dorian moore : (digital media) technologist

Ross has updated one of his kiosks to record some musical confessions from the atendeed of SHOWstudio's Fashion DJS project. This is my contribution, many more here

• Dorian's PopVox at Fashion DJs

Tags : video showstudio, work, kiosk,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:10 GMT

Some live footage of Voice Of The Seven Woods them at The Local in Crouch End last month.

• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - First track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Second track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Third track

Tags : music video, voice of the seven woods,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 15:51 GMT

Fear of Jazz? More like fear of becoming a stalker....

Last night I saw Chris Corsano perform once again, at The Pool bar in Shoreditch, at the 'Fear Of Jazz' night. Once again he was amazing. Each time I see him he seems to have developed a little bit more in his style and what he's playing. His ability to generate a rhythm and then make it flow and develop in ever more complex ways, bouncing off the drums and modifying them to make the subtlest changes in sound, evolving it and driving it on. See for yourself in the clips below.

He's not always on top form, and if you were unfortunate enough to attend the previous nights performance when he played with Noah Howard, Evan Parker and John Edwards can attest to. I held such high hopes for this, having seen Corsano and Edwards do a blinding performance at the LMC Festival in December, it was horrible to see the restraint from Corsano as every time he and Edwards broke out they were interrupted by Howard bringing it back to New Orleans. I'd really liked to have seen if Parker, Howard and Corsano were left to their own devices that night.

I might start to get perceived as a Corsano stalker at this rate, as I've now seen him perform 9 or 10 times in the last year. Next time is The Flower-Corsano Duo next month. But hey, when you get the chance to see an amazing performer do loads of events in your neighbourhood (well, London) you have to, in the words of Noah Howard: 'support your local geniuses!'

• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 1 45.9mb – mov
• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 2 26.1mb – mov
• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 3 19.8mb – mov

Tags : music video, experimental, chris corsano, drums, free-jazz, improvisation,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 09:36 GMT

Via mobile phone

At butlins

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• 7.4mb – mp4

Tags : video
Posted by Dorian Moore via mobile phone on Friday, December 8, 2006 at 22:03 GMT
Last modified Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 21:00 GMT

More extreme drumming ...

This time provided by Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt at a phenomenally loud gig at The Luminaire, another classic night out from Upset The Rhythm!.

Clicky below for a video clip. Caution: Contains loud music. I can't hear very well today.

• Lightning Bolt @ The Luminaire 28/05/2006 11.6mb – mp4
• Lightning Bolt @ The Luminaire 28/05/2006 clip 2 2.7mb – mp4

Tags : music video, drums, lightning bolt,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:37 GMT

Free-Jazz Drumming.

Some video clips of Chris Corsano playing with Barr at the Luminaire in Kilburn last night. Corsano's drumming was hypnotic, first time I'd seen him live, but he must be seen again. Preferably without Barr, who rather spoiled it for me - Corsano seemed a bit trapped with the click-track and song format, though still managed to excel in that space.

Notable mentions to Temperatures and Birds Of Delay for great support slots. Magik Markers didn't really do it for me either. Thanks to Upset The Rhythm! for another excellent line-up.

• Chris Corsano playing with Barr (Video 1) 16.7mb – mp4
• Chris Corsano playing with Barr (Video 2) 8.0mb – mp4
• Chris Corsano playing with Barr (Video 3) 17.7mb – mp4

Tags : music video, experimental, chris corsano, drums, free-jazz, improvisation,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 09:16 GMT
Last modified Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 11:19 GMT

My cycle from home to work on video

Yesterday I got a new phone so this morning I attached my old phone to the handelbars of my bike and recorded the journey.

Click To Play

Updated, added my journey home, and an alternative route to work, today

• Home to Work 10.6mb – mov
• Work to Home 9.7mb – mov
• Home To Work (Alternative Route) 9.7mb – mov
• Work To Home (Alternative Route) 12.8mb – mov

Tags : video cycling, bike, journey,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, May 5, 2006 at 10:53 GMT

Batch video compression software don't crop the filenames of the 100 files I've asked you to compress and append them with your own naming scheme without giving me the option to override it.

I hate software which tries to be clever for stupid people, but can't be stupid for clever people. I know they are different files, just change the file extension. That's all I want. Hell, it's all I need.

Now I have to rename 100 files which have had the major identifying part of the filename over written, and that I can't identify the contents of because they are compressed in a video codec that doesn't have a native player.

Tags : software usability, interfaces, video, compression,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 09:36 GMT
Last modified Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 13:23 GMT