About the Project
On 10 September 2008 The Almighty Sound finally released their much anticipated film project, '2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey'. The project takes the video and subtitles from Kubrick's masterpiece 1968 film and gently lays Spiritualized's incredible catalog underneath for a truly amazing viewing experience.
"What we wanted to do was to take a piece of film and a completely unrelated body of music and to sync them up to each other while maintaining the integrity in both works as stand-alones," said PXL in an interview. "After months of work, we think that's what we got." (for details on how to obtain your 5.1 Surround Sound version of the film, email us at pxl@thealmightysound or visit www.thealmightysound.com
Why '2001: A Space Odyssey'?
"'2001' worked because it's a film that isn't dialogue-driven. If you watch the film in its original state, you can plainly see that music inherently plays a larger role in the film time-wise than does the dialogue. The film's content and cinematography also lend themselves very well to this type of project."
Why Spiritualized?
"Spiritualized has been a favorite band of ours for a long time. We have a great deal of respect for the work they do and the manner in which they convey that work to the world. They were a natural choice because of the content of their music, but also because stylistically the music they make is so cinematic in nature as well."
How much editing was done?
"The film was not edited at all except for the starting point. We had to delay the beginning of the film by about 1 minute and and 28 seconds to accomodate a titlecard and make it match up with the first track. The rest of the film is completely unmanipulated.
"The music was a little bit of a different story. Some cuts were made, some splices and a few time-stretches, but we really strived to maintain the core elements of each song as they were originally intended to be heard by the band. All of the edits were meant to be entirely transparent and anyone who can tell they're there is either lying or is a member of Spiritualized."
How will people be able to view the finished product?
"Those who want to see it immedeatley can view it on this website here or on Google Video in its entirety, or on The Almighty Sound's YouTube page [see LINKS] for individual songs. Those that are more concerned with fidelity and quality of both audio and video can download the DVD through the BitTorrent Network."
What formats will people be able to download through BitTorrent?
"We will have a dual layer DVD-Video iso available for those that wish to see and hear the film in higher quality. That disc image will be able to be mounted in a virtual drive or burned to disc for viewing in home players. These downloads will be available to download for free.
"Other, more compressed formats will also be available for download, as well, such as a good quality DivX file and even a mp4 rip for iPod video and iPhone."
What kind of compensation will The Almighty Sound receive for this project? Are you being paid by Warner Bros. (owners of Kubrick's film) or by Sony BMG/Arista (Spiritualized's record label)?
"None. Zero. We only wanted to express the ideas of synergy that we had about this film and these songs. In the process we hope to turn fans of one into fans of the other. It would be cool, though, if those companies got together to include this score as an extra on the commercial DVD.
"In the spirit of exposing folks to this music and the film, we would like to encourage those that view the film and like it to go out and purchase a copy of Kubrick's films and all of Spiritualized's albums. Both are worth your time and money. If you enjoy it, please help to support them. They worked hard on these things, far harder than we did."
Does The Almighty Sound have any other sync projects planned in the near future?
"No. This was too much work for no money to continue doing this on a regular basis. We have to move on to something even a little profitable. Don't get me wrong, we've had other ideas, brainstormed a few things, but for now we're writing a new record that should be out by New Year's Day 2010.
"We are, however, planning several improvements to '2001 vs. SPZ' including correcting errors in the subtitles, making them easier to read, normalizing the audio levels from track to track, adding menus and the trailer, and even an option to play the film in 5.1 surround sound. We hope for it to be completed in early 2010." For information on how to get your copy, e-mail us at pxl@thealmightysound.com
taken from Jason's personal new blog @http://spiritualizedlive.blogspot.com/
my cents; i would like to know Jason's review of this as the trailer, to me, just looks like a music video rather than art piece.
(of which i know J. would have liked)
this clip does work well. i still need to watch the complete film as it is all on you tube.
3/14/10
2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey
About the Project
On 10 September 2008 The Almighty Sound finally released their much anticipated film project, '2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey'. The project takes the video and subtitles from Kubrick's masterpiece 1968 film and gently lays Spiritualized's incredible catalog underneath for a truly amazing viewing experience.
"What we wanted to do was to take a piece of film and a completely unrelated body of music and to sync them up to each other while maintaining the integrity in both works as stand-alones," said PXL in an interview. "After months of work, we think that's what we got." (for details on how to obtain your 5.1 Surround Sound version of the film, email us at pxl@thealmightysound or visit www.thealmightysound.com
Why '2001: A Space Odyssey'?
"'2001' worked because it's a film that isn't dialogue-driven. If you watch the film in its original state, you can plainly see that music inherently plays a larger role in the film time-wise than does the dialogue. The film's content and cinematography also lend themselves very well to this type of project."
Why Spiritualized?
"Spiritualized has been a favorite band of ours for a long time. We have a great deal of respect for the work they do and the manner in which they convey that work to the world. They were a natural choice because of the content of their music, but also because stylistically the music they make is so cinematic in nature as well."
How much editing was done?
"The film was not edited at all except for the starting point. We had to delay the beginning of the film by about 1 minute and and 28 seconds to accomodate a titlecard and make it match up with the first track. The rest of the film is completely unmanipulated.
"The music was a little bit of a different story. Some cuts were made, some splices and a few time-stretches, but we really strived to maintain the core elements of each song as they were originally intended to be heard by the band. All of the edits were meant to be entirely transparent and anyone who can tell they're there is either lying or is a member of Spiritualized."
How will people be able to view the finished product?
"Those who want to see it immedeatley can view it on this website here or on Google Video in its entirety, or on The Almighty Sound's YouTube page [see LINKS] for individual songs. Those that are more concerned with fidelity and quality of both audio and video can download the DVD through the BitTorrent Network."
What formats will people be able to download through BitTorrent?
"We will have a dual layer DVD-Video iso available for those that wish to see and hear the film in higher quality. That disc image will be able to be mounted in a virtual drive or burned to disc for viewing in home players. These downloads will be available to download for free.
"Other, more compressed formats will also be available for download, as well, such as a good quality DivX file and even a mp4 rip for iPod video and iPhone."
What kind of compensation will The Almighty Sound receive for this project? Are you being paid by Warner Bros. (owners of Kubrick's film) or by Sony BMG/Arista (Spiritualized's record label)?
"None. Zero. We only wanted to express the ideas of synergy that we had about this film and these songs. In the process we hope to turn fans of one into fans of the other. It would be cool, though, if those companies got together to include this score as an extra on the commercial DVD.
"In the spirit of exposing folks to this music and the film, we would like to encourage those that view the film and like it to go out and purchase a copy of Kubrick's films and all of Spiritualized's albums. Both are worth your time and money. If you enjoy it, please help to support them. They worked hard on these things, far harder than we did."
Does The Almighty Sound have any other sync projects planned in the near future?
"No. This was too much work for no money to continue doing this on a regular basis. We have to move on to something even a little profitable. Don't get me wrong, we've had other ideas, brainstormed a few things, but for now we're writing a new record that should be out by New Year's Day 2010.
"We are, however, planning several improvements to '2001 vs. SPZ' including correcting errors in the subtitles, making them easier to read, normalizing the audio levels from track to track, adding menus and the trailer, and even an option to play the film in 5.1 surround sound. We hope for it to be completed in early 2010." For information on how to get your copy, e-mail us at pxl@thealmightysound.com
taken from Jason's personal new blog @http://spiritualizedlive.blogspot.com/
my cents; i would like to know Jason's review of this as the trailer, to me, just looks like a music video rather than art piece.
(of which i know J. would have liked)
this clip does work well. i still need to watch the complete film as it is all on you tube.
