Music Video Asheville 2011 Winners and Playlist!

Music Video Asheville 2011 was produced by  FoAM (The Future of Asheville Music) and this year was sponsored by Music Allies as  part of HATCH. Echo Mountain Recording and the Media Arts Project were also major sponsors of this year’s event which was held at the Fine Arts Theatre in downtown. You can also check out a more complete playlist at http://www.youtube.com/user/Dreamspiderweb#grid/user/C47697E0230DC2DD.

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The night was a big success and with-out further ado the winners are:

Placing 1st, winning both the Best of MVA Music Allies Judges Choice Award AND the Crowd Favorite is Kovacs and the Polar Bear, “Skeleton Crew” directed by Joe Chang with the Paper Picture Company:

The Runner-Up for the Best of MVA Music Allies Judges award, winning a free day of studio time in Echo Mountain Recording, is Secret Agent 23 Skidoo with “Chase the Rain” directed by Daniel Judson:

The Crowd Favorite Runner-up is Jonathan Scales “Muddy Vishnu” directed by Daniel Judson:

The FOAM Core also chose three honorable mentions going to:

Jar-E “Plot” directed by Steven Tingle:

Stephanie’s Id “Documentary” directed by Paul Chelmis

Juan Holiday “Seal it Tight” directed by Kurt Mann:

Groundbreaking Mentor and Featured Artists for MVA 2011 is Ben Lovett.

Lovett showed three videos and spoke about the films that he has been making for his upcoming album debut, Highway Collection.  Viral video explosion of their first single, “Eye Of The Storm,” directed by Chris Alender with Soapbox Films, is a cinematic gem that has gobbled up a million views in 4 weeks on the web, and it’s follow-up, the foot-stomping, barn burner single, “Heart Attack,” directed by David Bragg with Flying Pig Studios.

Lovett also debuted their newest video “The Fear” directed by David Bruckner with Wasteland Pictures:

To see the playlist for Music Video Asheville 2011 visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dreamspiderweb#grid/user/C47697E0230DC2DD

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Music Video Asheville tickets on sale now! National Music Industry Exposure & Music Allies Grand Prize for Participants

Click to visit the MVA website

FOAM and HATCH Present the 4th annual MUSIC VIDEO ASHEVILLE to showcase the pairing of Asheville musicians and filmmakers. We are thrilled to announce this year’s Music Video Asheville is presented by HATCH and sponsored by Music Allies, Creative Allies, Echo Mountain Recording, and fiscal sponsor The Media Arts Project. The MVA Mission is to increase the awareness and appreciation of Asheville musicians and filmmakers/ videographers by showcasing their collaborative works in a public event. The MVA screening is open to the public and takes place on Wednesday, April 13th, 2010 at the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Asheville starting at 7pm. Tickets are available now for $6 each at the Fine Arts Theater, Mamacitas, Static Age, Harvest Records, and Orbitz DVD.

Music Video Asheville will be highlighting the music video achievements of Ben Lovett and featuring amazing animation video “Eye of the Storm” (See below). MVA is honored to have Lovett give a Q&A session during the event. MVA has invited the producers of his three videos to come and speak as well.

MVA’s partnership with HATCH and Music Allies has landed MVA some exciting judges for the “Best of Music Video Asheville 2011 Award.” MVA’s guest panel will include the following mentors from HATCH: Malcolm Campbell – Publisher of Spin, Sean O’Connell – Founder of Music Allies and  Creative Allies, Crissa Requate – Director of Publicity Music Allies, and Tor Hansen – Founder Red Eye Distribution / Yep Roc Records. All their bios are on the hatchexperience.com site.

Music Allies has generously offered a $500 cash prize for the Best of MVA winner and Echo Mountain Recording Studio has offered a full day in the studio for the runner up. The other big prize is the “Crowd Favorite Award” which will receive a large portion of the ticket sales to the event! The MVA Submission Board will give a series of honorable mention trophies for outstanding work as well.

Artists that have submitted to this year’s MVA include: Ben Lovett, Acoustic Syndicate, Agent 23 Skidoo, Aaron Woody Wood, Stephanie’s id, Mad Tea Party, Jar-e, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Rock Eblen, Enemy Lovers, Alisa Kumba, Kovacs and the Polar Bear, Jen and the Juice, Brian McGee, Juan Holiday, Chompin at the Bit String Band, Now You See Them, Ten Cent Poetry, Quetzatl, GalaxC Girl , Serious Clark, and many more… See them all on the big screen…

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Attendees are encouraged to dress-up glamorously and quarkly awesome!
Music Video Asheville tickets on sale now! http://musicvideoasheville.com/tickets/

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More info about film mentor, Ben Lovett’s ‘Eye of the Storm’:

“The self-released first single, “Eye of the Storm,” showcases Lovett’s uncanny knack for storytelling and production with its haunting vocals and acoustic guitar expertly melded with somber cello and violin into a lush watercolor of sound. The song’s visual counterpart, directed by Chris Alender of Soapbox Films, is a stunning steampunk masterpiece that became a viral sensation, generating over 2 million plays in its first month.” ~ http://themusebox.net/lovett:

“Set in a visually arresting steampunk world, ‘Eye of the Storm’ is the epic tale of a lonely sky captain who must literally and figuratively brave a raging tempest in order to find his salvation on the other side. Featuring the music by Lovett” ~ http://atlanta.bside.com/2011/films/eyeofthestorm_christopheralender_atlanta2011

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Lingua Musica’s World Premier at the White Horse in Black Mtn on Sept 29th! Grammer School, Stephanie Morgan, River Guerguerian, Fred Mills & More

Lingua Musica
Wednesday September 29th, 2010
White Horse Black Mountain

discussions for the eve: “Music Business 101” & “Great Concerts”
House band for the eve is Grammer School
7pm, $7
828-669-0816
105C Montreat Road
Black Mountain, NC

www.linguamusicalive.com

www.whitehorseblackmountain.com

(Black Mountain, NC) Lingua Musica is the first live music talk show to bring online viewers into the conversation with a live studio audience in Western North Carolina. Lingua Musica streams live online from the White Horse in Black Mountain on Wednesday, September 29th at 7pm at www.linguamusicalive.com.

WNCW midday host Joe Kendrick hosts the show, which showcases a rotating cast of musicians, music journalists, and industry professionals as panelists who talk about music news, history, and culture while inviting the audience to take part. Kendrick has produced the music-based talk show “What It Is” weekdays on WNCW since October 2007. Lingua Musica is ran independently by Kendrick and few others in the community. The pilot show was held August 12th.

Lingua Musica streams live to the internet and takes viewer comments on its website as well as through twitter. The roundtable of panelists are able to respond to the online audience, creating a continuous loop of conversation that connects the “live” audience with the virtual audience. Shows will be archived for a social network of registered users who are passionate about live music and conversation.

The show is an hour long, with two conversations on the topics followed by music from the Lingua Musica house band. The September 29th musical guest is Asheville, NC trio Grammer School. Grammer School was one of the finalists to perform at WNC Magazine’s Orange Peel contest for the “Last Band Standing”. Check out a video of them:

September 29th panelists include:

* musician Stephanie Morgan of Stephanie’s Id
* multipercussionist, composer and educator River Guerguerian
* Blurt Magazine music editor Fred Mills

The show features three to four panelists at a time as they rotate on and off stage for each topic of conversation.The September 29th show includes the following topics:

1. “Music Business 101” A look at the industry from all angles, Lingua Musica tackles how to make a living in music and how music lovers can help their favorite artists, venues and labels in the process.

2. “Great Concerts” We invite everyone to share their favorite concert memories and cautionary tales in this conversation about everything from the great shows we missed to house parties and everything in between.

Please join us for the World Premier of Lingua Musica for an evening of music and conversation!

You can find Lingua Musica on Twitter at twitter.com/linguamusica. Also find them on facebook  by clicking the photo from the August 12th pilot show below:

River makes some great points on what he would do with the musical magic wand

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Archive: A couple great articles about LAAFF 2010!

Check out these couple articles about LAAFF in Bold Life and the Laurel of Asheville.

Arch-itects of Sound

AUGUST 25, 2010 www.boldlife.com

BY ROBIN TOLLESON

Bele Chere is bigger, but LAAFF may be better.

The Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Fest, sponsored by Arts 2 People, is more distinctively Asheville. Local artists and artisans get to shine, and stages welcome the area’s more interesting musical acts, like The Archrivals, fronted by keyboardist/vocalist Chuck Lichtenberger. Lichtenberger delivers engaging, provocative pop in his alter-ego role as the party-leading Archrival, retro-hoopster sporting Afro and shades, 6th man off the bench for the Dominican Republic National Team.

Lichtenberger is best known from his work with indie-rockers Stephanie’s Id. The Archrivals’ self-titled debut CD will explain a lot about the Id’s sound. “It’s been brewing for a long time,” Lichtenberger says. “We focus a lot of our energy on Stephanie’s Id. When it’s time to do it, we do it. With The Archrivals, it’s like we do it when we can. It’s going to be a little different now, I think.”

READ the FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.boldlife.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15650

and here is the Laurel of Asheville article:  Click here and go to page 25 to see it online:

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Music Video Asheville winners announced and YouTube Playlist!

Music Video Asheville last night, Wednesday March 10th, was a great success! All of the FoAMcore want to thank each and every musician, filmmaker, costume designer, and everyone else that may have been involved in creating any of the videos that were submitted to MVA this year!

To check out videos from most participants, please visit Dreamspider’s YouTube Channel and see the MVA 2010 playlist. (*not all videos could be found on YouTube, therefore some that were played at MVA are not on the playlist. If you know of a video from MVA that is now on YouTube to add to the playlist, please add a comment below with the link to the video)

The official list of award recipients is posted below.

Audience Choice award

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Best Music Video

Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo~ “Family Tree”

Director ~ Daniel Judson, Digital Media Foundry

 

 

Audience Choice Runner Up

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Best Animated Video

Ice Horse ~ “Planet Icehorse ep. 1”

Director ~ Jamie Vitt

Ice Horse YouTube Channel

 

 

Best Live Performance Video:

stephanie’s id ~ “Drinking at a Party”

Director ~ Pat Haney, Caley Lyles

 

Best Experimental Video:

Pleasure Device ~ “Pleasure Device”

Director ~ GalaxC Girl, Wonderous Temple

 

 

 

 

Best Music Documentary:

Toubab Krewe, “Bob Moog Foundation”

Director ~ Villasonica, Studio South, Elijapa Media, Echo Mountain

Moog Foundation: moogfoundation.org

Toubab Krewe: toubabkrewe.com

Villasonica and Studio South: villasonica.com

Check out this other documentary by the same filmmakers for Pop Asheville:

 

 

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