The very good folks in the steampunk band Abney Park have released a new music video . . . this one for the song “My Life” from their Æther Shanties album. You may notice a very strong visual look and feel resemblance to their previous video for another song which is very different aesthetically, the…
Music
Influence, Music
Pray for You
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a pretty gospel song . . . well, sort of. He hits the feel of a country gospel song but with a delightful twist. – Brian
Music, Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers
Gagatown
by Brian David Phillips •
It was “Lady Gaga Day” in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and the whole city went all out. Little children dressed in post-apocalyptic space disco outfits. Women wore meat bikinis. Acrobats tumbled in front of a giant Gaga face. Lady Gaga herself was there, performing a concert, watching children do a ceremonial Gaga dance, and…
Music
The Voice is the Anti-Idol as Far as Music Competition Shows Go
by Brian David Phillips •
Lyndsey Parker posts an excellent discussion of just why The Voice is so engaging and why it really is in many aspects an Anti-American-Idol program, in a good way. Her reasons range from the obvious focus on voice instead of looks – despite some critics calling the blind auditions a gimmick – to less obvious…
Music
Slap My Elbow
by Brian David Phillips •
Here it is! Hip Hop megastar S.mouse performing his award winning megahit SLAP MY ELBOW! The song is from the television series Angry Boys in which Chris Lilley plays all of the major characters. It’s absolutely brilliant stuff and the character of S.mouse with his incredibly bad taste is a lot of fun to watch.…
Hypnosis Videos, Music, Special Features
Alisa Amor Sings Milton Erickson
by Brian David Phillips •
An an experimental musical trancework, singer Alisa Amor has taken a classic hypnosis script by Milton Erickson and set it to music to create a unique twisting experience. You can see more of Alisa’s videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/alisaamor and explore her work at http://www.alisaamor.com and http://www.miraclesong.org. I met Alisa through one of my online courses which…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye Phillips performs Mermaid’s Lament – the piano version
by Brian David Phillips •
My daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, performs the solo piano version of her original composition MERMAID’S LAMENT . . . you may remember her earlier video of Kaye and two of her friends performing a trio version of the same song, Kaye’s original composition for flute, piano, and cello on 9 June 2011 at Tamkang Senior…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye Phillips performs Mermaid’s Lament
by Brian David Phillips •
My daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, and two of her friends perform MERMAID’S LAMENT, Kaye’s original composition for flute, piano, and cello on 9 June 2011 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where Kaye is a student in the music specialty program, majoring in Composition and Piano. If you would like to watch the…
Music
SJ Tucker Playing Dungeons and Dragons
by Brian David Phillips •
Awesome and a half, the folks who make Dorkness Rising, have teamed up with everyone’s favorite skinny white chick, SJ Tucker to make the music video for Sooj’s rendigion of “Playing D&D“ and it is a wonderful romp down memory lane and an homage to a game I for one hold near and dear. My…
Music, Uncategorized
Airship Pirates . . . Abney Park getting a tabletop RPG based upon the steampunk band’s music and backstory
by Brian David Phillips •
I know . . . I’ve been posting a LOT on Steampunk music and culture of late, well, much more than on hypnosis and trance which really is what this blog normally focuses on . . . but when I explore things or find them of interest they often go here as this blog isn’t…
Music, Uncategorized
Steampunk Culture and Music
by Brian David Phillips •
MTV Shows This is a video from MTV on Steampunk with a glance at the music of the culture. Found it because I’ve been devouring Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) of late. Methinks we’ve found a wonderful musical subculture resonant with some – but not all – of Kaye’s own interests in tersm of musical complexity in…
Music, Uncategorized
End of Days by Abney Park . . . steampunk musique
by Brian David Phillips •
I quite enjoy bands that play with fantasy, science fiction, and magickal themes. Abney Park started out labeled as gothic and then through the years as folks came and went, they reinvented themselves as a steampunk band complete with airship narrative and band member alter-personae as airship pirates and they seem to have really hit…
automatisms and ideomotor effect, Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye Phillips improvising on Piano
by Brian David Phillips •
My daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips improvising at piano . . . she’s at home just letting her fingers move . . . fellow hypnotists may note that her improvisation is very much based upon a musical ideomotor movement of her fingers which take on a life of their own as she plays . . .…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye Phillips performing “Maiden Flight of the Blue White Dragon”
by Brian David Phillips •
Here we go . . . this one’s SPECIAL! Here is a video and some images of my daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, as she performs MAIDEN FLIGHT OF THE BLUE WHITE DRAGON, her original piano composition on 14 November 2010 at Wang LaoShr’s Annual Student Recital in Taipei, Taiwan. Kaye was invited to come as…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye’s Band Performing at HS Music Festival
by Brian David Phillips •
Here are some more video framegrabs of my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips and her as yet unnamed band performing at a music festival invitational for high school rock bands. The band, while rough around the edges, was names one of the top bands performing at the festival. Kaye plays drums for the band which is…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye’s Band performing at NCCU
by Brian David Phillips •
Some of you may not know that my daughter Kaye is now also in a band and plays drums . . . yes, drums. Oddly enough, not keyboards even though she is a double major in Piano and Composition but drums, an instrument she has no formal training in and one in which she had…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Memories of Camelot
by Brian David Phillips •
Well, I finally got some photos . . . well video framegrabs . . . of my daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, performing MEMORIES OF CAMELOT, her original piano composition on 4 June 2010 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where she is a student in the music specialty program, majoring in Composition and…
Music
Calling Occupants of Enterprise
by Brian David Phillips •
I was looking for videos of Klaatu‘s version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft to share with my daughter Kaye and came across this little gem which mashes The Carpenters better known version with Star Trek for First Contact goodness . . . I prefer the longer World Contact Day version by The Carpenters but…
Music
Rhythm Games are becoming authentic music games and more
by Brian David Phillips •
This is koolness, well it's koolness if it actually turns out to be all that it is claimed to be. Rhythm games are undergoing further evolution to the point that it's not unforeseeable to predict that eventually games like Rock Band and the rest may in fact become music education tools and eventually the game…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Memories of Camelot by Kaye Phillips
by Brian David Phillips •
In this video . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7k1yCm4CAM . . . my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips performs "MEMORIES OF CAMELOT" . . . her own original piano composition. This performance took place on 4 June 2010 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where Kaye is a student in the music specialty program, double majoring…
Family, Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance, Music
It is DONE! 春天吶喊 Spring Scream Hypnosis Show!
by Brian David Phillips •
It is done! Our hypnosis show at Spring Scream 春天吶喊 (http://www.springscream.com) was scheduled for 12:10am (yes, just after midnight) but when we got there the band scheduled before us was just setting up to perform . . . things were running much later than usual. So, I apologized to Kaye who was dead on her feet…
Music
Vocaloid in Concert
by Brian David Phillips •
My daughter Kaye is a fan of Vocaloid . . . an odd phenomenon in its own right. Vocaloid is a program developed by Yamaha that is a voice synthesizer with music editor in which folks create song files that typically are music – original or otherwise – with voice. The voice is based upon…
Family, Kaye Phillips Music, Music
Kaye Elizabeth Phillips plays Schubert
by Brian David Phillips •
On 5 Sept. 2009, we took in the recital for students of Kaye's piano teacher . . . here is Kaye Elizabeth Phillips performing a piece by Schubert (Impromptus op.90 d.899 n.4) . . . If you can't see the video embed in your stream, then go to my main blog at https://briandavidphillips.net/ or you…
Music
Four Chords . . . Thirty-Six Songs
by Brian David Phillips •
As many regular readers know, my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips (http://www.kayephillips.com) is a songwriter . . . well, I've heard her messing about with an idea and usually she's quite original . . . however, when you're using chords in your composition, there's only so far you can take it . . . sometimes folks…
