altadonna - Playing With Gender

intermission

Kate Brandt - The Wedding
Sean Kafer - Interchange Air
Dayna Moses - Dead Hair
Ross Nugent - A torrent of Helplessnes Swept Me Away
Sarah Buccheri - Antarctic Territory
Brook Swelstad - Visable Loss
Tate Bunker - A Better Life
Joe Kirschling - Bath Time
Lilly Czarnecki - Brother Heroic