CDM Music + Motion Interactive@SXSW

Live music and visuals from createdigitalmusic, createdigitalmotion, and Livid!

Barcelona
209 E 6th St
Austin, Texas 78701
Monday March 10 during SxSW Interactive
8 PM – 12 AM

Creative tech blogs createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com join with Livid Instruments for an evening of mixing, music, and motion.

8:00 PM — Open mixer / project share: bring your custom code, custom patches, favorite music and motion toys, and DIY hardware — finished or not — and hang out with CDM readers, Austin’s digital scene, and SxSWers.

Live Music:

• proem
• Peter Kirn
• Lila’s Medicine

Live Visuals from Livid and Friends:

• Jay Smith – Livid Instruments
• Kusser – Open Labs

… and surprise visualist appearances

FREE
No SxSW badge required
(but you can wear it as a badge of honor, if you like)

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inland empire

so
after many months of panting for the new david lynch film
which for more than one reason i didn’t actually get to see in the theatre…

i finally got to sit down and watch it
before i go into what i thought of the film
i need to preface it with a little personal background

i can’t watch any of his films
without getting completely unhinged

when i watch a david lynch film
i get really inspired
i think its due to me listening to his films more than watching

perhaps what i love the most about his movies
is not the plot (in the utmost sense of the non traditional)
but rather the smallest details that are amplified by sound

whole minutes of footage could be freeze frames aside from one flickering light and an undertone of audio darkness…

he finds a beautiful/weird/frightening image at random,
draws you into it
and then makes you watch it while the audio makes it slip into something more evil
which while its not be the most hollywood accessible form of film making
someone with a taste for the dark and droll
like myself
stays happy and devoted and secretly wanting to score his next film [even if its the just david lynch reading a years worth of weather reports for two hours].

moving on!

anyone that has seen mulholland drive or lost highway from mr.lynch will know
there is a focal point for change or a turning point
where the main character will suddenly change into a completely different person, or walk through a door or into a corner of darkness and everything gets all past present future colliding confusion inducing batshit crazy
[its those moments i cherish the most]
where you suddenly are thinking, “wait so i blink and its a different film? so wait what am i seeing? how can this be?”

coming from the previous two films i have to say
that pretty much ALL of inland empire is “challenging” in the same way
theres the usual exposition that happens in the beginning to get you comfortable with linear time and consecutive events…
and then bang!
about 40ish minutes you will find the moment where you’d usually be saying to yourself “wow! so this is what it must be like to be a full time paranoid schizophrenic”
however,
heres where Inland Empire differs from his previous films
by the end you actually feel as if during the course of the film
someone snuck in and drained you of your sanity with a thick rusty needle
i felt QUITE insane when i turned the tv off.
its the most terrifying experience ive had [while watching a movie]

i spent two hours afterwards
staring into the dark
waiting.

It deserves to be watched again.

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the list

1. the cure – untitled
2. cannibal corpse – i will kill you
3. dead horse – eulogy
4. fugazi – reclamation
5. the legendary pink dots – kingdom of the flies
6. the misfits – skulls
7. peter gabriel – sledgehammer
8. pigface – suck
9. slayer – piece by piece
10. the smiths – i wont share you

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