Couple 3

On Tour with The Bad Plus

Couple 3 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:06:48 +0000

This spring and summer, Noah Hutton will be touring with The Bad Plus to three U.S. locations and seven stops in Europe, designing lights and controlling original video projections that play behind the band for their interpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The show premiered last spring at Duke University and will finish the summer of 2012 with an outdoor performance at Lincoln Center in New York City. The video projections feature a mix of abstract/experimental footage and Mark Morris Company dancer Julie Worden performing the original Rite choreography, filmed by Hutton, all synced live with a lighting scheme to The Bad Plus’ music. Here is a list of upcoming shows this spring and some images from the Duke premiere:

March 10: Broadway Center, Tacoma, WA
March 30: Bailey Hall, Ithaca, NY [article] [show review]
May 5: De Camera of Houston, Houston, TX
May 25: Maldela Hall, Belfast, IRL
May 26: National Concert Hall, Dublin, IRL
May 27: Hakswell Theatre, Sligo, IRL
May 29: Riverbank Theatre, Kildare, IRL
May 30: Belltable, Limerick, IRL
May 31: Triskel Arts Center, Cork IRL
June 2: Natjazz, Bergen, NOR
August 2: Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival, New York, NY [NYT preview]

“King for Two Days” to Premiere at the 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Couple 3 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:22:15 +0000

Our concert documentary King for Two Days will premiere at the 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this February in Missoula, Montana. The film chronicles a two-night concert at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, that celebrated the music of drummer Dave King (“Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-‘60s jazz and indie rock,” – The New York Times) and five of the bands he plays in (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Buffalo Collision, Golden Valley is Now, Dave King Trucking Company).

The film cuts between concert footage, rehearsals, interviews with the musicians, and plenty of lightheartedness along the way (see trailer). Following the festival, the film will be available for purchase on iTunes and on DVD. All the latest information on availability will be posted on the film’s website.

Here’s the trailer:

Purdue Students Respond to “More to Live For”

Couple 3 — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:34:33 +0000

Noah Hutton at Purdue (Photo: Steven Yang for The Exponent)

Purdue University chose our film “More to Live For” to be the centerpiece of its annual Cancer, Culture & Community colloqium. Director Noah Hutton and subject of the film Seun Adebiyi traveled to the campus this week to take part in the event, which included a gallery show presenting visual art and soundscapes inspired by the film, speeches by Hutton and Adebiyi, a screening of More to Live For, and a documentary filmmaking workshop for Purdue students led by Hutton.

But most importantly, the drive to register more potential bone marrow donors to the international registry, held in conjunction with the More to Live For events on the Purdue campus, signed up a final tally of 1058 students– a single-day record for the More to Live For drives thus far and a thrill for those involved. Check out the gallery below for images from the events.

Scientific American Psychology Film Series Trailer

Couple 3 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:29:48 +0000

Couple 3 was commissioned by Scientific American to produce 30 short educational films in 2011. Here’s the new trailer for the series:

Bluebrain: Year Two

Couple 3 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:27:29 +0000

Henry Markram is attempting to reverse engineer an entire brain, one neuron at a time, on IBM supercomputers. This piece is the Year Two preview to director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the development of The Blue Brain Project (bluebrain.epfl.ch), a landmark endeavor in modern neuroscience, culminating in a documentary feature in 2020.

Watch Bluebrain: Year One here: vimeo.com/8977365

Bluebrain: Year Two in the Pipeline

Couple 3 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:57:18 +0000

Our ten year film project that will track the development of the Blue Brain Project in Lausanne, Switzerland, will get its second year update later this summer. Director Noah Hutton has just completed a week of shooting at the project headquarters on the campus of EPFL (pictured below). After it premieres at Google’s Sci Foo un-conference in August, we’ll post the edited Year Two short here.

An image from Bluebrain: Year Two. The campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Scientific American Films in Production

Couple 3 — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:59:45 +0000

The Couple 3 team is deep into production on 30 short films on various psychology/neuroscience topics we were commissioned to make by Scientific American. Today we filmed 30 brief opening title sequences for each film at a studio in Brooklyn with dancers Stephanie Fungsang and Jeremy Finch.

On set in Brooklyn for Scientific American films. L to R: Natasha Newman (producer), dancers Stephanie Fungsang and Jeremy Finch, and Noah Hutton (director).

Multimedia Design for The Bad Plus + The Rite of Spring

Couple 3 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:16:08 +0000

Prolific jazz trio The Bad Plus were co-commissioned by Duke Performances and Lincoln Center to interpret and perform Stravinsky’s infamous The Rite of Spring. Noah Hutton, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based artist Cristina Guadalupe, developed the lighting design and the visuals that were projected behind The Bad Plus as they premiered their Rite on March 26th at Duke’s Reynolds Theatre. Here are some images from the premiere of The Bad Plus’ “On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’”.

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Architect Christina Guadalupe and filmmaker Noah Hutton’s beautiful multimedia presentation added intriguing visuals to an out of this world auditory experience.”

- Shannon Webb-Campbell, The Coast

Okayplayer 10.0 blog review of the show.
The Thread reviews the March 26th premiere.
The Bad Plus discuss “On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’” on NPR.
Performed May 20+21, The Loring Theater, Minneapolis MN. [article]; July 8, Halifax Jazz Festival

The Indecent – Her Screwed Up Head

Couple 3 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:57:52 +0000

Noah Hutton directed this new music video for NYC band The Indecent, composed of triplets Maddy, Bo, and Emily Brout, and Nicholas Burrows on drums. They signed a deal this month with Warner Brothers and will be in L.A. this spring to record their first studio album. An EPK and more music videos to come.

More to Live For – Upcoming Festival Screenings

Couple 3 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:34:29 +0000

More to Live For is hitting the road.

The documentary feature that Noah Hutton directed, edited, and scored for the global cancer foundation Love Hope Strength this past year is an official selection of the 2011 Sedona Film Festival, the 2011 Cleveland International Film Festival, the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival, and as a special screening event at the 2011 Aspen Songwriters Festival.

The film’s distributors are will be holding bone marrow registry drives in theater lobbies following screenings (a simple swab of the cheek to get on the list; if matched, donating is now as simple as giving blood), and filmgoers will have the opportunity to join the list and potentially save a life.

Article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the film and the cause.
Film page at the Cleveland International Film Festival.
Trailer on YouTube.