iCast: Radiohead

After the overwhelming response to the Nude Remix Project, Radiohead are giving fans the opportunity to remix “Reckoner”, another track from the band’s latest album “In Rainbows” at http://www.radioheadremix.com

To make remixing easy, the separate ‘stems’* from the song will be available to purchase on iTunes. The ‘stems’ available are bass, lead vocal, backing vocals, guitars, piano/strings and drums.  All six stems will be available to buy for the price of a single track.  Fans can mix them in any way they like, either by adding their own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.

Fans who purchase the ‘stems’ from iTunes during the first two weeks they're available, will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don’t need GarageBand to do a remix, the stems are available in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format and compatible with several music software platforms.

Finished mixes can be uploaded to http://www.radioheadremix.com where the public will listen and vote for their favourite. Fans can also create a widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as ‘mix votes’ back on radioheadremix.com.


*‘stems’ are the component parts of the song.

A note from Colin

We made a screensaver using images from the House Of Cards video. It's interactive. If you have a Mac you can get it HERE. If you are on a PC you can get it HERE.

Radiohead decided to choose four videos to win the competition rather than one. Each will receive $10,000 prize to finish their video. Congratulations to all winners.

 The winning video clip submissions and their creative teams are:
• 15 Step V2.0 by Kota Totori, Japan, for the song “15 Step”
http://www.aniboom.com/video/236519/15-step-v2.0/

• 16 Tracks Vs. Videotape 2.0 by Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus Winter, Germany, for the song “Videotape”
http://www.aniboom.com/video/236713/16tracks-vs-videotape-2.0/

• Reckoner V2 by Clement Picon, France, for the song ”Reckoner”
http://www.aniboom.com/video/235299/Reckoner-v2/

• Transmutation by Tobias Stretch, U.S.A., for the song “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”
http://www.aniboom.com/video/233397/Transmutation/

All four videos will premiere on myspace.com when they are complete.

http://aniboom.com/radiohead

After much anguish and a tense voting period the calculations have been made and the five finalists announced. Radiohead are now watching the best of the best, and deciding who becomes the grand winner.

You can watch them for yourself HERE.

"House Of Cards" Clip Created Exclusively Using Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar Technology

World Premiere Today at Google

Data Made Available To Enable Fans To Create Their Own Short Clips
 
In keeping with their decision not to make conventional promotional music videos for any of the tracks on In Rainbows, Radiohead used absolutely no cameras in the making of its new  "House Of Cards" clip, which can be viewed at Google.com

Instead, "House Of Cards", directed by James Frost of Zoo Films, was created utilizing two technologies: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar.  The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead's  Thom Yorke, the female lead and several partygoers.  The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture large environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots. Geometric processed their own data while 510 Systems processed the Velodyne Lidar data. The data was then manipulated by Union Editorial and the Syndicate to create the final result.  

Google will premiere the video today at http://code.google.com/radiohead Additionally, the band will be making available the data used to create the video for fans to manipulate into their own unique short clips. A short documentary detailing the unique process used to create the video will also be available via this link, as will 3D renderings of selected scenes.   

Of Radiohead's decision to eschew cameras for the "video," Thom Yorke commented, "I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it. I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points--and how strangely emotional it ended up being."

RADIOHEAD 'IN RAINBOWS' LIVE FROM THE BASEMENT

Exclusive Live Videos Set Available on iTunes June 24th

Radiohead are releasing ten live performance videos recorded at The Hospital
studio in Covent Garden, with the team from the band's longtime producer
Nigel Godrich's 'From the Basement' TV show
(http://www.fromthebasement.tv/).

The collection will debut, exclusively through iTunes beginning today, June
24th. The videos feature live renditions of songs from 'In Rainbows' and
it's bonus CD included in its deluxe discbox edition.

The full track listing of video performances is:

Bodysnatchers
House of Cards
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
15 Step
Reckoner
Go Slowly
Videotape
Bangers 'n' Mash
All I Need

Captured in a day, with direction by David Barnard and sound by Nigel
Godrich, the videos represent the best recorded representation of
Radiohead's live performance to date.

Help pick the winner of the Radiohead animated video competition

Go to myspace.com/radiohead to watch and vote on the 13 finalist videos

The 10 semi-finalist have been announced!


Go and WATCH

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http://www.mtvexit.org/radiohead/