USA Projects

Holy smokes!
You guys are awesome. Fully funded with two weeks to spare! We can't tell you how much we appreciate this incredible outpouring of support, and promise you we will do everything to hold up our end of the bargain, and make this thing ROCK! We'll start sending out reward prints and CDs in about a week.
All the best,
Mike and Martin
Cannonball Press

Howdy folks, and thanks so much to everyone who's contributed to our animation thusfar. We're in the homestretch of our fundraising efforts thanks to all of you, but could use a little help finishing this off.

So if you're willing to help us convince a few more folks to contribute, we'd really appreciate it. This thing is GONNA ROCK!!

In the meantime, we wanted to share a little blast from the past: an animation experiment that Mike and Eric did years ago. Originally, the piece was made to accompany an elctro-acoustic piece of music by Ted Coffey, though this soundtrack is a different version we made for kicks. The images here are just drawings (not woodcuts), and our plan is to make this new animation quite a bit more polished, with a wider variety of movements, but it illustrates at least some semblance of our vibe.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAK8CgtE4Po

Here's what Ted had to say about it recently:
"A few years ago Mike and Eric made an animation for a piece I composed for electronics + sax + Australian cabaret singer named Meow Meow. Wow: that animation was so good I wrote another piece for it last year for electronics + sax. The new piece is called Tetralemma, and it's coming out on Everglade Records in September. Here's what the liner notes say: 'The music is realized simultaneously with a video by Mike Houston (drawings) and Eric Knisley (animation). This video brings a gigantic presence -- fun, bleak, deeply weird, and cosmic all at once -- and the music has to work hard just to stay in the ring. It opens the piece way, way up.'"

So thanks again for your support, and please help us finish off this fund-raising effort with a BANG.

All the best,
Mike and Martin
Cannonball Press