Musical Artists

DISCO:
Diana Ross is one of my favorite artists, especially.  As a kid I grew up listening to a variety of older music rather than listening to what my generation was producing.  Ross's music videos uses special effects that resemble experiments with a program similar to iMovie with the transitions and such.  In other videos of hers she utilized gray scale and experimented with older camera footage incorporation.  


PUNK:
The Vandals utilize a great deal of technology in their music videos.  They even have a performance art piece for their song "Don't Stop Me Now".  There are special effects, such as cars being thrown through the air.  Many effects were done to skew the normal world using black and white scale, giving the video a very static look.   


NINETIES:
Fountains of Wayne use of technology is also geared in their music videos.  One video in particular is for the song, "Stacy's Mom".  This video is interesting because they project the band playing the song onto books and the television screen, having the actors interact with it.  The video of the band members is scaled to be purple, almost resembling them being drawn with a pencil and colored in.


TECHNO:
Robert Babicz-Babiczmi uses technology to create all of his music.  Everything he creates is using pre recorded sounds from synthesizers.  His music has no lyrics, but the beats and rhythms are his own and they are pretty rad! 


ELECTRONIC:
Amon Tobin-Bricolage uses technology to create different sounds and beats using other music.  There are sirens that go off and drum beats that are repeated and are constant.  Using technology, his sound machines, he can increase the volume of certain parts of his music, utilizing crescendos, but without worrying about specific individual band performers ignoring the symbols and cues.