Under dagarna fylls luften av ett märkligt läte. Förra gången vi var här trodde vi länge att det var något elektriskt eller maskinellt, men sen fick vi veta att det är någon sorts insekt.

Now Apple alone could pay the money and still have a sizable amount of cash left. That’s crazy!¹

I början av nittiotalet hittade Christian Gabel en samling bilder som av allt att döma verkar ha varit arbetsmaterial inför en planerad filmproduktion. Bilderna var daterade 1982 och målade upp scener som utspelar sig i ett postapokalyptiskt Karlstad.

(My translation:)

In the early nineties Christian Gabel found a collection of images which appeared to have been working-draft sketches for a movie. The pictures where marked as being from 1982 and showed scenes from a post-apocalyptic Karlstad (a medium-sized Swedish town).¹

Now Christian has created a sort of soundtrack to this non-existing movie. It’s a beautiful synth soundtrack that’s inspired by the music from Blade Runner, The Escape from New York and similar movies.

I don’t know if the story of him finding pictures at a flea market is true or not, but it really doesn’t matter. The music, called Krater, is very beautiful and if you’re a fan of either vintage synth music, early eighties sci-fi movies or both you’ll likely love this.

• Krater on Vimeo
• on Christian’s homepage (in swedish)
• on iTunes
• on Spotify

Krater: Ett soundtrack av Christian Gabel till en film som aldrig gjordes from Karnhuset on Vimeo.

(via Reworked)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BneruaJqlsY

This is a great documentary about how Peter Gabriel wrote, recorded and produced the album Security, back in the early eighties. If you have even the slightest interest in music production, this is mandatory watching.¹

All four parts can be found on YouTube:

• Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BneruaJqlsY
• Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jayZFCo-mvw
• Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJd9IfVdFwg
• Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4wqLE969Q

An intriguing piece of marketing for the upcoming movie Prometheus; a video of Peter Weyland’s, the founder of Weyland Corporation, speech at TED2023.¹

(Unfortunately it requires Flash for embedding, so I didn’t, since that made it look weird in my own, non-flash, browser. MP4-downloads is available from the page.)