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Peter Moraites :: Spelling Test [Day 077]
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For “Spelling Test” (Day 077) Peter Moraites (animator, producer / director, composer) releases his first video album, comprising 8 animated segments with original score by Moraites and remixes by Salvador Dalek (Moraites and Eric Scott).
This edition features added director commentaries by Pete Moraites with Eric Scott (Day For Night), plus the bonus track “Smokercraft.”
Approximate Running Time: 27 minutes
Commentaries (Version) Running Time: 42 minutes
Available as Region 1-encoded DVD.
Peter Moraites “Program Yourself” [Day 077]
Salvador Dalek Music Video
Peter Moraites “Program Yourself” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Program Youself” by Peter Moraites (with typography by Alyson Boote and music by Salvador Dalek) became the #1 featured video on YouTube, and had been put into rotation on a Washington DC-based NBC cable affiliate, dedicated to the arts.
Before all of the pieces had begun to receive a lot of attention from other interested parties, as well as from galleries.
The “Program Yourself” video was soon afterwards collected as part of the DVD “Spelling Test” (Day 077.dvd).
Peter Moraites “Linetwine” [Day 077]
Salvador Dalek Music Video
Peter Moraites “Linetwine” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
LineTwine
(2:20 / QuickTime / 2005)
Animator : Peter Moraites & Alyson Boote
Sequence Editor: Eric Scott
Music : Polyanalacolyte (Dalek Expansion Mix)
Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott / Peter Moraites)
from the Day For Night CD “Birth (Day 035)“
Peter Moraites :: Official Site
Custom Sitework
Site development, programming and brand strategy by Eric Scott (Day For Night)
It’s finally here – the official website for renaissance man and VJ, illustrator, writer, director, graphic artist, motion graphics editor and composer Peter Moraites.
Forming a virtual gallery of the artist’s own videos, music, writings and notes from the pages of his many sketchbooks, this site offers yet another window into the creative mind that brought to the world the imaginative videos “Program Yourself,” “Twitterpation,” “Linetwine,” “Simpletongue” and “Learning Curve,” among many others. The full motion graphics work by this young director can also be seen on his DVD “Spelling Test.”
http://PeteMoraites.com
Peter Moraites “Adventure! [Day 077]
Salvador Dalek Music Video
Peter Moraites “Adventure” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Adventure!”
(2:00 / QuickTime / 2005)
Director : Peter Moraites
Music : “First In Three (Adventuremix)” (from Day 035)
Artist : Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott / Peter Moraites)
Animations : Peter Moraites with Alyson Boote
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites and Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
Peter Moraites “Sketchbook”
Interactive Portfolio
Peter Moraites – Interactive Illustration Portfolio – Design by Peter Moraites,
Flash interactivity by Eric Scott (Day For Night)
A preliminary teaser for the official website for artist / director / illustrator Peter Moraites.
Forming a virtual gallery of the artist’s own drawings from the pages of his many sketchbooks, this site, designed by Day For Night, offers yet another window into the creative mind that brought the world the imaginative videos “Simpletongue” and “Learning Curve,” among many others. The full motion graphics work by this young director can also be seen on his DVD “Spelling Test.”
More information about petemoraites.com
Peter Moraites “Hypnorama” [Day 077]
Salvador Dalek Music Video
Peter Moraites “Hypnorama” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Hypnorama” (3:10 / QuickTime / 2004)
Director : Peter Moraites
Music : “Thingstuff (Hypnorama Stuffthing Mix)” (from Day 035)
Remix : Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott / Peter Moraites)
Made with Kellee Edwards Lawler (vocalist) and Marc Cobrin (engineer)
The film, “This Action-Adventure Hypnorama Experience is Hijacking Your Mind” was produced during the 48-Hour Film Festival, 2004.
Animations & Film Crew: Pete Moraites with Alyson Boote, Billy Martin, Matthew Lohse (Blue_9.a) and Tyson Patterson (Down-e-Fresh), Weston Higgins, Ari Raz, Lakie & Diante (Dee) Singley, Jon Powell, Shai, Deb Collins.
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites and Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
Peter Moraites “Twitterpation” [Day 077]
Music Video
Peter Moraites “Twitterpation” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Twitterpation”
(3:00 / QuickTime / 2004)
Director : Peter Moraites
Artist: Peter Moraites
ASL/Hands : Alyson Boote
A ballet with hands.
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites and Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
An excerpt from Pete Moraites.com: “This piece began with my long time fascination with sign language and led me to begin learning ASL.
“The intention was to make poetry with hands, by exploring the ideas of hypnotic poetry or poetic hypnosis, and by using the hands as fluid dancing forms… in those bits the poetry of hands resembles ASL like ee cummings poetry resembles a dictionary… they use the same forms and structures.”
Peter Moraites “Ragnarok n Roll” [Day 077]
Music Video
Peter Moraites “Ragnarok ‘n’ Roll” Music Video from Day For Night.
“Ragnarok-N-Roll”
(3:08 / QuickTime / 2003)
Director : Peter Moraites
Artist : Peter Moraites
Shot on location in Providence, Rhode Island (near RISD).
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites & Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
Peter Moraites “Smokercraft” [Day 077]
Music Video
Peter Moraites “Smokercraft” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Smokercraft”
(1:44 / QuickTime / 2003)
Director : Peter Moraites
Music : Peter Moraites
The journals and sketchbooks of Peter Moraites form the textual landscape upon which “Smokercraft” is settled; a wry juxtaposition of the sampled guitar played by Moraites’ uncle Bill (of 70s Smokercraft fame) and Pete’s organic reconstructions.
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites and Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
Peter Moraites “Simpletongue” [Day 077]
Music Video
Peter Moraites “Simpletongue” Music Video from Day For Night.
“Simpletongue”
(3:55 / QuickTime / 2003)
Director: Peter Moraites
Music: Peter Moraites
It’s a poem. Yes, that’s it. A poem. Yes.
Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites & Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
Peter Moraites “Learning Curve” [Day 077]
Salvador Dalek Music Video
Peter Moraites “Learning Curve” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night.
“Learning Curve”
(3:10 / QuickTime / 2003)
Director: Peter Moraites
Music: Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott / Peter Moraites)
Take a journey with suspended expectations and definitions.
Vistas, both new and familiar, take on magical properties. Cosmic forces play their game of balance on a black and white game grid. A magician’s music reveals older worlds within the walls of the labyrinth. Giant roadside faith magnet shatters, releasing dynamic expressions of energetic creation.
This is how we see the world in a new light.
Peter Moraites :: Cinemathematica [Day 088]
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Peter Moraites is by nature a visual artist, and this shows through in his musical atmospheres. From his background as writer, director, illustrator, photographer and editor, Moraites leans every instrument towards its most percussive qualities; emphasizing hammered guitar strings, pizzicato trombones, tentative but mellifluous piano lines, and the occasionally identifiable 4/4 rhythm pattern in an otherwise odd-sox of tempos and time signatures. The impression is overall beguiling, especially as he has only been creating music for just a year.
The forty-three exploratory works on“Cinemathematica” (Day 088) evolve through gentle melodic shifts and drones amidst colliding rhythm programs and percussion centers, where experimental ambience reigns in a fourth-world kind of way. Tense and anxious, while alternately hypnotic and beautiful, Cinemathematica elaborates upon the young artist’s multimedia and film-scoring potential. Never lacking in gravitas, these abbreviated compositions – many under two minutes – flow together or signal an editorial sea-change.
Various Artists “OverCast” Podcast
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“OverCast” is a themed series of eclectic podcast mixes (genres ranging from fringe electronica, drum ‘n’ bass, trip-hop and downtempo, avant-garde-jazz-classical, spoken-word sound collage) and curated by the Day For Night artists Eric Scott, Salvador Dalek, Peter Moraites and more.
A one-time subscription to the free podcast (RSS) feed below will give you access to all of the podcasts.
First-Timers, subscribe on iTunes
Advanced users with other podcatchers, our direct feed is here
“OVERCAST” : UPCOMING PODCAST SERIES 
Click below for advance info on any of these upcoming free Day For Night Podcast channels. To subscribe, simply subscribe to the main feed here, and the channels (series) will be added to your Downloads as they become available.
Day 020 : “Music From The Park” (Found Mix)
Day 030 : “Addictaphone” (The Creativity Podcast)
Day 060 : “Re:Fresh” (Salvador Dalek Mix)
Day 070 : “Hospital Radio” (Day For Night Mix)
Day 100 : “Terminus” (Day For Night Mix)
“The White Knight of Roppongi”
Peter Moraites – sketch by Patricia Dalen
Genres: Experimental / Cinematica / Illustration / Fiction / Design / Motion Graphics / Direction / Consultation
Pete Moraites began drawing pictures at the very early age of 0.9 years old, initially favoring the medium of crayon (Crayola 64-pack with built-in sharpener). Showing some promise in this area, he expanded his repertoire to include pencils, pens and even Mr. Sketch scented magic markers (Peter was easily identified at the time by his perennial polychrome mustache). It was around this time that he began to write stories as well.
Peter went to Rutgers University where he continued to write and draw things. Somewhere between the two, people began to pay him for it. Past creative endeavors include:
- Active participation in the Tomato ten-day workshops in Tokyo (2000), and the five-day workshop in New York City (2001).
- Developing motion graphics and writing/directing entertainment segments for liins, John Gray, Richard Jeni, Norman Schwarzkopf, and Larry King
- Writing, directing and editing promotional, documentary and music videos for Ecko Clothing
- Designing motion interstitials for Nickelodeon™ and writing/illustrating a serialised comic book for Nick Online™
- Developing opening titles and interstitial designs for PBS’s “New York Adventures” Peter’s cartoon work has also been featured in Backyard Monsters, a touring museum exhibit for children.
During 2001, Peter (a.k.a. Sean Annigans, a.k.a. “The White Knight of Roppongi”) migrated to the Left Coast where he continues to grow as a creator/developer of ideas, imagery, and story, frequently combining his skill and passion for conceptualization, writing, design, direction, editing, and animation. Recently, he has begun making noise as well, with increasingly occasional musical result. His collaboration with Eric Scott, under the moniker Salvador Dalek, remains one of the many unsolved mysteries of this century.
Official site : Pete Moraites.com
Pete Moraites releases on Day For Night
- “Spelling Test” DVD ( 2006 | Day 077 )
- “Cinemathematica” ( 2004 | Day 088 )
Salvador Dalek :: Beat The Time [Day 065]
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“Beat The Time” (Day 055) is the culmination mash-up of various live performances and by ambient and progressive cinematica artists Salvador Dalek. unleashing the label’s back catalogue to storming set of progressive house, trance, and drum’n’bass remixes.
Mixed by Eric Scott, this set melds progressive house and dancefloor-oriented grooves (even drum ‘n’ bass beats) from the Day For Night artist roster, also featuring Mr. No-Logo, Found, Rhythm Factory, Künstfabriken and Peter Moraites… and even Bluebottles… resulting in a blend of melodic sampladelia.
Salvador Dalek :: Birth [Day 035]
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Salvador Dalek “Birth.” Day 035 by Salvador Dalek
“Birth” (Day 035) is the nascent studio outing of ambient and progressive cinematica artists Salvador Dalek. Not to be confused with its wiser, elder sibling Julie Android, Salvador Dalek operates in a sampladelic and definitionless universe.
Born June 2001 as a live remix identity of Eric Scott and Peter Moraites, this moniker is the one they have used since their first association, through the collaborative projects they have created following Tomato Workshops NYC, where they first chose recording and remixing as an outlet away from other professional activities in the fields of multimedia.
Salvador Dalek “Spelling Test Video Party"
DVD Launch Event
The evening of Saturday, May 20, 2006 marked the date for the Peter Moraites “Spelling Test” video album Launch Party, at Ocean Front Gallery, along the legendary henna-tatooed, roller-blading boardwalk in Venice, CA. Many thanks are due all-around to the friends who so kindly attended and contributed to the evening’s success.
After sundown, the courtyard space at 801 Ocean Front Walk rapidly became a buzzing outdoor lounge, complete with wine and appetizers, and illuminated by a pair of projection walls (one outdoor, the other inside the gallery) – and featuring a continual and mesmerising litany of classic music videos and intoxicating visuals throughout the night.
Inside the main gallery space, a hushed audience was treated to a soulful, pop acoustic set by Canadian artist Marianne Baker, after which came the anticipated, and warmly received screening of the video album/DVD “Spelling Test,” which comprises nine original Pete Moraites music/art videos, with soundtracks by Moraites (“Simpletongue”, “Twitterpation”, “Smokercraft”) and Salvador Dalek (Day For Night’s Eric Scott, remixing and collaborating with Moraites). The presentation was transformed by Moraites’ own closing speech; a poignant thanks to his closest collaborators – an inspirational hommage to the value of encouragement and the creative workshop process.
Eleven o’clock heralded the premiere live performance of Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott on laptop and mixing desk, with Pete Moraites providing visuals and live VJ-accompaniment throughout the set) – unleashing a storming set of progressive house, trance, and drum’n’bass remixes from the Day For Night back catalogue, spanning a breakneck-56-song live remix (in under an hour’s time) and highlighted by a glowing flute performance from soloist Kelly Wilson, during “Twitterpation” – another key highlight of the evening. Our ears are still ringing, and all in a good way.
The Salvador Dalek remix CD “Beat The Time (Day 055)” will be released soon, featuring highlights from this live set, plus a fully-remixed podcast of the set to also follow soon… Check back at this link for details very soon:
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30. Deep Dog
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From darkness.
…I entered NIGHTlinkRail’s gateway and descended into the extranet that Tuesday, via Station 019. I had a handful of quarters and a haversack, filled with my camera, my steno pad, my walkman (listening to Paris: A Musical Overpass all the way here. What a blast to imagine actually being able to go there from here…or wherever here is. I decided I would take one of those mystery trips advertised on one of the walls in the station. Saw a poster reading “Take An Internet Journey-By-Rail.” Next to that was a large ticket paypoint with a ten-by-ten selector counting all the way up from 001 to 100. I was intrigued by the fact that only about one-half of them were lit up or even appeared to be working. At first glance, it looked like a mostly dormant network.
Chose my lucky number twenty-four. 24? 24. There it was all lit up and waiting: 024. I clicked the button, and waited for the paypoint to issue me a ticket or something. “Validating your connection, please wait”… The next thing I knew, I found myself hurtling along a dark tunnel as one of the NIGHTlink connections carried me and my haversack to my mystery destination.
Chose my lucky number twenty-four. 24? 24. There it was all lit up and waiting: 024. I clicked the button, and waited for the paypoint to issue me a ticket or something. “Validating your connection, please wait…” The next thing I knew, I found myself hurtling along a dark tunnel as one of the NIGHTlink connections carried me and my haversack to my mystery destination.
In the dim interior light of the car, I could hear the repetitive cachick-cachack of the trestle rods and the faint hum of a busker strumming his guitar and scratching decks to underground beats and to the bemused stares of other telecommuters. But when I turned my head, I was all alone here. Where was this seemingly deserted subway car taking me? I could see the ambient and repetitive blur of ads flying past on the wall, inches beyond the glass of the door. I could barely make out the words except by the repetitions. Flybills for different artists… “Peter Moraites”…“Rhythm Factory”… “Found”… “Salvador Dalek” (chuckle)… “Day For Night” …“Eric Scott”…odd that it was Tuesday and that it was also raining.
When the doors opened a mere few seconds later, I found myself staring down a dark tube with a Travel Planner in my hand.
The global brain…
There’s also the global brain theory, which is really interesting.
The global brain exists, and according to writer Peter Moraites, the next phase of collective consciousness is inevitable. It’s the next level we move on to, beyond the state that appears to be amassed with chaos and entropy. Today we are meta-particles, bumping into one another; then, at a sort of neo-atomic level, we vibrate en masse when the collision rate increases beyond a certain level, and we change over into a different life form. Or something like that.
There is always the possibility that we could extinct ourselves too, before this other thing could happen.
Tomato Workshops NYC :: June 2001
Art Workshop Event
John Warwicker (Tomato) at the NYC Tomato workshops
“Record the world in front of you
and in the edges of what you
cannot or will not see.” – Eric Scott
Excerpt from the brief for Tomato‘s workshops:
The workshops are a way of immersing yourself suddenly and intensely into the process and conversation that goes on within tomato. Several members of tomato are there to initiate the conversation, but the workshop really happens through the interaction of everyone there. A wide range of people from around the world with diverse backgrounds come together to create work. You not only learn a great deal from everyone around you but everyone learns from you as well. They are about creativity, art, process, life, philosophy, design, and the interconnectedness of all of these things. But of course I now have to ask if these things ever were separate from each other anyway? (more) (Courtesy of TomatoWorkshops.com)
Eric Scott (Day For Night) “June, 2001 in New York City was the setting of the Tomato Workshops where I met Peter Moraites, and formed an indelible bond and friendship. Much can be said about the 5 days spent at a workshop where I arrived with no concrete expectations, and left with a head full of dreams. John Warwicker, Graham Wood and Steve Baker (of Tomato) had created a studio setting that felt (for me) like a week-long break from routine, where the client work schedule got left behind in California, and I could instead inhabit this “commune-like” environment for creativity, where sleeping and eating came second to working and making things in a creatively charged space.”
Eric Scott “Polite” from Tomato Workshops NY, 2001 from Day For Night.
Produced for Day 1 of the Tomato Workshops NYC, June 2001.
An exercise created from my room at Hotel 17, Greenwich Village at 11:30 pm on a very rainy night in New York City. It was made using Flash and Macromedia SoundEdit; using a digital camera, handheld audio recorder and limited resources (certainly no access to internet, c’mon — it was June 2001 and I was alone in a dingy little hotel)… 🙂
Add Soundcloud file embed for installation art created in NYC during this period.
Launches an image gallery or slideshow of works and exhibits.
For a gallery of the Tomato Workshops site created and maintained by Ed Panar, with alumni details and photos from the events:
https://www.tomatoworkshops.com/nyc01_home.html
Salvador Dalek :: Gallery
Salvador Dalek is Eric Scott (DJ, Producer, Composer / Day For Night) and Peter Moraites (VJ/DJ, Composer, Artist)
Various Artists :: Junction [Day 050]
Genre: Eclectic electronica, trip-hop, found sound, ambient, breakbeat, modern composition, avant-garde jazz-classical and world indie.
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“JUNCTION: ANOTHER TRAIN LEAVING”
Included tracks from Eric Scott, Rhythm Factory, Found, Mr. No-Logo and Salvador Dalek, result in a blend of melodic sampladelia. On “Junction (Another Train Leaving/Day 050),” the latest Day For Night sampler, Salvador Dalek (Eric Scott / Pete Moraites) remix the label’s back catalogue, drawing upon an eclectic mixture of post-rock, breakbeat, downtempo, found sound, avant-garde-jazz-classical (to coin a favorite local idiom) and electronica.
Various Artists :: Music From The Park [Day 020]
Genres: Found sound and dark ambient/cinematica
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Day For Night label compilation “Music From The Park” (Day 020) highlights multi-tasking composer Eric Scott in producer/instrumentalist roles. Donning his remix cap, he weaves 18 original tracks and presents us with his personal, sonic mind-map, mashing up the cinematic vs. the narrative; aggro vs. paranoiac; ambient vs. atmospheric. Included tracks range from solo guitar, to his alter egos as Rhythm Factory, Mr. No-Logo, Künstfabriken, Found and King FM – and collaborations with Pete Moraites as one-half of Salvador Dalek.
Podcast Title: “The Gift” [ Parts 1-5 ]
Description: Ambient, headphone listening from Found, as they trawl the inner reaches of Huntsberry Park in search of The Gift.
Various Artists :: The Inner Cinema [Day 010]
Genres: Eclectic electronica, beats and soundscapes
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Day For Night label compilation “The Inner Cinema” (Day 010) highlights multi-tasking composer Eric Scott in producer/instrumentalist roles. Donning his remix cap, he weaves 18 original tracks and presents us with his personal, sonic mind-map, mashing up the cinematic vs. the narrative; aggro vs. paranoiac; ambient vs. atmospheric. Included tracks range from solo guitar, to his alter egos as Rhythm Factory, Mr. No-Logo, Künstfabriken, Found and King FM – and collaborations with Pete Moraites as one-half of Salvador Dalek.
