Timber (piece of music)
Timber (from the English term for lumber ) is a piece of music by the group Coldcut from 1998, with which they protested against the deforestation of the tropical rainforest . The music video , which was created in collaboration with the video artists Hexstatic , attracted a great deal of attention, as the samples of chainsaws, splintering trees or knocking beetles used for the piece were still synchronously linked to the associated video images. This method was probably first used by Holger Hiller in 1988 for his video "Ohi Ho Bang Bang", in the context of the experimental film by filmmakers like Claus Blume ("Kniespiel III", 1990).
Coldcut's musicians used a video mix software they had programmed themselves called VJamm. The material was made available to Coldcut by Greenpeace . The video won a French television award, the MCM Best Video Editing Award . It was remixed a total of four times , making it into the Guinness Book of Records for the single with the most video remixes.
Since the published CD-ROM contained several video remixes in addition to the actual music pieces, "Timber" was not considered a single according to the regulations of the British phono industry and for this reason did not appear in the British Top 100 despite good sales figures.
Web links
- Timber - Short version of the video clip on the website of the Ninja Tune label
- Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Off-Key Continuities: Audiovisual Interventions by the Video Bands Metamkine and Granular Synthesis ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Heinrich Deisl, vjtheory.net
- ↑ Coldcut - Controlled Comeback
