Since its birth in 1991, Day For Night has evolved from original creative content development and boutique label for Eric Scott’s musical and interactive projects, with a catalogue of indie, classical, post-rock and electronica releases.
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 […]
Music Video Peter Moraites “Ragnarok ‘n’ Roll” Music Video from Day For Night. “Ragnarok-N-Roll”(3:08 / QuickTime / 2003)Director : Peter MoraitesArtist : Peter Moraites Shot on location in Providence, Rhode Island (near RISD). Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites & Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
![King FM :: Soundsystem 0.0.1 EP [Day 086v]](https://www.dayfornight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/086_01-300x300.jpg "King FM :: Soundsystem 0.0.1 EP [Day 086v]")
CD | Download With “Soundsystem 0.0.1” (Day 086) digital dub-plate fanatic King FM infuses electr-dub with a hint of roots reggae in this light and summery outing. Comprising eight bass-heavy, downtempo thumpers, King FM is about an instinct to preserve a chilled-out blend of clicks and cuts, vibing against low, smooth bass and rattling, exotic percussion lines.
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 […]
Blog (Eric Scott: Words) | Podcast An evolving online work, “Obsessions” incorporates Eric Scott‘s essays and Situationist rants of the hour.“…Filtered through me, everything – values, music, inspiration, comedy, art, sound, nature, archival strategies, typography, the Spectacle – eventually becomes Day For Night.”View OBSESSIONS Blog
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “Saves The Day” (Day 044) draws further from ambient, jungle and progressive house, as composer / producer Eric Scott unveils a series of electronica miniatures.
Music Video Peter Moraites “Simpletongue” Music Video from Day For Night. “Simpletongue”(3:55 / QuickTime / 2003)Director: Peter MoraitesMusic: Peter Moraites It’s a poem. Yes, that’s it. A poem. Yes. Download MP3 Commentary by Peter Moraites & Eric Scott (Salvador Dalek)
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 […]
Download The BPM Calculator (Beats Per Minute)is a free compositional aid for musicians and DJs. It allows the user to calculate precise tempos, loop lengths, delays and key signature / pitch shifts. This popular tool is a free download as a desktop application for Macintosh and Windows. Download for free:Macintosh (bin-hex/.hqx file, opens using StuffitExpander): 352 kBWindows (.zip file, opens […]
CD | Download 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 […]
CD | Download “On the Trail of the Latin House Lover” (Day 042) shows Rhythm Factory exploring – while getting lost in a pre-Autumnal – new musical territory. Composer/producer Eric Scott is at his most spatial here, opening with a meditational trilogy: the beatless “AESM (Light Remix),” melding into the percussive ambient mind-field of “The Stenotelegrapher” and resolving […]
CDR | Download NIGHTfonts, an imprint of Day For Night, came into existence as part of a greater mission; to create and distribute new typefaces that read well with concern for the limitations of screen-based viewing. “Control” (Day 047), the first family of NIGHTfonts, consists of 6 Truetype font faces available for Mac or PC: NF […]
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The site formerly known as Day For Night v. 1.0 has now migrated over to its permanent new home, the fictitious domain of NIGHTLinkRail.com. Click on over to take a mystery tour, and experience unprecedented travel delays and scenic brickwork from this link. A splendid wait is still guaranteed for all. https://NIGHTlinkRail.com NIGHTlinkRail: Travel Planner […]
CD | Download “Lullabies For Cats” (Day 051) compiles the avant-garde jazz-classical tracks of composer Eric Scott, from the period 1991-2002, fuses them into a 65-minute mix of concert-hall cinematica.
Book | Words & Images by Eric Scott For “Manifesto” (Day 017) Day For Night rethink sub-urban planning, in a typographic journal and overview of Day For Night. Post-Situationist propaganda films covers the walls of NIGHTlinkRail, hammering on about the overthrow of cultural leadership and the entertainment channels that fuel “big news.” Post-revolution theories abound; albeit tongue-in-cheek, while […]
Sitework | Interactive Fiction | Non-Fiction On the surface, Day 071 “The True Wheel” is a metaphor for consistency and repetition within a symmetrical structure or framework. It borrows its title from the Brian Eno song off “Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy” in which a repeating, circular 3-chord sequence develops over a four-bar pattern, creating […]
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “The Case of the Chiming Clock” (Day 042) lifts the shroud, and reduces the fictitious, mystery-solving electronics trio to a solo artist. Producer and composer Eric Scott draws influence from the ambient (“Drumbience Modulator”), drum’n’bass (“Snake Charmer,” “Swing Kids Fly Off”, “®-018”) and breakbeat (“Gamma”) as much as straightforward techno (“Burst […]
Site | Identity Design A weathered alley-side storefront, re:Fresh is accessible in a mere 15 second’s walk (one click) from the home site. At the gallery’s entrance, a tenant directory displays the following roster of tenant options, alongside a stack of door buzzers. They read:1. re:Fresh Design Gallery2. TonStudio3. Poetic License4. NIGHTloops Audio Library5. The […]
CD | Download With “Primer” (Day 034), Rhythm Factory (producer/composer Eric Scott) replaces a darker outer coat of ambient IDM electronica, with a lighter, latex micropercussion as its dominant texture. Presenting a set of instrumental explorations: “Bianca,” “Microhomemusic,” “Auntie Nell’s Cash Skeleton” and “Quillocet” define the edges of the stage. Depending upon one’s interpretation of the word primer; […]
CDR | Download NIGHTfonts, an imprint of Day For Night, came into existence as part of a greater mission; to create and distribute new typefaces that read well with concern for the limitations of screen-based viewing. “Style” (Day 027), the first family of NIGHTfonts, consists of 6 Truetype font faces available for Mac or PC: NF […]
CD | Download “Suck” (Day 024) evolved quickly – beyond the simple companion EP to “Push” it was intended to be – into a proper album on its own. Rhythm Factory’s ten new tracks are fueled by the darker Drum’n’Basscounterpanes of “Zikcfukc (Livin Large),” “Zaouk (Petropolis),” and “Zuq (Itch To Scratch)”… Meanwhile, anthemic basslines and guitars […]
CD | Download “Push” (Day 022) shows Rhythm Factory as a shadow of its former self, in this long-awaited reinvention, ditching its identity as protagonist of “journey musics,” and immersing itself deeper into a progressive, dreamhouse bath. Composer/ producer Eric Scott returns to the studio after a 4-year hiatus (…after singing mostly the equivalent of 95 separate […]
