In the Kitchen with…your host chef Elijah B Torn cooking up some electronic madness

Just in time for the kickass holidays and kickass black friday shopping sales and and kicking off all of the kickass winter madness!

Its an Elijah B Torn original cooking video! Why is a musician making a cooking video you say? Get your taste buds tingling and all fired up for some turkey, tofurky, quorn turkey, stuffing, dressing or cranberry sauce. Check it out and you’ll see!

For those who might not have the time in the midst of all the holiday feasting, snoozing and drop till you shopping: I’m demonstrating this kickass new wireless MIDI controller called Hot Hands™ MIDI EXP by Source Audio that I’ve been using as part of my live performances this year of 2009. In the video you can watch some of the kickass things you can it can do and get a free cooking lesson! kickass! (spoiler alert- it makes dinosaurs appear!)

Also wanted to let you know that my EP “Bunker Fallout” has been mastered and is going to be available on iTunes very shortly…I will keep you posted! stay tuned here, join the newsletter Become a fan on facebook here! Follow Elijah B Torn on Twitter here! and stay posted!

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some sound design for the evertalented (re)Animator Matt Saunders…

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check out me using SourceAudio’s HotHands MIDI_EXP in this video of me playing my song “Dangerous” from my Vigilante album. This is from my show in Ithaca back in June that someone was kind enough to upload to tube.

MIDI_EXP is a wireless hand held midi controller. check it out: Hot Hands MIDI_EXP <= right there. more to come on this and how i’m (ab)using this soon…

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Through MassiveMusic I got the chance to create the Sound Design and opening music for the wonderfully talented Brooklyn artists Tom Kane. Make sure to check out his sick dance moves too…

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At some point in the Ithaca Times interview I mention the lovely and talented Mr. Rob Spence from the Eyeborg Project.

Rob is a photographer who lost an eye and is working with engineer Kosta Grammatis to replace the eye with a camera. It isn’t “wet-wired” but it’s really, really badass and he has been on pretty much every talk show and news program in the past six months.

I did a remix of the Canadian Rock band Chilliwack hit from 1982 for the Eyeborg Phase II video and you bet you can check it out in this post or on Eyeborgproject.com. Love the terminator red LED eye! How’s that for technology?

much digital love,

Eliajh Bet Thorne

here’s the video-

Eyeborg Phase II from eyeborg on Vimeo.

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so the fine peoples over at cdbaby tagged my “Sarge Shukar Rough” album for a featured playlist on the homepage. The playlist is called “The Final Frontier” and I believe it has some tie in to the great hype of the new Star Trek movie. Its pretty funny cause the description of my album starts off with “While most musicians claim they herald from Outer Space, Elijah B Torn is not an episode of Star Trek”! Pretty cool that technology can work in my favor that way! Plus its playlist 33 which is a pretty rad number.

Also- I had a freaking blast playing with Hans Blix last week and in Ithaca last weekend. The ‘BLix rules and we played three tunes together. David Ezra Brown and Dj Laiki killed it real nice and got the Ithacans dancing! I got to bring out my midi controlled dinosaur for the first time too! Really enjoyed rocking the MIDI_EXP! You can read my full interview in the Ithaca times on their arts blog Popcorn Youth right here. Pictures and hopefully video to follow soon!

Also- someone just pointed out to me that Don’t Cry its only Sarge was a song of the day on Yes Yes Yall… some time back, awesome! click here

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hey everyone!

weather is changing, birds is chirping, sloths sez hai, turtles is breeding and I got TWO SHOWS this weeeeeeeek. I’ll be rockin with the bass, the loop and a whole bunch of other beat blipping nonsense both in the city and upstate! Rumor has it I might have some dinosaur midi-controllers floating around too!

I got TWO SHOWS this weeeeeeeek. I’ll be rockin with the bass, the loop and a whole bunch of other beat blipping nonsense both in the city and upstate! Rumor has it I might have some dinosaur midi-controllers floating around too!

quick news- a Public Service Announcement commercial I did at MassiveMusic was picked for Shoot magazine’s Music TOP 10. Check it out here.

Check out my interview in the Ithaca Times here! Big thanks to Natasha Li Pickowicz for asking such fun questions!

here are the shows-
Thursday May 7th - for those Downstaters in the City, I will be playing at the Tealounge in Brooklyn with Hans Blix. I will be performing at 9pm. Then Hans Blix and I will play together for a while. THEN around 1030ishhhhh Hans Blix will wow your socks off with all new tunes and all live electronicawesomisty!

Saturday May 9th - for the Upstaters, I will be playing at The Lost Dog in Ithaca for an End-of_Semester all out extravaganza. Mind-trippin’, luscious downtempo rocking Ithaca resident David Ezra Brown will kick things off, I will go on round xxx o’clock with Ithaca’s own DJ Laika and VJ Philosophia of will bring the house throughout the night. Show starts at 10pm.

can’t wait to see you all soon and happy day for all the Moms!

Elijah Bee Thorne

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On Thursday April the Second in the Year Two-Thousand and Nine, it was writ and entered into the annals of history that I won a composer award in the 10th Annual First Boards Awards for my work with MassiveMusic!

The First Boards Awards “celebrates the international industry’s top emerging talent from a series of categories including director, editor, composer, designer, animator and agency producer”. The event is hosted by Boards Magazine which is the leading industry publication about the international business of commercial production. Its read monthly by over 13,000 agency producers, creatives, production and post-production company executives, artisans, reps and I have an interview and profile in the April issue! You can read or download that here. The other finalists are some awesomely badass peoples including Director Nima Nourizadeh (Flight of the Conchords, ADIDAS House Party commercial(which MassiveMusic also did the licensing for), Trish Sie (who directed the Ok Go music videos on the treadmills) and a ton of other amazing Editors, Animators, and Graphic Artists! I am flattered and honored to be included in this group! (you can check out all the winners here).

A huge thank you to Boards Magazine, all of the judges, MassiveMusic and to YOU for reading this!

(a very thankful)

Elijah B Torn

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