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Post by ninjapresident on Dec 2, 2015 7:39:24 GMT
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Post by dr on Dec 2, 2015 9:37:32 GMT
oh wow. this has to be early Cook or maybe Lil Data on the one hand the soundcloud has a Disclavier song, which would seem to indicate Cook, and the website has some of his trademark "complexity" and batshit-crazy design, but on the other hand it resembles the lil data site quite a bit EDIT: also "ro ju" = Romeo and Juliet, which you can pick up from the Sparknotes track and some of the website pages' headers, but what about "to" and "ma?" I keep digging deeper, this shit is hilarious EDIT #2: ok so on one of the pages I followed this video through to a rojutoma.com Youtube channel. It consists entirely of: - various badly acted performances of "Romeo & Juliet," some of which have been combined and edited together in a bizarre fashion - a high-school production of Sharman MacDonald's play "After Juliet," also poorly acted - stock footage of fire - home video of a girl playing piano - demos of some preset sounds on a Casio SA 46 - a video demonstrating trippy digital graphic effects - and the kicker: an unlisted video that I only found because it appears 15 or so pages into the rojutoma.com website, called "VCR" and apparently shot in someone's bedroom/home studio, complete with mic, various visible pieces of music gear, shelves of CDs/DVDs/records, and tons of stuffed animals. Nothing really happens until the end where a guy does a goofy Justin Timberlake impression and gives a speech about Christmas while peeling carrots. It's mostly shots of snow outside, or the bedroom, and the dudes hanging out in it. Damned if the cameraman doesn't sound like Cook EDIT #3: Suspicion confirmed. Check the source code from the rojutoma.com homepage. this is an early Cook project. great find!! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 11:43:24 GMT
oh wow. this has to be early Cook or maybe Lil Data on the one hand the soundcloud has a Disclavier song, which would seem to indicate Cook, and the website has some of his trademark "complexity" and batshit-crazy design, but on the other hand it resembles the lil data site quite a bit EDIT: also "ro ju" = Romeo and Juliet, which you can pick up from the Sparknotes track and some of the website pages' headers, but what about "to" and "ma?" I keep digging deeper, this shit is hilarious EDIT #2: ok so on one of the pages I followed this video through to a rojutoma.com Youtube channel. It consists entirely of: - various badly acted performances of "Romeo & Juliet," some of which have been combined and edited together in a bizarre fashion - a high-school production of Sharman MacDonald's play "After Juliet," also poorly acted - stock footage of fire - home video of a girl playing piano - demos of some preset sounds on a Casio SA 46 - a video demonstrating trippy digital graphic effects - and the kicker: an unlisted video that I only found because it appears 15 or so pages into the rojutoma.com website, called "VCR" and apparently shot in someone's bedroom/home studio, complete with mic, various visible pieces of music gear, shelves of CDs/DVDs/records, and tons of stuffed animals. Nothing really happens until the end where a guy does a goofy Justin Timberlake impression and gives a speech about Christmas while peeling carrots. It's mostly shots of snow outside, or the bedroom, and the dudes hanging out in it. Damned if the cameraman doesn't sound like Cook EDIT #3: Suspicion confirmed. Check the source code from the rojutoma.com homepage. this is an early Cook project. great find!! Now tell me drugs were not involved in this. Straight edge *chuckles*. And it is indeed hilarious. I can't let myself go through the whole experience, though. It might never end. Did you finish your travel through rojutoma.com? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 11:58:57 GMT
Found this reconstruction of the Amazon homepage replete with atmospheric crickets and a faraway opera. It's from 2013 so it's safe to say that's when this project was completed- an assignment for goldsmiths??? EDIT: A.G. Cook is definitely involved, here's a recording of him having a convo with his broadband provider. EDIT 2: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EDIT 3: I found ' The End' confirming that: This was by A.G.Cook, for Goldsmiths in 2013. I was right >  . This is so exhaustive it must have been his final assignment or something, I hope he got a good mark.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 12:19:12 GMT
MDMA is an hell of a drug.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 12:20:16 GMT
Jokes aside: man, I really wish I was this passionate about something as he seems to be. It adds up to my depression even more  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 12:25:00 GMT
Jokes aside: man, I really wish I was this passionate about something as he seems to be. It adds up to my depression even more It's easy to see the final product as if it sprung out of thin air. This is the culmination of 3 years of study and I'm sure he found parts of it difficult/limiting etc. I don't know you that well, but your definitely passionate about PC Music (among other things), it's good that we all have that in common.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 12:38:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 12:44:30 GMT
Jokes aside: man, I really wish I was this passionate about something as he seems to be. It adds up to my depression even more It's easy to see the final product as if it sprung out of thin air. This is the culmination of 3 years of study and I'm sure he found parts of it difficult/limiting etc. I don't know you that well, but your definitely passionate about PC Music (among other things), it's good that we all have that in common. It's sad to say that I once was. But this forum is not about my personal problems. Let's go bash on that guy who didn't like PRODUCT! |
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Post by dr on Dec 2, 2015 13:08:03 GMT
Found this reconstruction of the Amazon homepage replete with atmospheric crickets and a faraway opera. It's from 2013 so it's safe to say that's when this project was completed- an assignment for goldsmiths??? EDIT: A.G. Cook is definitely involved, here's a recording of him having a convo with his broadband provider. EDIT 2: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EDIT 3: I found ' The End' confirming that: This was by A.G.Cook, for Goldsmiths in 2013. I was right > . This is so exhaustive it must have been his final assignment or something, I hope he got a good mark. edits 1 and 2 dead |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 13:50:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 14:40:15 GMT
Real Jungle was a member of PCM all along. |
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Post by spencerzsz on Dec 2, 2015 15:41:21 GMT
Oh so this is where the beginning of the DISown mix came from! soundcloud.com/rojutoma/anna-karina-47thats really awesome, didn't realize it was just an early cook song... the full thing is rather fantastic |
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congrats breadvelvet u responsible fukc
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Post by breadvelvet on Dec 2, 2015 16:14:36 GMT
kinda makes me wonder how many of ag cook's esoteric audio samples are references/callbacks/inside jokes w friends to previous work
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Post by bfotd on Dec 2, 2015 16:49:26 GMT
this is so so so sick, that vid of Whybray and Finn D clicking is well funny. I guess this could all be Goldsmiths stuff because our music department has a disclavier? Also a lot of this feel like it could be work from music computing/computing modules from Goldsmiths courses
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. This is so exhaustive it must have been his final assignment or something, I hope he got a good mark. 
