INDIE
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technology, filmmakers now have
the tools to tell the kinds of stories
they are interested in. Using celluloid
film stock — the most common way
to shoot a Hollywood movie — most
major productions can cost many
thousands of dollars to develop and
edit. Digital equipment, on the other
hand, is cheap and easy to use.
"I originally wanted to shoot in
16inm film, but a one or two hour
movie done that way would cost
about $6,000 just to edit," Wein
traub said. "With digital 1 can just
get a program on my computer for
about $ 100 and do it all at home."
Many smaller filmmakers are
coming to similar conclusions. Still,
despite the fact that it is now simpler
and cheaper to create movies, there
are still problems associated with in
dependent filmmaking.
"Digital production is incredibly
helpful when it comes to making a
movie, but it doesn't do anything for
distribution," Assistant Professor
Michael Aronson said. "That's were
the bottleneck is."
Aronson, who currently teaches
the Department of English's History
of the Motion Picture class, said
there would be a better chance for
digital filmmakers to have their
films distributed widely if theaters
began to move toward digital and
satellite technology. Then it would
no longer become necessary for the
theater to possess a physical copy of
the film to show it. Aronson said
this is a big maybe.
"There is no guarantee that distri
bution will become any better," he
said. "As the technology advances,
people might be able to make their
films easily accessible on the Inter
net. But that doesn't change the fact
that if people don't know about it, it
might as well not exist."
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reminiscent of a cat sneaking
across a floor before the entire
group's sound explodes. This is
perhaps the album's most narra
tive tune, evoking imagery of vio
lence and political strife before re
turning to lithe motif.
Now that the group has com
piled a large breadth of material,
"Even Odd Bird," freely appropri
ates work from the musicians' past.
Pelta's "March Waltz," from last
year's duet collaboration with
Tiller, is re-recorded and benefits
from the extra punch that bass and
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"Obleo's Travels" — from the same
recording — gets the similar treat
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Trillian Green.
Other tunes represent the
band's composition becoming
more unified and less centered
around Tiller and Pelta. "Semii
Aztlan" — credited to bassist Flo
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East while Kaplan's "Augra's Ma
chine," a reference to the 1982 film
Dark Crystal — is particularly en
ergetic, with the band going from
a slow melody that evokes images
of verdant country fields before
eventually quickening its pace. Fi
nally, the instruments reach an all
out psychedelic climax.
Taarka's first release, 2002's "Live
in the Studio" was a straightfor
ward no-frills album, recorded be
fore the band had even gained a
mastery of the material. This dif
fers markedly from the overall
sound of "Even Odd Bird," which
has a warm production quality
that is ironically closer to a Taarka
live performance.
Still, the band makes use of stu
dio techniques effectively. Pelta's
violin harmonizes with itself on
"Impeachment" while other in
strumentalists, such as an accor
dion and keyboard on "Fat
Chance," are occasionally added to
vamp out a tune.
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