Monday, February 11, 2008

Get the funk out!

alright, video posting time...looong overdue!
I've been trying to post this video from youtube, but to no avail! I may have to re-edit this later. But for now, I urge all of you to take 5 mins off your time and check out this clip:

The band, as some of you may already know, is the same one responsible for the now infamously cheesy "more than words" song. You would be surprised to find out that "get the funk out" is the style that 90% of their songs follow. The song, as well as "more than words", can be found on the "pornograffiti" album.

My intent is to analyze the rhythms that the song generates through the human body's interpretation of it. So in comes Ms Martiena Schneller, 3 time 2nd runner up tapdancing world champion. I put together a list of songs that include interesting rhythmic grooves, and she picked this one. Using one camera at first, I filmed her dancing to the song while listening to it on my Ipod. This clip is of her tapping to the intro of the song (up until the point where the guitar pick scratches the strings before the vocals kick in).

3 comments:

Luc Wilson said...

It seems like the heel/toe relationship as compared to the foot/body relationship is extremely important. I know we talked about you getting the tap music in class, but if you can you should also get the sheet music for the song she is dancing to. It would be great to see diagrams of motion, tap music, and sheet music, and then the translation/hybridization of them in 3-dimensions. It’ll be interesting to see which moments register on all three diagrams and which only appear on one.

turner said...

yeah im planning on getting the sheet music incorporated into this at some point...i just wanna make sure that the 3d diagrams match up to the song first...
i got alot of stuff i have yet to post. I don't think I have included any heel/toe relationships yet, but when I hang out all my laundry in class tomorrow, I would appreciate it if you would point it out and we can talk about how could we incorporate it.

bluewolf963 said...

Try not to get too hung up on matching your models to the music. I don't believe these representations need to be highly detailed on their own; I think the real challenge is coming up with a good analysis, and giving exigence to the models.