Filed under: Album, CD, Craig Blacklock, Electronica, Film & Video, Film Scoring, IDM, Lake Superior, Minnesota, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Video, Nature, North Shore, Orchestra, Outdoor Photographer, Photography, Radio
Outdoor Photographer magazine just recently printed a great article on Craig Blacklock and his new book and DVD Minnesota’s North Shore. In case you were wondering why I was mentioning this, I composed the original soundtrack to the DVD. Here’s the article: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/content/2007/aug/earth_water_sky.shtml
Also, Fox 21 News here in Duluth, Minnesota will be airing a story on Craig Blacklock and his book/DVD tonight on the 9 o’clock news. Check it out if you can! By the way, you can purchase the book and DVD here: http://www.blacklockgallery.com/
Although nothing is for sure, there’s a possibility of a live performance of arrangements of a couple sections of the movie with the movie projected simultaneously in a concert setting sometime in the future. I’ll let you know if I hear anything else…
Oh, and thanks to everybody that tuned in to XM Radio to hear my track “Dyad.” It went very well, and many thanks again to Billy Zero for deciding to program the track. Be sure to check out the music video for “Dyad” as well as several other tracks, plus free mp3s to download from my new album here: http://www.erratikproductions.com/releases/err001.html
We shall talk again soon!
Filed under: Abstract, Album, CD, Electronica, Film & Video, Graphics, IDM, Mp3, Music, Music Video, Radio
My track “Dyad” from my album The-Novus-Arcadia is to be among the featured tracks on XM Satellite Radio Channel 43’s the R.A.D.A.R. Report. This album is available now from Erratik Productions. Oh, and if you like the track, here’s the music video to “Dyad” – mov download.
The show will air at 9pm CT tomorrow night (Thursday, July 12th), and it can be heard on XMU, XM RADIO Channel 43, XM RADIO Online, Direct TV Channel 831 and on AOL.
If you don’t have XM radio you can listen online with A FREE ACCOUNT. Go to http://xmro.xmradio.com and use the following code: XMB4MD. This free account will be available for 14 days, so be sure to check it out! If you can’t catch the July 12th 9pm show, here is a list of all the airtimes for the show:
Thursday, July 12th – 9pm CT
Friday, July 13th – 1pm CT
Saturday, July 14th – 5am CT
And of course, be sure to check out all the free video and mp3 downloads from The-Novus-Arcadia right here: err001
Filed under: Abstract, Album, CD, Electronica, IDM, Mp3, Music, Press, Promo, Review
A Review of the Erratik release The-Novus-Arcadia by Ryan Rapsys:
Matthew R. Perrine
Budgeteer News – 06/29/2007
Duluth, Minnesota USA
You may not know Ryan Rapsys by name, but he’s doing wonders for Duluth’s largely unheard-of electronica scene.
Although his latest release, “The Novus Arcadia,” could easily draw comparisons to a number of the genre’s most celebrated artists — namely Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and, to a lesser extent, Photek — its dozen instrumental tracks work together marvelously as a whole.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Though only 26 years old, Rapsys is becoming a celebrated composer. (Perhaps his biggest accolade came in 2003, when the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra performed one of his orchestral works, “Modicum One 2-1202.”)
Aside from his contemporary classical compositions, Rapsys has also scored local theatrical and dance performances and — through his outfit Erratik Productions — films, like the haunting “Cui Bono? WTC.”
Some highlights on the album include the cerebral opener “Aperture” (quite reminiscent of MTV’s promo spots for its “Amp” series) , the lost-in-a-foggy-forest quality of “Birchy” and “Flap Flux,” with its late-period Aphex Twin undertones.
“The Novus Arcadia” is available now. To catch up with the prolific Rapsys (and for some free MP3s to sample), visit www.erratikproductions.com.
