Director

Alden Volney

Nicolas Godin explore new frontiers in The Border, directed by Alden Volney.In the awe-inspiring&nbsp;animated video, we see our protagonist leave his bedroom and explore a kaleidoscope of beautiful worlds, textures and colour, as he defies gravity and the universe arounds him shifts.It's a&nbsp;subtle move into more realistic CGI for Alden Volney, who creates a sublime and&nbsp;thought-provoking experience to accompany the Air founder's latest&nbsp;soundscape.

France

Kate Brady

Riff Raff Films

Natalie Arnett

Because Music

Alternative

Electronica

Nicolas Godin 'The Border' by Alden Volney

Timbuktu band&nbsp;Songhoy Blues&#39;s collaboration with Iggy Pop gets the coolest treatment by animator Alden Volney.A series of trademark Volney-esque animated loops captures the mood and spirit of Sahara - a combination of majestic African landscapes and wildlife, banal Western consumerism, iconic guitar-playing and the unmistakeably sinuous body of The Ig.It&#39;s beautiful stuff.&nbsp;So just lose yourself in this&nbsp;perfect accompaniment to the track.

Jamie-James Medina

Transgressive Records

Rock

Songhoy Blues ft. Iggy Pop 'Sahara' by Alden Volney

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a hen party to Blackpool (or another English seaside town) was given a 1940s animation makeover? No, neither have I. But The Sacred Egg have done it anyway, for Powell&#39;s Wormhole, and proved it&#39;s a marvellously way to celebrate a quaintly&nbsp;British night out.&nbsp;However, people of other lands may find this just too disturbing. Americans, in particular, you should&nbsp;look away now...[imgtoken data:1]

United Kingdom

The Sacred Egg

Sam Bould

Richard Fearon

XL Recordings

Harvey Ascott

Powell 'Wormhole' by The Sacred Egg

One Way Glass&nbsp;is the debut single for newly-formed &#39;supergroup&#39; Innerspace Orchestra, a trio comprising Tom Furse (The Horrors), Cathy Lucas (Fanfarlo), and Rose Dougall (Mark Ronson, the Pipettes). The ethereal yet rhythmic track has received some dependably mesmerising, colourful visuals by Alden Volney, with a diverse array of shifting shapes and animation styles that look like they were made in a bygone&nbsp;age.

Rob Anderson

Indie

Synth

Innerspace Orchestra 'One Way Glass' by Alden Volney

Innerspace Orchestra - One Way Glass (Official Video)

Psychedelic post punk meets industrial Sweden in the promo for FEWS&#39;s debut single&nbsp;The Zoo,&nbsp;directed and animated by Alden Volney, offering a rhythmic, gritty and hypnotic visual accompaniment via the backdrop of post-industrial Malmö. &nbsp;

Sweden

Play It Again Sam

FEWS 'The Zoo' by Alden Volney

FEWS - The Zoo (Official Video)

Top Cat takes a trip, in Alden Volney&#39;s blissfully strange&nbsp;animation for Liverpool band Hooton Tennis Club&#39;s P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E.It all starts so Hanna Barbara-style, but things go considerably more off-the-wall&nbsp;when Leopold The Fox and his nemesis Furious Jacques enter their local church in time to witness a cataclysmic event...

Matthew Fone

Indie, Alternative

Hooton Tennis Club 'P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E.' by Alden Volney

Hooton Tennis Club - P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E.

Alden Volney reimagines, extends, and generally messes with the whole Alien/Ripley legend in his video for Black Rivers&#39; Voyager 1 - the first&nbsp;release by&nbsp;Jez and Andy Williams from Doves.Or maybe not.&nbsp;The peril to the Sigourney Weaver-like heroine, as she aborts her space mission, and goes to take a very long nap,&nbsp;is certainly nothing to do with the late HR Giger&#39;s monster. Whatever the inspiration, this is excellent&nbsp;work from Alden &#39;night owl&#39; Volney. He spend every night for five weeks animating this video and it&#39;s a goodie.

Sarah Boardman

Joceline Gabriel

Laura Kelly

Ignition

Indie Rock

Black Rivers 'Voyager 1' by Alden Volney

Black Rivers - Voyager 1 (Official Video)

Alden Volney does a great job with this video for Childhood&#39;s Falls Away, promoting the artist in a creative and fun way thus spreading their music further. He uses a number of techniques:&nbsp;stop-motion,&nbsp;off-key colours, and loads of charm,&nbsp;whilst maintaining the classic band performance promo.

Geoff Morgan

Riff Raff

Mari Stracke

Nic Booth

Anna Mould

Emily Bilverstone

Stephanie Haughton

Marathon Artists

Childhood 'Falls Away' by Alden Volney

Childhood - "Falls Away" (Official Video)

Alden Volney&#39;s video for Villagers&#39; Occupy Your Mind is for Conor O&#39;Brien&#39;s timely protest against Russian anti-gay legislation - as the Winter Olympics in Sochi begins.&nbsp;&nbsp;The video&nbsp;is a simple and stark idea which incorporates Alden&#39;s distinctive lo-fi/retro animation style - projected on Conor&#39;s face.

Bart McDonagh

Domino

Shabana Mansuri

Villagers 'Occupy Your Mind' by Alden Volney

Villagers-'Occupy-Your-Mind'-by-Alden-Volney

Alden Volney adds&nbsp;judicious animations to some personal,&nbsp;vintage home video footage&nbsp;to create this vid for Nightmares On Wax&#39;s very groovy&nbsp;Be I Do.In a weird way, it&#39;s quite moving &ndash; like looking through&nbsp;someone&#39;s old family photo album&nbsp;- if anyone can remember those &ndash; enhanced with additional art...

Nightmares On Wax 'Be I Do' by Alden Volney

N.O.W / Be I Do

Villagers singer Conor O&#39;Brien shadows a middle-aged man as he goes about his lonely, humdrum life in Alden Volney&#39;s poignant promo for Nothing Arrived. With props to Anna Mould for her art direction, Volney portrays the man (played by Adam Cole) as the saddest soul alive as he gets out of bed, shaves, goes to work, has a tragic time at the office party then sets off for home again. All very hopeless. Then he wins the lottery...&nbsp;

Angharrad Merry

John Moule

The Villagers 'Nothing Arrived' by Alden Volney

Villagers - Nothing Arrived (Official Video)

"As The Waves was such a departure from the Villagers' previous records, we had steer away as far as we could from the feel of their other videos," says Alden. "It was a bit too obvious, visually speaking, to represent actual sea waves in the video, so I started toying with oscillator waveforms (square, sin, sawtooth etc...). I ran Conor's image through an oscillator-emulating plugin and programmed it to react to the beat of the song. I started running a lot of different visuals through that oscillator plugin, and also used the Rutt Etra Video Synthesizer for some parts.
"The hardest part, I suppose, was trying to visually match the violence of the end of the song. The song covers a large specter of different intensities so i had to be careful not to go over the top, in the beginning and keep cinematic ammunition for the "all hell breaks loose" part, in the end. The retro-futuristic aspect acts as some kind of ironic underlining of the themes of the song...Natural disasters and existential distress are matters to be approached ironically, in my opinion. I think it's too redundant to just get sad about the human meaninglessness.
"The video was made in about three weeks, which is very little time for a five minute video containing a lot of animated elements, but the rush of the deadline, and the fear that you won't be able to meet it, seems to turn on the 'survival mode' in the artistic brain..." 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Hoha8iET3us

Adam Farley

Villagers 'The Waves' by Alden Volney

Villagers-'The-Waves'-by-Alden-Volney

PLUGS 'Black Microdots' by Alden Volney

Wizard-Sleeve’s-Get-Down-Tonight-by-Thomas-Goldser

PLUGS-'Black-Microdots'-by-Alden-Volney

Promonews Podcast

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