0It’s done!
Happy and proud to show you the fruits of our labour!
Manfred the Monkey
Manfred the monkey
enlighten me
how come you are that happy
energetic and free
[…]
0Making the pun work
180's project: Manfred the Monkey - Animatic v04
The problem of keeping a pun secret, is that you don't get any feedback on it. And if the pun needs […]
0Visual Design. Colours.
Let's face it, Manfred is pretty retro. The sound, that is. Swing jazz jingle.
So naturally, the first colour set that comes to mind is...well yes, retro.
Something like this:[…]
1Art residence in Dutch radio show de Torenkamer
Dutch radio show Opium op Vier, is recorded in a beautiful castle in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. And as castles tend to, the building has a towerchamber.
Part of the […]
0Istanbul Recordings
January 28 we did an instrumental recording for Manfred the Monkey with the band Odylle in the Gevrec studios in Istanbul. For now, we just used the old home recordings for […]
2Animatic Manfred
With the storyboard done, time has come for The Animatic.
In an animatic, you time the storyboard images to the soundtrack in order to create a first draft of […]
0Storyboard done!
O look at us being happy and proud! And rightly so. The storyboard is done!
View the full storyboard here.
0Final lyrics
Think busy, busy weeks and a holiday. Manfred was lagging behind. And with a new holiday on the horizon, we decided to spend a Sunday afternoon on the roofterrace of […]
3First voice recording
A first recording of voice. Tried out different intonations. Most of the song is still a bit spoken-word, maybe we will work on that a bit more. I think the […]
0Basic Chord Scheme + recording
As the many '7 chords indicate, this is a jazzy tune in C. Nothing especially remarkable here. The interesting part of the song will be in the interaction between the […]
