Help filming the story of jimi-hendrix's sound, back to life
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As part of the filming of a documentary starting in 2023, I am asking for your help in order to continue its implementation. This would allow me to produce images intended to make you dream, but mainly translate a very important story for the history of music itself, and reach different peoples that I must interview, in different corners of the United States.
Here is the synopsis of this true story, whose dynamic is reborn after more than 50 years, in order to transmit a message to new generations. Thank you
Synopsis SACD Deposit number : 000726217
West Coast, a sound experience
From Jimi Hendrix to Neil Young, via Frank Zappa, Deniz Tek, the story of the experiments and inventions of a sound magician opening the doors of sound research to musicians, whose echoes have never ceased to resonate and inspire.
Within a Hendrixian sphere, between present and past, we retrace a musical archeology approach rich in lessons and observations, speaking to the expert as well as the neophyte, in search of the mythical sound of the band of gypsies, from 1969 to 1970.
Behind the scenes, fantasized and hidden under the radar for more than 50 years, David Weyer delivers a moving transmission of what made the DNA of these variations of sounds so admired, so desired, from Woodstock to the Fillmore East, Berkeley, Island de Wight, the result of Hendrixian expression through electronic experiments and modified amplifiers accompanying the personal and constrained quests of the musician.
Our journey takes us around the world, from Montana to Hollywood, Hawaii, Lubjana in Slovenia, following the surprises of this ongoing dynamic and in relation to a past that is still very present.
Meeting my friends David Weyer, Deniz Tek, Julijan Eric, the Beckham brothers and others, the relationship with the physical dimension of sound is revealed, through playing on modified amps and other new experiments still secret and unimaginable today : An approach inherited from an era playing with constraints, the scarcity of options available to musicians, inspiring creativity, expression and style, going beyond the limits.
In this main part of the film, to be filmed between Billings Montana and Hollywood where it all happend, and going through the rocky mountains, David and Deniz will explain how this state of mind and experienced occurred at the time, illustrating it themselves and let us understand how all this energy giving birth to Rock’n roll was in relation to World War II.
Julijan Eric and the Beckham brothers will let us appreciate what it’s like to express yourself through gears as used by Jimi Hendrix, for the first time ever since his passing 54 years ago.
This a project I’m very connected to, building modified amps myself, under the supervision of David.
In a current world offering all technical possibilities, having evolved towards new musical approaches and the forgetting of old ones, while trying to compete with the heritage of the past, what reflections and lessons emerge from this transmission from one generation to another, in direct contact with pure human expression.
A film in Cinemascope, which began in Slovenia in August 2023. An important phase must be filmed before June 2024. I need your help to bring this project to fruition!
Inspiration :
Why this film : Watch out for 2024! 1969 has something to say!
A very rich, rare subject, I would like this film to be able to speak to experts as well as to neophytes, to take them into this true, moving story, which began in the 60s, and which participated in the history of music .
Many musicians from the 60s - 70s - 80s benefited from David's talents on the West Coast of the USA, in Hollywood, and their sound was affected. Millions of musicians around the world, guitarists, would dream of knowing this story which has precious messages to convey to them.
The history of Rock was influenced by this "man who whispered in the ear of musicians", knowing how to understand them and materialize what they had in mind, he made possible their quests and the sound that you know from quantities of albums, groups. When you hear Hendrix play at Woodstock, one of the most iconic moments in music history, you hear David's work, allowing Hendrix to play this way, to sound this way.
It is a heritage transmitted generously, given to the world, and a film would be the best medium to explain all this, his approach, to demonstrate it sonically with very talented musicians who can finally sound like Hendrix thanks to David, which has never been able to be done until now. Their participation, this approach to musical archeology and testimonies during their travels will illustrate this act of transmission.
Beyond that, we will discover things and sounds still unimaginable in 2024, which could only exist through this unique state of mind and this era. We no longer approach things in the same way today, without having any idea, and that makes all the difference.
It’s a film about human expression.
Off course all donators will be cited in the Film's end credits.
Who am I ? What will be my role ?
I’m Adrien chauveau. I studied architecture and worked as an architect and naval architect, I later became a 3D artist and photographer.
It lead me to participate as an expert and to the realization of the film documentary “Egypte, les temples sauvés du Nil”( “Egypte, the temples saved from the Nile ), by Olivier Lemaître, for the TV channel Histoire, under the high patronage of the UNESCO.
And to the participation to the realization of the documentary "Philae, le sanctuaire englouti" ( Philae, the submerged sanctuary ), by Olivier Lemaître, pour the TV Channel ARTE.
I'm writting the film, collecting storys, authorized archives if possible, translating them into this film medium.
I'll also shoot the film myself, cut it, color grade it, craft it.
It isn't meant to be a hollywood production, yet with little we can achieve a lot, in a beautiful photographic and sound quality, enough to tell the story.
What will the donations be used for ?
Mainly, thanks to your help, the donations will finance a camera setup based arround a Blackmagic 6K FF, coming with a Ronin RS3 Pro stabilizer, various gears and batteries making it a working compact setup, to film with anamorphic lenses i have, in a beautiful cinemascope format and feel.
Also some mic to record interviews as well as concerts, live stage and studio performances, experiments, with unique tricks to help deliver the physical dimension and presence of sound to the audience, as it's a crucial point that mattered to the artists playing music in the 60's and later on.
It'll also serve to finance some airplane tickets to go to Montana from France, and to France from hollywood, for this main part of the film.
If this part can be filmed, with 8000 euros minimum, then i'll need a few other airplane tickets to potentialy reach Hawaï, Texas, maybe Nashville.
Also a bit of food and places to stay.
Organizer
Adrien Chauveau
Organizer
Paris, A8