Image via CrunchBase The Digital Age has literally exploded the amount of talent that is available to the emerging artist. With a little bit of electronic savvy, you can collaborate with musicians, filmmakers, composers, actors, and visual artists from all over the globe. But screening talent virtually can get complicated. For Libertaria: The Virtual Opera , an animated opera produced entirely online, I used Music Xray to find talented opera and pop singers.  What is Music Xray? Music Xray i s an online platform that is meant to connect artists to music companies and producers. Typically artists pay a small fee to get their work heard by a professional, although the music pro can waive the fee which leaves the artist only paying the Music Xray handling fee (about $4). The site itself has had some controversy for not properly vetting music producers and for taking advantage of musicians through music pros that aren't properly vetted. On the other hand many musicians ha...

For those who have been wondering about the hiatus here at the New Music Resource, wonder no more! The past six months I have been working on a sci-fi machinima musical Libertaria: The Virtual Opera . Created almost entirely in the machinima software platform Moviestorm and scored with a catchy combo of electronic music, film scores, and dramatic vocals, Libertaria has been an incredible collaborative project. Moviestorm has been an excellent and inexpensive way to create an entire epic sci-fi tale for a minimal amount of resources. Almost three years ago I started using Moviestorm for a variety of video projects, and then decided to make an entire feature length musical using only machinima. The project proved challenging, involved a couple of dozen singers, animators, and other artistic professionals volunteering their talent and resources to create an incredible feature. W atch a the lo-res version of  the song Pilar of the Underground from Libertaria: The Virtual Opera : ...

Independent filmmakers, visual artists, and composers are starting to use machinima more and more in serious artistic pursuits. Machinima, animation using video game engines, has matured considerably in the last few years to something for Fanboys of Quake and World of Warcraft to a viable way of making an affordable feature length animated film.There are several machinima software options available to the aspiring machinima filmmaker. As a musician that wanted to make an opera using machinima, I found that Moviestorm, a UK-based machinima platform, was easy to use and affordable. Below you can see a rough cut of Baby Machine from Libertaria: The Virtual Opera .   As you can see from the clip, I was able to create a quick sci-fi machinima scene without too much of a learning curve. Some Moviestorm animators have made great headway in making incredible original mods and new animations for the characters. One of the drawbacks of Moviestorm is that initially you are limited by th...

Dee Kaph Dee Kaph is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, poet and philosopher living in Kamloops, BC. 



Although his productions are generally “electronic”, he has recorded some 300 original songs under several different names ranging in style from progressive trance to dubstep, triphop, ambient, fast-fusion, drum & bass, atmospheric, classical/chamber, folk, industrial, pop, indie dance, house, breaks, and fusions all in between. 

After taking a hiatus for several years to focus on raising his children, Dee Kaph is again ready to share his unique vision of creative crossover. NMR : Share your musical journey. What made you decide to create music? DEE KAPH: Making music was never really a decision I made, not any more than a fish decides to swim. It’s something I have learned that I have to do or I really start to go nuts, it builds up and then manifests in unhealthy ways otherwise. I’m intensely creative in whatever medium I can get my hands on, ...