Dubi Kaufmann’s Blog

“Follow spot” is a preformance event that takes place every month at i^3 a port production house in Chicago. Last Friday with the help of the audience I made this video.
I found the music at jamendo.com, a site that has a big collection of Creative Commons music.

Eric Bartholomew who was part of the audience [...]

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My Friend Julie and I are organizing this.

Todd Frugia is the man in the video.

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You can tell that someone has just started using photoshop by the amount of filters used in his or her work.
Here is the audio equivalent. I am still exploring GarageBand and I am enjoying the fact that all of the heavy lifting is done by the software.
Here is a mix I made out of a [...]

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I love the White Stripes. I remember seeing them in one of the late night shows (Can you tell them apart?) and thinking I need to hear more of this band.
The original
edited backwards beat by beat
I made some changes to the original script so it can approximate fractions of frames.

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The song Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode was a big hit in the early 90’s when I was in high school and a fan of the “English new wave”. After all these years it is still a great song, maybe it is the choir like sample that is used for the beat. Ahh … [...]

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I bought a ticket to Lollapalooza!. I heard of just a small portion of the bands who will play there. What made me buy the ticket were the stories from people who were there last year. In order to make the most out of the three days event, I have been listening to a last.fm [...]

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Last night, as part of the monthly Salon at Rooms Gallery, I collaborated with Stephanie Schnorbus on a piece.
She whistled to a newer version of my whistling in the dark software. I was behind the scenes with the computer.

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I came across this song via Copy, Right. I remember the first time I heard that song. My sister was driving us to a swimming pool and we listened to original version by Joan Armatrading on tape. My sister just got her driving license and we got a little lost on our way. I [...]

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If you know this song, it probably brings a smile to your face. It is the song from the opening credits of “Wheels of Fire” a skateboarding video from 1987. The Song “What so strange about me ” is by a band called “Eight Dayz” led by Claus Grabke I have seen the video [...]

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It is very common for musicals to start with an “I wish” song. The protagonist sings about his life and how he wishes it could change. “Somewhere over the rainbow ” from the wizard of OZ for example. Musical Theatre is kinda dead so producers turn into familiar songs to attract audiences. They take [...]

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