First, I knew this had to be in an environment that we could control, and get the highest quality audio recording, including multi-tracked isolated audio signals without using isolation booths. There were several components to make this all work the day of the shoot: They were up for the experiment, now we would just have to find a time in their busy schedule to make it work! Getting everyone together on a particular date was one of the major challenges of this.Ĭlearly there was a sophisticated team in place, can you illuminate some details about the production process, team and timeline? I reached out to them, and to my delight they had seen the Connecting Music and Gesture project and liked it very much. I felt that to get a general audience interested in this, we would want to work with a really well known group, and I couldn't think of anyone better than Kronos Quartet, known for their openness to experimentation, and being in existence for more than 40 years. What we found was really interesting to us and that there really was a whole world of subtle interactions that would be interesting to try and reveal. To see if this made sense, we met up with a casual quartet composed of some musicians that Dan knew, to watch them play and discuss some of the issues of communication with them. Some time after, Dan came to us with the idea that the Quartet could use a similar kind of treatment to give people an inside look at the subtle kinds of communication that musicians use to make it all work. Daniel Wakin, our culture editor, conducted (no pun intended) the interview for that project. For that project we put renowned conductor Alan Gilbert in a motion capture suit to represent his movements in a new, engaging way … make the invisible visible, etc. Like most projects we do, it was in a sense an iteration on something we did previously, in this case a project called Connecting Music and Gesture which aimed to demystify conducting. This is a crazy project, how did it come about?
But for the foreseeable future morel will be evolving to take on only a few special projects while we explore some individual opportunities that have arisen.Īs always we are grateful to you for your support and we can’t wait to share the next chapter with you. We’ve always seen morel as an evolving collective, a mind meld where we come together to make stuff we care about, and it will continue to be so. We feel incredibly lucky to have been able to work on the range of projects with the teams of people that we have.Īnd the journey continues but now down a slightly different path. We have more in the works too! Look for a personal interactive documentary about Ocean Falls made in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, a fresh, new branding system for Thunder 11, and a new digital multimedia magazine about immigration made with Talking Eyes Media, VII Photography and Rutgers University called Newest Americans. And along the way we enjoyed publishing own quirky newsletter, Foraged where we feature oddities and findings on the web while featuring a few super talented curators.
We helped create a new framework for Storyful, and blasted off on a crazy space adventure with the Voyager Mission for National Geographic. We built a new branding system and website for The Center for Digital Arts and animated the importance of the Census.
Since then we collaborated with The Marshall Project to create a destination place for the conversation around the criminal justice system. Morel is the creative collective space where we brainstorm, drink strong coffee, get giddy over inspiring projects, and work together to generate solutions to problems we are passionate about.
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