Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur

Рождение : 1972-03-17, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

История

Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress. Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole in the summer of 1994 and is included on several Hole releases, including the album Celebrity Skin (1998). Following her departure from Hole in 1999, Auf der Maur briefly joined The Smashing Pumpkins as a touring member for its 2000 tour and began her solo career; her debut studio album, Auf der Maur, was released in 2004 on Capitol Records and her second studio album, Out of Our Minds, was released in 2010 on her own independent record label, PHI–MAdM Music. VH1 placed Auf der Maur at number 68 on its list of 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll in 2007. Auf der Maur is also a photographer and occasional actress. Her photographs have been included in National Geographic and exhibited at Sotheby's. She has acted in How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), Beyond Borders (2003) and Collaborator (2011). As part of her 2009 multidisciplinary project Out of Our Minds—which produced an album, a single, a film and a comic book—Auf der Maur acted as a film and record producer, working alongside her husband and filmmaker Tony Stone. Stone and Auf der Maur are the creative directors and owners of Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York.

Профиль

Melissa Auf der Maur

Фильмы

Тед К. Унабомбер
Executive Producer
История о том, как талантливый математик и философ Тед Качинский стал террористом по прозвищу Унабомбер. 17 лет он рассылал бомбы учёным, которые поддерживали научный прогресс, потому что считал, что современные технологии — это худшее, что когда-либо случалось с человечеством, и продвигать их — не что иное, как преступление.
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Herself
In May 1997, Tim Taylor, creative force behind the beloved Dayton, Ohio rock weirdos BRAINIAC, was on the verge of his band signing to a major record label when his life was cut tragically short by a freak accident. He was 28 years old. Devastated, his family, friends and fans were forced to pick up the pieces. This film explores the history and legacy of Taylor and one of the 90s most original bands.
Play Your Gender
Self
Juno Award-winning musician Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why only 5% of music producers are women even though many of the most bankable pop stars are female. What does it take for a woman to make it in music?
Peter and the Farm
Producer
Peter Dunning is a rugged individualist in the extreme, a hard-drinking loner and former artist who has burned bridges with his wives and children and whose only company, even on harsh winter nights, are the sheep, cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter is also one of the most complicated, sympathetic documentary subjects to come along in some time, a product of the 1960s counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing.
Rammstein: in Amerika
Herself
The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In HD and 5.1 surround sound. For the documentary, Rammstein provided extensive, previously unreleased footage and photos from the band archive. In numerous interviews from various periods in the band’s history, the band members speak about their experiences across the Atlantic.
Cássia
Self (archive footage)
Cássia Eller Rejane. Cássia Eller. Cássia. A powerful restless force on stage, shined herself out of it. One of the greats of Brazilian music, Cássia Eller marked the 1990s and shocked the country with her early death in 2001. A film about the singer, the mother, the woman who exposed her personal life and broke barriers, leaving a beautiful social and artistic legacy.
Hit So Hard: Школа жизни Патти Шемель
Self
Документальный фильм о жизни Патти Шемель, наиболее известной, как ударник рок-группы Hole. Фильм содержит видео Шемель, снятые во время её пребывания в группе, а также интервью с ней, её бывшими коллегами по группе, и другими музыкантами.
Collaborator
Alice Longfellow
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Out Of Our Minds
Producer
A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.
Out Of Our Minds
Story
A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.
Out Of Our Minds
Woman With Car / Cloak
A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.
The Zen of Screaming
Herself
In the early '90s, a passionate and unrestrained movement of singers emerged from the underground that would test the extreme limits of the human voice. Heeding the call of the warriors of rock and metal for over 15 years, Melissa Cross developed a vocal training method that has since been embraced by these artists who value raw power and passion above everything in their performance. Her groundbreaking vocal technique can enhance range and increase endurance without sacrificing intensity and individuality. Combining solid voice technique and a groundbreaking vocal workout with tour-bus humor and backstage commentary, this DVD is as entertaining as it is informative. The Zen of Screaming is the first of it's kind a a must-have tool for the modern vocalist of all genres. —Loudmouth, Inc.
Luck
Original Music Composer
Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
За гранью
Charity Ball Band Bass Player
Молодая замужняя американка Сара Джордан, живущая в Англии, оказывается на благотворительном вечере и слышит жаркую речь, произнесенную доктором Ником Кэллахэном. Его пламенный призыв о помощи детям стран, вовлеченных в военные конфликты, перевернула жизнь Сары навсегда.Очарованная Ником и его благородными идеями, она расстается со спокойной жизнью и, жертвуя своим благополучием, устремляется навстречу риску, опасности и… своей любви. На протяжении десяти лет судьба будет сводить Сару и Ника в разных «горячих точках» нашей планеты — в Камбодже, Эфиопии и Чечне, приготовив влюбленным страшные испытания.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection
Herself
Released alongside The Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits CD "Rotten Apples", this video collection comes with all of the Pumpkins music videos (excluding "The End is the Beginning is the End"). It also comes with a live performance of "Geek USA" and "An Ode to No One" which is taken from their final performance at the Metro. There is also a hidden video for the never-before-released song "Untitled". All of the videos come with commentary from the band and some have out-takes and behind the scenes footage.
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Self
Part of "The Women in Music" series
The Righteous Babes
Self (archive footage)
The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism not in the library but in the rock concert hall. The film shows interviews and performances. In addition, controversial feminists along with American and British women journalists share their views on pop culture.
How to Make the Cruelest Month
Seven
Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she puts all her energy into the second.
Hole Unplugged
Bass
On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with a string ensemble, The group played a mix of hits off "Live Through This," plus new material, covers by Duran Duran and Donovan, and unreleased Nirvana track "You Know You're Right."