#HDBOYS, the worlds first boyband in high definition, Summer 2011
Music recorded & produced by Aaron David Ross
Music composed by Alex Kelly-Hoffman & Aaron David Ross
Vocals performed by Alex Kelly-Hoffman
Visuals by Tabor Robak
Choreography by Colin Self
Attitude & video editing by Ryder Ripps
Recordings of Enya’s 1996 recording of the traditional Latin & Gaelic masterpiece Pax Deorum are transformed through an original EMU Systems Modular Synthesizer.
Study and reinterpretation of Music of the Night from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 Broadway Musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Tracked Polyphony, EMU Systems Monophonic Modular synthesizer, Moog Vocoder
Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing played by the Shoutbox Conductor
Shoutbox Conductor is a program that generates the playback speed of any MIDI file by comment data taken from the song’s Last.fm’s ‘shoutbox’.
The comment text is converted into ASCII values and used as a series of millisecond delays between each beat in the MIDI file.
Sound provided for the Beijing edition of Radical Friend‘s Digital Flesh installation, via The Creators Project. Collaboration with Matthew Arkell, Gatekeeper.
Cover of “I have Nothing” by Whitney Houston performed by Aaron David Ross, keyboards & Sequencing, and Hudson Harrington Berry, Alto Saxophone. Performed Winter, 2009 at the Art Institute’s WAVEFORMS concert series.