Cut Copy have released the video for We Are Explorers, which is lifted from the band’s new album, ‘Free Your Mind‘. They enlisted avant-garde creators Masa Kawamura, Aramique & Qanta Shimizu who have been lauded globally as innovators.
The video features 3D-printed characters exploring the streets of Los Angeles. Every frame has been created with stop-motion photography. Kawamura & Aramique explain: “We wanted it to be tactile, to feel like a real adventure and felt we could accomplish this by creating a tangible character that we would shoot outside on location in every place.” Watch the video for We Are Explorers via YouTube below.
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BitTorrent is providing access to the 3-D files so fans the opportunity to live their own We Are Explorers adventure story. They can download the bundle, and unlock the film, a frame-by-frame guide to stop-motion shooting, and copies of the 3-D print files for each character in the film. As Kawamura & Aramique elaborate, “Our goal with BitTorrent is to hand everything over to the public…our storyboards, stop-motion technical plans, 3-D files for every figurine, and see what they do with it. Even if people just print the 8 figurines that make up the running sequence there’s so much they can do and so many places the story can go.”
Cut Copy will make their way back to North America for some tour dates w/ Jessy Lanza this spring!
Tour dates:
3/19: Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
3/20: Washington, DC @ Echostage
3/21: New York, NY @ Terminal 5
3/22: New York, NY @ Terminal 5
3/24: Montreal, QC @ Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre
3/25: Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
3/26: Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
3/31: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
4/1: Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
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