### AND THEN is a wonderful literary magazine based in New York but with content from all over the world
### The current edition has a little collaboration in it - a song with lyrics by Robert Roth and Carletta Joy Walker and music by Michael Szpakowski
### On this site there is a shockwave movie with a
performance of the song
and a karaoke backing ( You can toggle between the two with the 'song/karaoke' button provided. Both are started by pressing the triangular 'play' button bottom left. You will need the shockwave plug in for your browser )
###
You are invited to do one of two things:
(1) Record yourself ( hints for doing this ) or a friend or you & a friend or your hockey team or whatever singing the song to the karaoke backing
(2) Transform the song in some way - new lyrics, visuals, as you like really - then do step (1) or record it in some other way, video, audio, whatever...
THEN...send your finished piece (or a link where I can grab it) to karaoke@somedancersandmusicians.com to be posted on this site.. forever ( if you're mailing & it's a big file please mail me first!). Also a jpeg of yourself, or something that represents you, 240X180, would be handy
### The deadline is July 20th, although of course if a particularly brilliant one appears soon afterwards we will cheat. The result will be announced as soon after that as we can reasonably manage.
### We'd be particularly tickled to receive contributions in languages other than English
### The best piece in each category (straight karaoke or transformation) in the opinion of me, Robert & Carletta will receive a bottle of champagne
(or chocolates or something - flowers, I dunno - if you don't drink), a copy of the current AND THEN & also a copy of Robert's marvellous new book 'Health Proxy'
### We look forward eagerly to receiving your work & presenting it to the world
- it will appear here
### If you can't wait to see if you've won to get your copy of Robert's book you can order it here ( & I promise you won't regret it!):
Health Proxy
### The current edition has a little collaboration in it - a song with lyrics by Robert Roth and Carletta Joy Walker and music by Michael Szpakowski
### On this site there is a shockwave movie with a performance of the song and a karaoke backing ( You can toggle between the two with the 'song/karaoke' button provided. Both are started by pressing the triangular 'play' button bottom left. You will need the shockwave plug in for your browser )
### You are invited to do one of two things:
(1) Record yourself ( hints for doing this ) or a friend or you & a friend or your hockey team or whatever singing the song to the karaoke backing
(2) Transform the song in some way - new lyrics, visuals, as you like really - then do step (1) or record it in some other way, video, audio, whatever...
THEN...send your finished piece (or a link where I can grab it) to karaoke@somedancersandmusicians.com to be posted on this site.. forever ( if you're mailing & it's a big file please mail me first!). Also a jpeg of yourself, or something that represents you, 240X180, would be handy
### The deadline is July 20th, although of course if a particularly brilliant one appears soon afterwards we will cheat. The result will be announced as soon after that as we can reasonably manage.
### We'd be particularly tickled to receive contributions in languages other than English
### The best piece in each category (straight karaoke or transformation) in the opinion of me, Robert & Carletta will receive a bottle of champagne (or chocolates or something - flowers, I dunno - if you don't drink), a copy of the current AND THEN & also a copy of Robert's marvellous new book 'Health Proxy'
### We look forward eagerly to receiving your work & presenting it to the world - it will appear here
### If you can't wait to see if you've won to get your copy of Robert's book you can order it here ( & I promise you won't regret it!):
Health Proxy
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
Mon, 20 Aug 2007
Hi everyone
HI everyone
you all made beautiful work but we did have to choose two winners because we said we would.
It was a close run thing involving lots of transatlantic number crunching & bitten fingernails but in the end it came down to:
Karaoke category: Edward Picot
Transformation category: Himanshu Desai
We'd like to thank you all for taking the trouble to participate & we hope you're happy for Michael to retain a permanant public archive of your wonderful pieces on somedancersandmusicians.com
our warmest wishes
carletta, michael, robert
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007
Jason Nelson
x ray train (1.97MB)
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Thu, 19 Jul 2007
Regina Célia Pinto
karaoke.mov (1.97MB)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007
Himanshu Desai
london_mix_train_coming.wmv (2.92MB)
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Fri, 29 Jun 2007
Himanshu Desai
train_coming_mixdown.mp3 (2.92MB)
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Martha Deed
traincomingMD.mov (482KB)
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Fri, 15 Jun 2007
Doron Golan
ManoTrain.mov (3MB)
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Mon, 11 Jun 2007
The Smith Family
surreal.mov (1.12MB)
surreal2.mov (1.11MB)
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Tue, 22 May 2007
Edward Picot
traincoming.mov (32MB)
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Sat, 19 May 2007
Edward Picot
train_coming1_EP.mp3 (528KB)
train_coming2_EP.mp3 (517KB)
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