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amart71 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:41 +0000

Jill Sobule (of the old-school "I Kissed a Girl" fame) has a point in this recent Huffington Post blog entry: what's missing when you download a song/album from iTunes or some other music service is all that cool information you would normally get if you bought the CD and read the booklet. Who played drums on Track 5? Whom would the artist like to thank? Little tidbits like that just aren't there in most cases (although I hasten to add that many artists have now made digital booklets available for download, but you usually have to buy the whole album in order to get those).

From an artists' standpoint, I can see why Sobule and others miss the booklet--that's where the credit lies. All the studio musicians and lesser-known band members' work, while still shining in the sound of the song itself, doesn't get any recognition in the fixed form of a text. And how many fans are going to be interested and thoughtful enough to do the research to find out who played what on which song?

Well, me, actually--although I'd rather someone save me the trouble. I'm one of those dorky people who sits down and reads the entire CD booklet when she buys a new CD because I want to know everything I can (Did you know that Dave Grohl plays drums on Pete Yorn's "For Us" from the disc Nightcrawler? Do you even know who Pete Yorn is? Because if you don't, you should). As a recent immigrant to iTunes, I hadn't even realized I was missing studio credits and liner notes because most of what I was downloading were "replacement CDs"--works by artists I'd bought years ago when albums were still on cassette. It's only lately when I've downloaded a full CD that was released a few years ago that I'm only just now getting around to purchasing (now that I can do so with a click of a mouse, considering I live in a town with one small record store), that I've started to realize what Sobule bemoans in her blog.

Maybe it's only music trivia dorks like me who miss the booklet, and maybe it's folks like me who will eventually help to keep the physical CD alive. I only hope that more artists catch on to the digital booklet phenomenon. Because some of us actually do care that Dave Matthews' solo album was recorded at Stone Gossard's studio in Seattle and to whom Radiohead dedicated In Rainbows.

House of Cards

juuulia — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:53:44 +0000

Radiohead is once again doing crazy awesome things to traditional music mediums. After being cut free from their label, they are doing the unthinkable for a successful band - making their music free and accessible to fans. The freedom they have applied to In Rainbows in general is fantastic: allowing fans to choose the album price, the Nude remix contest. With few exceptions, the record industry has not embraced or even really recognized the sea change brought on by digital media - not only music "piracy" but also the proliferation of fan remixes. Radiohead, Beck, NiN and a few others are catching on - and I'm glad to see it.

Now Radiohead made a music video for House of Cards using 3D imaging technology (no cameras or lighting) and provided the visualization data for users to play with and make their own music videos.

Here is the original video:

Check out the youtube group for fan-made videos.

Oh and here's the data plus a "making-of" video.

If you haven't read it already, you should also check out this interview in Wired of Thom Yorke by David Byrne (Talking Heads interview Radiohead - hee!). I also found Byrne's accompanying opinion piece on the future of the recording industry really interesting.

122. RADIOHEAD AT VICTORIA PARK

martinworster — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:55:03 +0000

Let's face it, Radiohead could record their farts and loop them backwards with some reverb and the critics would still be creaming their skidmarked pants. They can do no wrong. They are officially 'My Favourite Band In The World' so I was particularly excited to see them in London.

The stage in Victoria Park was massive - it was more like a festival vibe and the capacity must have been 20-30,000 and this was the second night on the sell out UK leg of their world tour. They are also everyone else's Favourite Band In The World.

Thome was looking punky in tight red jeans and a Bowie circa Aladdin Sane hair do - which was apt as on stage Mr Yorke looked like a Amanin Sane. The sound was great and live they are very faithful to their recordings, helped by top notch production.

The tour was on the back of In Rainbows but then it ascended into a greatest hits which was obviously what the band wanted. I heard on the night before it was more of their recent albums. I'm seeing them next in August at the Hollywood Bowl.

House of Cars. Radiohead 2 pasos antes..

jairoh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:53:30 +0000

Simplemente Radiohead no se acostumbra a los medios tradicionales del mercado y edición de imágenes para sus videos.

Primero cambió las reglas del juego lanzando el disco In Rainbow primero en Internet y sin precio fijo. Ahora lanza House of Cards el primer video realizado integramente con tecnología de ploteo 3D.

No utiliza ninguna cámara!!

House of Cards es el octavo tema del disco In Rainbow, disco que se caracterizó por hacer caso omiso a las leyes y normas establecidas por las grandes discográficas, haciéndole un by pass que llevaría la música directamente desde el artista al usuario.

Esta vez el salto de Radiohead da un paso más hacia la innovación, entregándonos un video que no utiliza cámaras, todo digital.

El resultado de mezclar nuevas tecnologías digitales de animación, innovación y música cargada de atmósfera y sentimiento es sorprendente.

Lo mejor de todo es que el resultado de la tecnología combinada que utilizaron en la producción de este video se encuentra bajo una licencia de Creative Commons en la página de Google Code. Con esto, cualquier persona puede modificar y mejorar el video, pudiendo publicar los resultados de su trabajo.

Lo más sorprendente para mí es que Radiohead, con su futurista visión sugiere una forma de relación social distinta y muy coherente con los patrones que rigen la Web 2.0.

Te invitamos a interactuar con el video y a verlo en youtube. Sugerimos verlo en alta calidad si te da el ancho de banda (Sólo desde su origen):

PD: El Making Off también está increíble:

Mercury Music Prize 2008 - The Shortlist

Joseph — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:09:08 +0000

It's that time of the year again! Below are the 12 nominees for 2008's Mercury Music Prize. And the latest odds as of the 22nd of July.

* Adele - 19 8/1
* British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 8/1
* Burial - Untrue 6/1
* Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 6/1
* Estelle - Shine 8/1
* Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim 8/1
* Neon Neon - Stainless Style 10/1
* Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea 10/1
* Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns 10/1
* Radiohead - In Rainbows 5/1
* Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 6/1
* The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement 5/1

For the most part the choices are quite predictable. And the odds don't really seem to favour any obvious favourite, which is wise as the judging panel rarely picks any 'favourite'.

Radiohead are always a dead cert to be nominated whenever they can be. The list has the typical rock/'indie' slant to it with the usual, slightly patronising, 'Token Jazz' (Portico Quartet), 'Token Folk' (Rachel Unthank) and the 'Token Black' (Estelle) choices.

The only really suprising absences are, in my opinion, Portishead, for returning with a fresh and imaginiative return that is easily up there with their previous peak. And Coldplay, for being generally popular and not as shit as they used to be.

The smart money would be on Radiohead, the general consensus even by casual Radiohead fans, is that it's the strongest album they've done since the masterpeice that is Ok Computer. But as is common with the Mercury Music Prize, a complete outsider and relative unknown will probably win. So perhaps a speculative fiver on Laura Marling or Burial might be wise?

Overall, it's a strong list. I shall be buying the few albums on the list that I haven't heard or have been meaning to get around to buying, just so I can be justifably outraged when the judges commit another Klaxonesque blunder like last year.

When I've listened to all the albums and when I've got more time I'll do a more indepth analysis of the nominees with lots of samples and downloads too.

Radiohead e Last Shadow Puppets indicados ao Mercury Prize

Bruno Boghossian — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:17:19 +0000

Os veteranos do Radiohead e o disco de estréia do Last Shadow Puppets estão entre os 12 indicados ao Mercury Prize - um dos prêmios mais importantes da música britânica. Todos os anos, o evento escolhe o melhor álbum lançado no Reino Unido no último ano. Entre outros nomes da lista estão a sensação soul Adele, a banda indie British Sea Power e o vocalista do Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant.

Esta é a quarta indicação da banda liderada por Thom Yorke, que nunca venceu o prêmio. Em 1997, o Radiohead foi finalista com o cultuado "OK Computer", mas perdeu para o disco de drum and bass "New Forms", de Roni Size e Reprazent.

Para Alex Turner, vocalista do Arctic Monkeys e do Last Shadow Puppets, essa é a terceira indicação seguida ao Mercury. Em 2006, o cantor e guitarrista venceu com "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not", primeiro disco dos Monkeys.

No ano passado, o disco premiado foi "Myths of The Near Future", do Klaxons. O vencedor da edição deste ano será anunciado no dia 9 de setembro, em Londres.

Mercury Prize 2008
Adele - "19"
British Sea Power - "Do You Like Rock Music?"
Burial - "Untrue"
Elbow - "The Seldom Seen Kid"
Estelle - "Shine"
The Last Shadow Puppets - "The Age Of The Understatement"
Laura Marling - "Alas I Cannot Swim"
Neon Neon - "Stainless Style"
Portico Quartet - "Knee-Deep In The North Sea"
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – "Raising Sand"
Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset – "The Bairns"

_house of cards

lamadrigueradesign — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:22:57 +0000

De nuevo los británicos Radiohead están a la cabeza de la revolución creativa musical. El nuevo vídeo de su último y transgresor In Rainbows (cuya distribución fue, como ya sabéis, vía Internet y a cambio de "la voluntad"), House of Cards está rodado con un láser que genera 0's y 1's y se convierte en imagen a través de un software, creando esta especial estética.

Impresionante.
¿Qué será lo siguiente? ¿Música que no es música?

Cool Radiohead Video

jdodson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:19:49 +0000

Check out this really cool Radiohead video from one of the many great songs off In Rainbows, "House of Cards."

HT: SM

House of Cards by Radiohead

s.m.h. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:18:59 +0000

Speaking of Radiohead: this video for "House of Cards," from thier new album, IN RAINBOWS, is amazing. No cameras or lights were used to create the images. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. Directed by James Frost, the video was created entirely with visualizations of that data. From their online album release with its "you decide" pricing structure and now this video, Radiohead are the undisputed visionaries of the music world.

Interactive House of Cards

allantverslendroit — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:16:24 +0000

House of Cards, le nouveau single issu de l'album In Rainbows de Radiohead, vient de sortir. Et comme à chaque fois, la vidéo est un parti pris visuel et technologique radical. Cette fois-ci, le groupe a décidé d'utiliser seulement l'informatique pour mettre en images la chanson. Pas de caméra, pas de lumières, pas de tournage. Juste du code, de la prod 3D et du laser. Le tout dirigé par James Frost de Zoo Films. Un peu plus d'info et surtout, le clip en 3D avec lequel on peut faire mumuse, c'est chez Google.

No camera but surprises !

mralexpierre — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:36:36 +0000

Pas question de faire dans le classique, on le sait bien, quand Radiohead fait parler de lui. Avec le nouveau clip de House of card, tiré de leur 7ème album In Rainbows, on dépasse une nouvelle fois le cadre de l'expérimental.

Pas de caméra. Juste une sorte de scanner qui interprète la réalité en image de synthèse. Pour un résultat étonnant, à défaut d'être détonant.

A voir ci-dessous, le making-of du clip !

Enfin, cliquez ici pour accéder au plug-in iGoogle pour jouer remixer visuellement le clip !

Radiohead y un video open source

hielasangre — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:56:03 +0000

El innovador grupo inglés que sorprendió con su iniciativa "pay what you want" lanzando su disco In Rainbows en el 2007 en la web (se podía descargar la versión digital del mismo pagando lo que quisieras), nos entrega ahora el video del tema House of Cards publicado bajo licencia Creative Commons.

Además de poder acceder al video gratuitamente, Radiohead publicó el código en Google para que quien quiera pueda descargarlo y manipularlo a su antojo.

En la página de Google se puede ver cómo se realizó el video e incluso interactuar con él.

Al parecer los muchachos de Radiohead (según sus declaraciones) están disfrutando mucho de su libertad creativa y ya no les gusta depender de los caprichos de las discográficas.

Fuente:
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Aproximativ peste Prezent

anaAyana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:04:48 +0000

Dacă ar fi să mă trezesc sub semnul întrebării, ca un punct mic peste ani, m-aş dezveli de o mantie transparentă şi grea, cea a prezentului. Aşa-mi trecea prin minte ieri când mergeam pe strada Luminii. Plăcuţa din colţ era diferită şi scria verde pe gri: Acolo-unde-începe-lumina. Exact aşa, cu liniuţe. M-am mirat pentru că nu o mai văzusem niciodată până-n acel moment însă mi-am continuat plimbarea până-n faţa vitrinei cu bijuterii. Nu ştiu de ce m-am oprit acolo. Era plutitoare. Şiragurile de mărgele se compuneau în aer printr-o rotire înceată iar cerceii levitau pe ritmurile unei melodii cu clinchete.

Pentru o secundă mi-am dat seama că mă aflam pe aceeaşi stradă din centru. Am recunoscut-o după vârful unei conducte de care mă împiedicam seara, când mergeam spre casă. Ciudat... cum de nu au înlocuit-o?

Privind în oglinda vitrinei, vedeam în spatele meu cum oamenii circulau cu viteză. Toţi purtau ochelari UV şi cămăşi cu senzori. Se salutau prin simpla apăsare a unui buton de la încheietura mâinii şi trimiteau diferite texte prin bluetooth. Cred că le aveau pregătite de acasă, aranjate pe categorii, pentru că schimbul de informaţii se producea instant. Reacţiile lor sintetice m-au trezit din amorţeală şi-n ciuda aglomeraţiei, vedeam cum tăcerea era pasată de la un colţ la altul, ca o bilă lovită de tac.

- Hey, girl! îmi zise o bătrânică, destul de cochetă, îmbrăcată în gri metalizat. Can you tell, me, please, where is the closest shop for fake nails?

- Huh? I'm sorry... I'm just a tourist. You can ask that woman (i-am arătat o trecătoare la fel de argintie) she has plenty answers in her bag! Şi am plecat.

Oare când s-a înserat?

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gogonutz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:47:51 +0000

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I don't want to be your friend, I just want to be your lover...

Ant — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:49:13 +0000

After self-releasing their new album, In Rainbows, Radiohead continues to defy the mundane musings of the now defunct music business model: by releasing a music video (mind you, not on MTV) with not one single shot used by a conventional camera. How you ask?

""House Of Cards", directed by James Frost of Zoo Films, was created utilizing two technologies: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the female lead and several partygoers. The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture large environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots. Geometric processed their own data while 510 Systems processed the Velodyne Lidar data. The data was then manipulated by Union Editorial and the Syndicate to create the final result."

How long can Radiohead keep up with this pace of ingenuity? I tend to agree with Thom Yorke's comments on their new videoless video.

"I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it. I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points--and how strangely emotional it ended up being."

Radiohead no Brasil (e no google)

Raulz!to — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:12:09 +0000

Passei só para dizer que eu não acredito no Lúcio Ribeiro quando ele diz que o Radiohead desembarca no Brasil em 2009. E digo isso porque eu ouço essa história desde que escutei o The Bends pela primeira vez. E o cara vai mais longe, sugere até que os caras vêm pra tocar em algum festival, provavelmente a céu aberto, num parque ou coisa parecida. Claro que isso é uma péssima notícia para os paulistas, já que não pra imaginar um festival de rock indie em pleno Ibirapuera hoje em dia. De qualquer forma, mantenhamos a fé e guardemos a grana.

Abaixo, o tão falado novo clipe dos caras, que usa 3D plotting em vez de truques de câmera e luz. O resultado é muito legal e no Google Code tem bastante informação sobre ele. Já a música House of Cards não tem nada demais, mas entra na cabeça.

Podem falar de R.E.M., Pixies, The Smiths e Sonic Youth, mas eu ouço essa música e eu lembro mesmo é do Bono Vox...

In Rainbows.

munguis — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:50:49 +0000

Me atrevo a decir que Radiohead ha formado parte de la vida de todos los bloggers que actualmente escribimos por aquí, ya sea por alguna clásica canción ("Creep", "High & Dry", "Karma Police", etc) o por que somos fans de hueso colorado y daríamos todo por que algún día visitaran territorio mexicano para dar un toquín que nos mojaría las bragas; reconocemos que el legado de Radiohead es infinito e intangible, tanto a nivel musical, intelectual, sentimental y mercadológico.

Su material más reciente, "In Rainbows" (del 2007), llegó con la novedad de ser el primero en ser distribuido por Internet bajo el consentiemiento de la banda, donde el fan fijaría el precio que deseara por descargarlo. Meses después lanzarían el material físico, lleno de esas pequeñas cosas con GRAN calidad para incitar al fan a adquirirlo.

Por parte del aspecto musical (lo que en realidad importa), entregaron otro GRAN disco, repleto de sólidas canciones, maduro y, lo mejor de todo, proyectando una sensación de que la banda aún tiene mucho para dar.

Yo me dediqué a hacer una reseña mas o menos completa acerca de este disco (algo que suelo mensualmente en mi blog) y les paso el enlace por si quieren darle una checada. Larga vida a Radiohead.

Enlace: Reseña del Mes: "In Rainbows" (Radiohead) (2007).

Radiohead - House Of Cards

Cadu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:19:22 +0000

A banda do inglês Thom Yorke ao longo destes 20 anos de carreira tem inovado de maneira magistral em suas músicas, clipes e forma de divulgação de seus singles. Desde o lançamento de "Creep" em 1992 o Radiohead conquistou o público do gênero e assim perpetuou ao longo da ultima década. Porém, nos anos de 2000 e 2001 com “Kid A” e “Amnesiac” respectivamente, os fãs sentiram uma mudança brusca na sonoridade marcando uma divisão entre fãs e criticos em suas opiniões. Isso ocorreu porque a partir de 2001 o Radiohead adotou o experimento de música eletrônica e jazz em suas composições trazendo toda uma nova forma de ouvir e enxergar a banda. O disco que trás claras mudanças na sonoridade foi lançado em 2003 e leva o nome de "Hail Of The thief", sexto álbum de estúdio da banda que foi bombardeado por essas experiências. Mas não pararam por ai, após um período sem gravar, o Radiohead mandou a gravadora EMI as favas e lançou seu sétimo albúm "In Rainbows" de 2007. Este álbum foi disponibilizado para download e indo além das espectativas, a banda deixou a critério dos fãs o quanto eles deveriam pagar por cada faixa.

Em 2008 não poderia ser diferente. "House Of Cards" faixa do disco "In Rainbows" ganhou um videoclipe, até ai nenhuma novidade, não é? Errado, este clipe é o resultado da parceria entre Radiohead/Google. Desta vez a proposta foi gravar o videoclipe sem o uso de filmadoras (?) Isso mesmo, o Radiohead inovou de novo usando lasers e scanners que transformavam o cruzamento de dados em imagens. Já no que diz respeito a Google, a companhia tem oferecido aos usuários um aplicativo interativo, no qual existe a possibilidade de manipulação e aproximação das imagens.

Radiohead - House Of Cards

Site interativo de "House Of Cards"

Radiohead, Italian Mountain Jazz & Tagaq-Patton

postymcposterton — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:00:38 +0000

Three unrelated music things that turned my crank (the good way) this week...

Radiohead's new, technologically-bitchin'* video for "House of Cards":

*- that's the technical term. The video was created without the use of a camera.. at all.

Update 7/19/08: The Radiohead video (above) is now downloadable for free from Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog HERE.

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Check out where jazz trio Dave Douglas, Donny McCaslin, and Luis Bonilla got to play (Rifugio Antermoia, Trentino, Italy - July 10, 2008 - photo by Max Bacchin):

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And now for a fun, experimental collaboration between art-noise rocker Mike Patton and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.

The song is called "Fire-Ikuma," and it's from Tagaq's upcoming album, Auk~Blood. There was an external link to an mp3 sample of the songs... alas, it's been removed. :( Anyway, it's a good song... especially if you like experimental, world music with a throat music (or Mike Patton) slant.

Tagaq's Official Page
Tagaq's MySpace Page

~Dan - np: Radiohead - In Rainbows

3D Concept for Radiohead In Rainbows Album Movie

cloope — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:19:33 +0000

Working with director Matthew Taylor on a 'Akira' style art piece for the new Radiohead Album: In Rainbows. The album is the soundtrack and of course it's a silent film. The trick is to make believable, yet powerful 3D and surreal imagery for an actress and imposed characters to live in. The first scene is a beautiful girl (who is really similar to a robotic being) who is being controlled by an alien force who is looking down to her from a 'control room'. Here are some concepts we designed. I'll put up more shots when i get back into the studio.

[caption id="attachment_83" align="alignnone" width="496" caption="Radiohead In Rainbows music video concepts"][/caption]

IN RAINBOWS
15 Step
INT. BLUMES SHOP
An old control panel flickers to life showing vital signs as a psudo-organic amorphous figure. The lights flicker on and off as morecontrol panels come to life. Camera moves the control panel to reveal a large window overlooking a room full of mounds of discarded mechanical body parts. In the middle of this large room with debris, lights come on to reveal a center room. The visor on this room folds back to reveal a mechanical woman. She is facing down and black wires run out of her arms and legs. The cables run into the surrounding walls. Inside the mechanical cocoon there is an infinite white space that contrast with the dirty old decay on the exterior of the birthing
chamber. As if conserved by the chamber for decades there is a life that is thrust into the mechanical woman. As the lights flicker in the control room, the mechanical woman comes to life, with jerky motions. She raises her head up to examine her surroundings and then from the control room is prompted to stand. The control room reveals a series of video monitors that reveal different facets of this mechanical person. She takes steps forward testing her range of the her wires that bind her to the room. The lights and controls become more fierce in the room as her motions mimic the kinetic connection. As the reflection between the control room and the mechanical woman becomes more violent, her wires snag on her stiletto boot and causes her to malfunction. Suddenly the control panel blinks a command to her and she resist against it. As she becomes self aware she begins to struggle against the control room. Her violent reaction to the control room causes the controls to burn out. The monitors go dead and black smoke starts to poor out of the panel as she begins to tear at the wires, riding them from her body. As she tears them out she violently convulses and staggers out of the same cocoon toward the edge of the room and free for the first time, topples over the edge.

[caption id="attachment_95" align="alignnone" width="497" caption="This is an early concept of the control chair"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_96" align="alignnone" width="497" caption="Obviously it went through some variations."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_97" align="alignnone" width="497" caption="We thought it would be cool to have it in ruins."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_99" align="alignnone" width="497" caption="Close up of the red version."][/caption]

The making of Radiohead's "House of Cards" video

Your Daily Chum — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:14 +0000

I posted the video to House of Cards yesterday. Check out the creators explain how they used technology to shoot a video with no cameras or lights.

No Surprises, huh?

romycom — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:58:37 +0000

After all the commotion caused by “In Rainbows” last October, it would be difficult to imagine Radiohead clinging to any music industry traditions. But to think their album could churn out any more oddities came as something of a shock.

Radiohead stepped up to the challenge, though, and this week, released their “House of Cards” video, whose images were produced, not with lights or cameras, but wholly with “3D plotting technologies”.

The video was crafted using visualizations of data describing the “shapes and relative distances of objects,” namely, Thom’s head. If that doesn’t quite cut it for an explanation, though, find out what really went into the project by watching it in the makings:

If the video really caught your interest, you can make your own and upload it to the Youtube group. Or read more about Radiohead’s “House of Cards” video at Stereogum.