Rhythm Factory :: Saves The Day [Day 044]
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.
Artists
The Day For Night catalogue focuses on a 30-year history of artist works created by Eric Scott, as well as under the production aliases of Rhythm Factory, Mr. No-Logo, The Everyday, Cowboy Joe vs. Julie Android, Found, Fuzzknobs, King FM, Kunstfabriken, Monica Bang, Sexus and Bluebottles. Long-term friend and collaborator Peter Moraites is also one-half of Salvador Dalek; and the Von Trapps project is a one-off collaboration with singer-songwriter Doug Green.
Peter Moraites “Simpletongue” [Day 077]
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)
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 […]
Day For Night :: BPM Calculator v1.3 [Day 092]
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 […]
So what is Day For Night?
Day For Night originated in 1991 as a recording imprint and independent-projects label, based out of Santa Monica, California. Promoting multimedia while emphasizing a lightly-branded, personalized design style, Day For Night CD releases to date include works in contemporary music and new media released on CD, CD-R and the web. In nearly-equal parts, the Day […]
People In Progress.org Sitework
The People In Progress sitework launched Labor Day 2002 – a completely new look for this Los Angeles-based non-profit organization. Inspired by the success stories related from the men and women recovering from substance abuse and alchohol addiction under this program, Eric Scott explains how he created 4 original short films and designed the new Flash-based site. “It […]
Peter Moraites :: Cinemathematica [Day 088]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: On the Trail of the Latin House Lover [Day 042]
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 […]
Salvador Dalek vs. NIGHTfonts :: Mission [Day 047]
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 […]
“Wildass” Viral (Interstitial) Video
Brand identity for “Wildass” – a creative consortium based in Venice, CA. The use of personal quotes and affirmations from the creative team forms the basis of the “subliminals” which flicker through the animation sequence. Art direction by Eric Scott (Day For Night). Music “Pykop/The Extra” by Rhythm Factory
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NIGHTlinkRail :: Sitework [Day 019]
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 […]
Tomato Workshops NYC :: June 2001
Art Workshop Event “Record the world in front of youand in the edges of what youcannot 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 […]
Eric Scott :: Lullabies For Cats [Day 051]
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.
Day For Night :: Manifesto [Day 017]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: The Case of the Chiming Clock [Day 034]
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 […]
RE:fresh Partners :: Identity [Day 060]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: Helix [Day 032]
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; […]
NIGHTfonts :: Style [Day 027]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: Suck [Day 024]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: Push [Day 022]
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 […]
Rhythm Factory :: All Mine! [Day 014]
CD | Download “All Mine” (Day 014) – the proposed single from Rhythm Factory‘s “Play Pop!” – was mislaid as official catalogue product, while mastering decisions held up the latter title’s release in 1992. The single was shelved, and has only just recently seen the light of the millennium. Powered by deeply insistent, resonant grooves and […]
Sexus :: Musical Anamorphosis No. 1 [Day 025]
CD | Download The term anamorphosis refers to a form of distortion and perspective viewing. Consider the divergent methods of painter Hans Holbein and his painterly occlusions, which, when viewed upon a skewed angle, revealed a secondary visual agenda that was all his own. The release “Musical Anamorphosis No. 1” (Day 025) assembles five pieces composed […]
Eric Scott :: 50 Minutes From Paris [Day 031]
CD | Download Eric Scott describes “50 minutes from Paris” (Day 031) as “a collection of piano miniatures. At the time I was composing much of “Paris: A Musical Overpass,” my musical attitudes were to embrace methods of formal composition formerly unexplored by me…so I was researching listening to the entire Satie catalogue, looking for […]