Paper Cuts

Yesterday I bought some paper-cut images by Chop Pop who spent two years recreating scenes from Camera Obscura's video for "Let's Get Out Of This Country" in order to create an alternative, paper-cut version:

Some images will be for sale on-line soon. All proceeds go to fund research into Sarcoma.

As I type the second instalment of this will soon be broadcast:

And there are only two episodes left of Best Laid Plans on Channel 4. Yikes.

"The 10th Duke" is another preview track from "Hamilton Mausoleum Suite".

It features a string quartet drawn from the Scottish Festival Orchestra and an opening chord borrowed from Stravinsky:

"Early in the compositional process, Stravinsky devised a chord which stretches from D₄ to E₅ to A₆. One day while he and Dushkin were having lunch in a Paris restaurant, he sketched the chord on a napkin for the violinist, who thought the chord unplayable, to Stravinsky's disappointment. On returning home, however, Dushkin tried it out on his violin and was surprised to discover it was actually quite easy to play." 

This is from Wikipedia but I first read about it in Alex Ross's book "The Rest Is Noise". (Sometimes I like tackling books that are beyond me.)


You can pre-order "Hamilton Mausoleum Suite" here.

And here's a wee stocking-filler idea:



Go see this...

 



Talking of films; idea for entirely fictional domestic film scene:

INTERIOR. DAY. A KITCHEN SOMEWHERE IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

 7 YEAR-OLD GIRL:

DADDY YOU SHOULD GO TO THE GYM MORE OFTEN..

47 YEAR-OLD DADDY (WHO NEVER GOES TO ANY GYM):

WHY?

7 YEAR-OLD GIRL:

SO YOU CAN GO ON NINJA WARRIOR UK.

Maybe cut to:

INTERIOR. NIGHT-TIME. 47-YEAR OLD MAN IN WHEELCHAIR, SPECTACLES ASKEW, WEARING AN OXYGEN MASK AND AN ILL-FITTING MUSCLE SHIRT, IS BEING WHISKED DOWN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR TOWARDS AN EMERGENCY ROOM....

FADE TO BLACK.