The Horizon is conveyed by the soulful saxophone solo at the center of the track. The motion of the ocean waves is represented by the bass-driven percussive groove, while the rays of the sunlight are captured by the atmosphere of the rhythmic pads and floating effects.
The video is made by Danya Vodovoz and features the vibrant watercolor paintings of Arsen Nasibulin.
The song, „El Topo“, is partially inspired by the films of David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Danya Vodovoz used Jodorowsky’s film „El Topo“, for the name of the song, since he could imagine his music as an imaginary soundtrack of this nearly forgotten masterpiece. The unusual structure and rhythm of the track were developed by jamming to a vinyl record playing the rhythmic noise of the lead out groove, in combination with an old guitar loop from an eight-track tape recorder. This all happened spontaneously after a night of partying at Danya’s studio. Director’s note (Juan Garnica): „The story takes on many roles and it is intended to not be understood easily. In the video, we wanted to show a little bit of irony that a rather newer-looking vehicle would break down in the middle of nowhere. As she begins walking, she finds a pair of reading glasses. The glasses symbolize that she needs to clearly see what lies ahead of her and she needs to see the reason why she’s in the middle of nowhere for no specific reason. She sees a man holding the same pair of reading glasses nodding his head as if to say, “Yes, you are seeing me.” She continues walking and finds a plastic horse, the horse symbolizes her mobility through the desert. As she continues hiking, she finds a book, and open it to the poem that tells her that she’s been home all along.
Location: Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas
Director: Juan Garnica
Actress: Azusena Saray
About this video: Christopher Hunt is a London based writer and video director, with an interest in semiotics, symbolism, surrealism, graphics, and photography. It was for this reason that he was compelled to write, direct and shoot „Flourished“ in collaboration with German-based music producer Danya Vodovoz. The use of VR (virtual reality) is similar to a lucid dream where a person can be immersed into a world of unreality, meanwhile believing that it is true. It was a converging of these two ideas that Christopher wanted within the script and to find ways of exploiting them visually. Interestingly, while most people report dreaming in color, there is a small percentage of people who claim to only dream in black and white. So to produce „Flourished“ in black and white was an alternative away from normality. Dreams are apparently, an accumulation of things we experience during the day as stored information. However, we can also benefit from dreaming because it acts as a filter for defining reality. Ideas can flow from the process of what happens after sleeping because the subconscious is in the background processing the data and filtering the rubbish from the good. That is why people are known to say „let me sleep on it“. We are unique because we can live what we conjure up from our thoughts or ideas that have been processed during sleep, although we may not remember what we dreamt most of the time. „Flourished“ is about the positive way we manifest our ideas, thoughts, dreams, desire, and things we may have on our minds and finally bring them to life the next day. The work was the inspiration of Russian filmmaker, Tarkovsky, and shot in black and white with elements of dark and light scenes because he knew how to captivate the viewer. Also, the aim was to have more than just a meaningless music video, and the idea to overlay Shakespeare quotes on selected imagery helped to encapsulate meaning. The more you look when you replay the video, the more meaning one might find. For example, the flowers on the table at the beginning of the scene, the leaves blowing in the wind, the actress entrapped in budding flowers, and her struggle to touch reality encased in a virtual world. Our brain is very capable of reading between the lines, and this is probably the reason why we can construct preconceived ideas and ignore the truth. Knowing this fact helps to exploit many possibilities in the video. It is not until further analysis and evaluation over time that we can find the truth. Combining all these elements in the video is a culmination of synchronization, movement, and emotion.
Credit goes to the Actress Giulia Cipriani, who put her soul into each scene, down to shedding tears on cue, and Emelia Millar, age 5, in her first role.
The next script in Christopher’s research is a video to promote the products of London hi-fi designer Nic Poulson of Trilogy Audio. It will be another collaboration with Danya and probably very surreal.
We are really glad that you use our music in so many creative ways! In this video, we have assembled a few clips from YouTubers and companies that feature our music in their ads and films. The music on our channel is FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE to help create more amazing videos and for your listening pleasure.
Here are a few notes to keep things fair for everyone: Royalty Free Licensing: If you are a private person and you would like to use this track in your own podcast or videocast (no monetization!), just add: Vodovoz Music Productions and a link to this video in your description.
If you would like to use our music in company and business ads or in monetized videos, then you would need to purchase a Commercial License from our Bandcamp page https://vodovoz.bandcamp.com You will find individual links to the licenses of every song in the description box under each video!
Feel free to contact us for a Commercial Web License or any other license: contact@vodovoz.de
By the way, here is an interesting article if you’re not sure what royalty-free music really means: https://vodovoz.de/category/what-is-royalty-free-music/
Danya’s album Motion Machine features waves of sounds to keep you moving. Starting with the bouncy opener „Venice“ to the floating, wavy closer „The Sauce“, Motion Machine services your soul with extended breaks and rhythms that recharge and reenergize.
Read more at https://earmilk.com/2018/03/15/danya-vodovoz-releases-new-album-motion-machine-exclusive/#LJsxGmPZrK3cQqtK.99
Free Download: https://danyavodovoz.bandcamp.com/album/motion-machine
One of my former projects called „Anthrazit“
Anthrazit is a multi talent. He is a painter, a full blood musician, a person who develops concepts and likes to disguise himself, taking on other personalities.
His music is so colourful that it paints our black and while imaginations with bright colours.
„Synthetic Times“ is a romantic tale of a robot who expresses his feelings through a vocoder voice. Voiced operational sequences meet an electro feeling which turns into disco or rather Italy disco. It is a sexy affair which Anthrazit is executing here… a bit of an adventure… timeless… detached from trends… Reiley Reinhold
„Synthetic Times“ official video
Teaser
DIY
Contruction video of the Robot by Anthrazit.
Kit for print here: https://vodovoz.de/data/Anthrazit_robot_kit.pdf
Feel free to download your free preview here:
http://www.sampleism.com/vodovoz/progressive-house-kontakt
What is Royalty Free Music? What does it mean exactly?
There are a lot of inaccurate ideas circulating about Royalty Free Music. This article will attempt to explain exactly what Royalty Free Music is and dismiss some of the most common misinterpretations.
In a nutshell Royalty Free Music refers to a type of music licensing that allows the purchaser to pay for the music license only once and to use the music for as long as desired.
For example you purchase a Royalty Free Music license for a video on your website. You pay one single price whether you have 100 visitors or 10,000 visitors, and whether you use the music for 1 month or 10 years. Or you purchase a TV advertising license for your new restaurant. You pay once and the commercial can play once a week or 50 times a week, for 3 months or for 5 years. You pay once and you use it for as long as you want.
The term “Royalty Free” is confusing for more reasons than one. In fact it simply means “Free of Royalty”. The term is in opposition to “rights managed” licensing where the purchaser pays fees (royalties) according to the number of times it will be used as well as the size of the territory. With Rights Managed licensing or “Needle Drop” licensing you would need to pay a fee every time the music is used or as the old term expressed every time the “needle is dropped” on the record.
Just as importantly here is what Royalty Free Music does NOT mean…
Royalty Free Music is NOT free!
It is “Free of Royalty” not cost free. Just like a fat free cookie is “free of fat” not free of cost. Or a “tax free” product is not free, it is just free of taxes. And yes some people may be offering their music for free – whether it is also Royalty Free or not! For example a composer may be offering you his music for free for your College film in exchange for listing his work in the credits.
Royalty Free Music is NOT Stock Music
Although most Royalty Free Music comes from Stock Music Library such as Premiumbeat.com they are not synonymous. A Stock Music Library is a music library that offers music already in stock – already made and ready to license and use. Although some people consider Stock Music negatively as cheap “canned music” it is not the case at all. You have the full range of music quality in stock music from very amateurish poorly mixed music to highly professional music tracks. Stock music is understood in opposition to “custom made” music that is created for a specific product – a film, a commercial, a TV show… Many stock music libraries offer their music on a Royalty Free basis, but other libraries prefer to offer their music with a Rights Managed model or “per usage” based on the frequency of use as well as the size of the territory.
Royalty Free Music is NOT Copyright Free music
I am not sure there is such a thing as “Copyright free” music since anyone who creates a piece of music automatically owns the Copyright for that music. The creator may not care and say that anyone can use his music for any purpose. In this case the Copyright owner is giving you the “right to copy” his music for any purpose. So it may be free to use but that does not make it free of Copyright. And this does not mean that the composer has given up his Performing Rights if his music ends up a background music on television for example. The composer as the Copyright owner may want to receive his composers royalties for the public performance of his music. Even the recordings of Public Domain music are not Copyright Free. The composition may be Copyright Free but not the actual sound recording (also called the Master). You can read an excellent text about Copyright and Public Domain music at PDInfo.com.
Royalty Free Music is NOT a specific type of music
It can be music in any genre from Classical to Heavy Metal to Country music. Instead it is a type of “Music Licensing” for commercial use. Commercial use here means using the music for more than your private usage (your home, your car, your iPod). Private usage is the right you get when you purchase a music CD or pay and download your music from iTunes for example. That does not provide you with any broader rights (your website, your videos, your slideshows, TV shows, etc.).
Royalty Free Music is NOT poor quality music
Any music can be licensed as Royalty Free music. The good the bad and the ugly. This choice for music licensing has strictly nothing to do with the quality of the music itself. The quality will vary enormously from one library to the other. The quality of library music has more to do with management policies, whether the music is hand-picked or not, whether composers are screened or not, etc.
Royalty Free Music is NOT cheap music
Royalty free music can licensed at any price. It is not a price structure, it is simply a licensing model. You can find Royalty Free music for $30 and you can find it for $600. It has nothing to do with pricing, it has to do with the licensing model of not charging royalties each time the music is used. This being said most of the time music licensed with a Royalty Free model is inexpensive and affordable for most people.
Royalty Free Music is NOT Royalty Free!! Say what?
Usually Royalty Free Music licensing does not include “public performance” royalties. Those are royalties paid to composers when their music is performed publicly – on television for example. But these royalties are not being paid by you (the music purchaser) they are being paid by the network that is broadcasting the show where the music is performed either as a featured piece or more commonly on television as background music. Performing Rights Organizations (PRO) like ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS, etc. are being paid by the networks and are in charge of distributing the performing royalties to the music composers. So for the person purchasing the music license it is entirely Royalty Free but if fact some royalties may be paid to the composers by the PROs. Wikipedia mentions this as well on its Royalty Free Music page.
Why is it so confusing? Is there not a better term to describe Royalty Free Music?
The truth is that although I have yet to meet a single person in the industry who actually likes the term “Royalty Free Music”, it is the term that appears to be “sticking” at this time. Chances are in fact that you are reading this because you Googled these words.
Other expressions have been proposed by several people in the industry to describe Licensing from Music Libraries like Premiumbeat.com. These terms are better in many ways. But none of them are sticking for now. Here are few expressions that have been proposed to replace the confusing “Royalty Free Music”:
So should we call it One-Stop Pre-Paid Production Music Shop Licensing Library?
I guess for now we’ll stay with Royalty Free Music.
Gilles Arbour
premiumbeat