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Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors. No part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate a color used in the background.
Chroma Key is the name under which ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore records. Although primarily a solo project, several other musicians have recorded as part of Chroma Key such as bassist Joey Vera, drummer Mark Zonder, and guitarist Jason Anderson.
Chroma Key's music is a mix of psychedelia, electronica and ambient, with detailed keyboard sounds and a slightly dark mood.
After leaving Dream Theater in 1994, Moore relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico where much of the first album, 1998's Dead Air for Radios was written. 2000's You Go Now was written and recorded in Los Angeles, right before another move to Costa Rica, where Moore lived for 3 years. In Costa Rica, he began writing and recording ideas for a new Chroma Key album, during the day producing a bi-weekly, activist, musical radio program for Radio for Peace International, a short wave station based in San José. Moore released a compilation of the program—a mix of original music and politically volatile spoken word recordings—as a downloadable album on his official site as Memory Hole 1. Graveyard Mountain Home was recorded in Istanbul, Turkey.
Memory save me I'm fuckin up. Constantly laid on the ground. Looking for signs on the ceiling
"...I just have to keep breathing..."
(she wants me to know she wants me around). Think I was moving to something. Thought I was sailing along. Had to be sailing for someplace (thought I was right, but I must have been wrong). You do make a beautiful blinder, you hide things I don't want to see. Your arms cover me like a blanket and maybe it's all that I need.
"...I just have to keep breathing, I just have to keep breathing that's all it is, that's all it is that's keeping us going, that's all it is, is just me breathing, is just me breathing I inhale, and I exhale, and then, and then, then, then, I keep it going for nothing but, but you know, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't mind doing it for people, I just have to keep breathing, I just have to keep breathing..." [Male vocal sample: performance artist Todd Alcott. ] [The monologue from which this comes from is called "Lenore," ]
Memory save me I'm trippin up. Picking up bones from the ground. Throw me a chain and I'll climb it up (thought I was up, but I guess I was down). You look like a dream I was dreaming, a dream of a boy by the sea. You must have eyes just like mirrors, 'cause I thought I was looking at me. Close your eyes, think of the Best Thing To Say. iampathetically lost and maybe you made me this way. Memory save me I'm fuckin up. The sun's just a spot on the sea. I know I was reaching for something (thought it was you, but I guess it was me). And the world is a wonderful target, she was a wonderful world, but God is a girl who won't listen. She was an insolent girl. Close your eyes and see what you're doing to me? She catches my eye with a cynical smile and says, "I Cannot Solve All I See". I had a dream (dreams would fill my head, but I let 'em all slide, american-style, for the blanket that lays on my
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"...I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes..."
"...were you surprised that he died trying to look for other people?... ...no, he was the type of person, he was, he was... he was the type of person who would definitely go looking for the people..." [Female vocal sample: Tori Amos' "Song For Eric," overlayed with... ] [Male and female vocal samples: anonymous reporter/interviewee from ] [a tv news broadcast. ]
I wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting. I laid on the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading. I wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting. I laid on the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading. Now I feel myself fading. I jumped on a meaningful wave that carried me right to the shoreline. I laughed when my face hit the sand and swam out again for the joyride. I told you the things that I want and you gave me just what I needed. It's just like my father would want, but I couldn't smile when he did. I boarded the windows and doors and took the clock down from the ceiling. But I kept my head to the floor, 'cause I had a confident feeling. Somebody called me today, I answered the door kind of hazy. He told me to leave all my clothes, he told me to tell you you're crazy. I followed him out to the street, he pointed and quickly departed. And left me to travel for weeks, till I get to the place where I started. And I just want to be where I started, I just want to get back where I started, and I just want to be where I started, and I just want to get back where I started.