Northern Lights Church :: Official Site [Day 075]
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CD | Download “Listen” (Day 018) is the first installment of musique concrète of the Found series. Originating as a library of rejected snips from the multimedia audio design process, these ten themed pieces (Flutters, Bodily Noises, Voices, Percussive Rhythms, etc.) also form the basis for much of the audio design in Day For Night’s commissioned work, […]
Interactive Portfolio 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 […]
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 […]
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)
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.
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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 […]
This is the first page. The objective of a blog with this title, “Obsessions,” is to share some of the reasoning that flows through the creative studio environment, and which influences much of our everyday lives. There must be power in the written word. That is not an ambitious plea; it is an imperative. Otherwise, […]
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 […]
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 […]