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Post by eine2006 on Jun 18, 2007 23:43:48 GMT -5
not yet. i do have it. i'm moving this coming week so everything's a bit of a mess. it's on my other computer which is already packed. if you can wait another week or so then i can definately send it to you. or maybe someone else who has it can upload it.
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Post by ndfanforever on Jun 19, 2007 7:27:02 GMT -5
not yet. i do have it. i'm moving this coming week so everything's a bit of a mess. it's on my other computer which is already packed. if you can wait another week or so then i can definately send it to you. or maybe someone else who has it can upload it. Thanks! No rush! |
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Post by Modern Method. on Jul 17, 2007 3:39:31 GMT -5
She just posted a new blog entitled "Coast".
Go have a look-see... i think she is on a holiday.
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Post by ndfanforever on Aug 5, 2007 1:25:56 GMT -5
Whoa. Major ADM update. New album + concept film + graphic novel to be released... xmadmx.com/ |
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 5, 2007 8:04:52 GMT -5
SWEET MOTHER OF THE DIVINE!!!
This looks amazing! I totally did not see this coming at all. The music on the site is sweet bliss and it feels great to hear her voice again in new ways.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 17, 2007 18:30:12 GMT -5
Melissa Auf Der Maur is still working on her upcoming album, but fans can get a glimpse into the upcoming OOOM: The Sound That No One Hears project through a new link on her website.
The project appears to have some connection to or association with the film Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America. The link shows the word "OOOM" spelled out. But by clicking on each letter, one is led to different sections. One includes information on "Out Of Our Minds," a "concept fantasy world, spawned from sound" and created by the musician.
According to the link, the story revolves around three different narratives during three different time periods. A rather bizarre video presented by MadM Fantasy and Heathen Films appears to include Auf Der Maur in a brief snippet. The video also shows trees being cut down and bleeding as a Norse or Viking character roams through the forest.
"Shadowing psychedelic rock films/albums of the past, this is a fantasy noise experiment that fills, unavoidably, a void in today's musical landscape," the message continues. "OOOM is a search for refuge from an unknown enemy. Is a place where healing powers are cloaked from our view and reverse ecowarriors of the 19th century shred their valley of ancient trees. All scenes/sounds exist in parallel worlds."
It's unknown if Auf Der Maur composed music for the project, but song snippets could be heard on different pages.
The project, slated to be released either in late 2007 or early 2008, will be the first from Auf Der Maur since releasing her self-titled debut album in 2004. She previously played with Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.
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Post by Modern Method. on Sept 5, 2007 4:47:25 GMT -5
Source : Jam.ca
Former Smashing Pumpkins/Hole bassist Melissa auf der Maur has completed her second solo album, "Out Of Our Minds," and it's part of a multidisciplinary Viking-themed project that includes a short film and comic book. They will all be released under her initials, MADM (pronounced "madam").
"This is the early stages of this brave new world of multi-media and this potentially alternative business model of mine," she says. "A lot is to-be-determined beyond the three creative elements that are in their final stages -- art is done; business is to be done."
The Montreal-based Auf der Maur no longer has a record deal (she was on Capitol) and is looking forward to finding a business partner who could potentially release the entire artistic package. She recently attended Comic Con International, the world's largest comic book convention.
"I was basically building relationships because those comic book companies are crossing over into film and video games. Why not music?" she says. "It was so inspiring to be in an atmosphere, where in terms of creativity, the weirder the better, the more original the better. It's not about fitting into any box. That's my new world."
An avid sci-fi fan also fascinated by Viking legend, she knew she wanted to make a concept album off the top.
"I had originally been thinking that it was going to be more theatrical within the record," she says. "There would be interludes and storytelling because it started off as basically a hunt for the heart, as a timeless female force looking for every type of heart possible, be it the heart of the cosmic universe or a physical heart out of a warrior Viking -- the heart being a symbol that is within everything.
"And so it started off as a concept that I then, once I wrote the record, based on [the fact that] a lot of the songs are always returning to the thought of the heart -- it starts with a heartbeat; it ends with a heartbeat; there are heartbeats within it -- I decided that I had a story to tell that couldn't just be told in a song."
The album was self-produced with Jordan Zadorozny in Pembroke, Ontario, and Chris Goss in Los Angeles, in separate recording sessions. Goss produced her 2004 solo debut, released simply as "auf der Maur." Zadorozny of Blinker The Star was in her first band Tinker and is her long-time collaborator, who also wrote with Courtney Love. As with the last album, au der Maur sings, plays bass, guitar and keys. Guests include Ryan Adams, Priestess's Vince Nudo and ex-Tinker Steve Durand.
"The album is pretty different from the last one, but, to me, it seems like a natural evolution," says auf der Maur. "It's far more dynamic. The last one was straight-ahead rock, I guess, but this one goes from heavy to atmospheric to sometimes just piano and five female voices to instrumental interludes. It's far more diverse."
She then met up with this filmmaker in New York, Tony Stone, whose first feature, "Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America," just premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. "Anything to do with Vikings, I immediately respond to because if there wasn't a Viking soul in me, I wouldn't make rock music. Vikings are a symbol of a male archetype I channel into the making of rock music, just as I turn to Glenn Danzig for inspiration. These male forces, help balance the woman in me," she explains.
The film is 30-minutes in length and includes a totally separate soundtrack to the songs on the album. It also contains no dialogue, but is instead scored by instrumental, psychedelic, trance-y rock music, says Auf Der Maur, who stars in it. She says the short, which was shot in Vermont on 20 acres of land Stone's parents purchased in the sixties, is a surreal time-travel fantasy that jumps between three time-periods --present day, 10th century (the Viking Age) and the 19th-century (at a logging camp).
"In my mind, it was like a 'Twilight Zone' episode that could continue into a mini-series if it wanted to or maybe even a Twin Peaks [type] episode, something that a vague story and a cliffhanger to be continued. Because it's time travel and because it's fantasy, it's endless," she says.
"So I started the collaboration with Tony and immediately had the idea -- because it's all fantasy stuff -- of, well, a comic book would obviously be the other way to tell this story."
She then joined forces with New York's Kevin McCleod, a.k.a. Mastermind, whom auf der Maur calls "a good friend and wild forward thinker gamer and web maniac." Working together on the storyline and look (she did not draw), she says, the comic "reflects" the album and film. "It's almost like the things outside of the frame that you might not have seen, which is again the idea of being able to be continued."
Auf der Maur, who taking a photography major at Concordia University in Montreal when she joined Hole in 1994, and has since been published in Nylon, Bust, Mastermind (McLeod's zine), Harper's Bazaar, and had her photos on display in The Kids Are Alright exhibit at Sotheby's, New York, has also photographed every step of Out Of Our Minds. "So I have a lot of amazing photos of this amazing journey which will be part of this evolving, multi-media," she says.
"I'm a visual artist fundamentally and music was a side note and it's just time for me to bring them all together -- storytelling, visuals, and music all in one." She has a web component too at xmadmx.com. Auf der Maur is looking at Out Of Our Minds as a life-long project that will be continued.
"Creatively, it made sense to create content, knowing how I like to consume things, where I want to find new version of things to keep me engaged," she explains. "People don't necessarily have to vision to create the business version of it, which is where I'm at a loss because I spent two years creating the content. Now, I need somebody to help me figure out how to do it and I think it's a bit over people's heads, but I'm doing my job. I'm talking to people and getting ideas."
"MADM represents an eternal female force, travelling through time and space, on the hunt for the 'heart,' be it a human's heart or the heart of the universe," auf der Maur told Lowdown in an exclusive interview. "It's almost like a myth or fairytale that is explored in all elements: the album, the film, the comic -- as well as the web. Every one of them explores it differently.
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Post by ndfanforever on Sept 5, 2007 10:01:20 GMT -5
Holy crap. This project sounds genius.
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Post by Modern Method. on Feb 5, 2008 5:10:46 GMT -5
Old article but expands on what the new project is all about: www.nme.com/news/melissa-auf-der-maur/32094Melissa Auf der Maur to return with multimedia project 26.Oct.07 12:14pm Former Smashing Pumpkins' bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur will return next year with a multimedia project encompassing music, film, comic books and the internet, she has revealed. In addition to an album of new material, she will spin out her vision across an ARG (alternative reality game), over a fantasy film series, soundtrack and an interactive website. A teaser for the project can currently be found at xmadmx.com. "On a very broad level, it's the eternal female force on the hunt for the heart," she told NME.COM of the project's theme. "The healers versus the hunters. It could be the heart of the universe, it could be literally the physical human heart. Its the hunt for the centre of life. "The broad original concept broke down into songs and into a few storylines. It's also very much for people to determine themselves, but the general thing is 'get the fuck out of our minds and into our heart' and just follow the feminine force to the centre of everything, which is the heart." Auf der Maur found herself on such an unusual path after restructuring at her record label Capitol left her with an excess of time on her hands. "After I wrote over two and a half albums' worth of material and had more than an album recorded, I thought 'I'm gonna have to start telling the story in another way. It then became a half-hour fantasy time travel film involving vikings and witches, but also modern day car crashes and this whole scary freaky thing that then translated into a comic book, and then I met this amazing comic book team. "It's a long unfolding of a bigger story. Each element can be 'to be continued'. There is potentially a 12-part comic book and there is potentially a six-part mini-series film." Though keen to spin details out gradually, Auf der Maur revealed that she would not be playing herself in the series. "I am a witch in the year 1007, a magic healing witch, and a sort of lost-in-time 1940s secretary. It could be the same person, because it is me, but it might also just be any woman." Considering the breadth of the project, Auf der Maur said she would consider following Radiohead's lead in giving the music itself away for free. She said: "I almost would like to just give the music away if I could, we'll see. There will be an album, but there's also an extra album of material and instead of maybe putting out an album of B-sides maybe I'll just be giving away extra songs. There's also the soundtrack for the film, which is totally instrumental, totally separate from the album, so there's a lot of music to be had within the whole project." Meanwhile, NME.COM met Melissa in her hometown of Montreal last week. You can watch her tour of the city on our video blog Toomuchinformation. |
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Post by Modern Method. on Mar 1, 2008 5:39:33 GMT -5
Melissa contributed guest vocals to Neverending White Lights', which consists of musician Daniel Victor and guests, latest album; 'ACT II: the blood and the life eternal'. She's featured on a track called 'The World is Darker', which you can listen to on Neverending White Lights' Myspace.
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Post by Modern Method. on Mar 1, 2008 5:40:04 GMT -5
Melissa is set to appear in Neverending White Lights' music video for 'The World Is Darker'. They finished filming earlier this month, I don't know when the video will be released, but will keep a look out for it, ofcourse.
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Post by Modern Method. on Mar 13, 2008 12:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by Modern Method. on Mar 19, 2008 13:17:14 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Melissa!
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Post by Modern Method. on Jul 28, 2008 5:24:01 GMT -5
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Post by midori21 on Aug 2, 2008 11:28:28 GMT -5
i can't wait.. i loved her debute album. and she is the only reason why i'm still listening to hole  |
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Post by Garbage Addict on Aug 7, 2008 4:42:03 GMT -5
I love her debut - Followed the Waves, Real A Lie, Taste You etc love it! Yes please let us know bout the french version be cool to get! What is going on with this album - my mate who is a huuuge fan can't even find stuff out
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 11, 2008 17:25:53 GMT -5
Haha, thats because she never posts anything to be found out! In my books, it will be a miracle if the album gets released at all this year.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 14, 2008 15:46:31 GMT -5
New Blog:
"THE WOLF INSIDE
An elder Cherokee Native American
was teaching his grandchildren about life.
He said to them,
"A fight is going on inside me...
It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves.
One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow,
regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,
inferiority, lies, pride and superiority.
The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope,
sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,
friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion,
and faith.
This same fight is going on inside of you
and every other person too."
They thought about it for a minute
and then one child asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one I feed."
OUR EMOTIONS CONTROL THE OCEANS...
xMAdMx"
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 29, 2008 17:15:34 GMT -5
New Blog 29/08/2008
"FEEL THE BREEZE
feel the need.
wow. those flags fly with determination don't they?
i guess things have to be really broken
to kick a group in the ass towards change.
hop on the wagon and hope.
bouncy bouncy we shall wake up?
blue team all stars speaking up
clearly speaking for a group in fear.
eat a banana
light a candle
talk to your neighbor
call your friends
register to vote
remind others to if you don't
back to school
looking good
believe it or not,
the sharing comes soon.
hilariously late but true....
i will be connecting with you in ether form
before the blues take over the white
xMAdMx"
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 29, 2008 17:16:07 GMT -5
She needs to share already!!
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