The hunt for Iamamiwhami goes on. Last friday, James Montgomerie at MTV recieved something interesting. A brown envelope containg a blonde knot of human hair, some splinters of balsa wood and a single strip of paper with the animal symbols from the ongoing Iamamiwhoami viral clips. Read more about this in MTV Newsroom.  So it seems by looking at the paper strip, the trick is to add the symbols together and then you get the answer or the next clue.

GOAT + OWL + WHALE + BEE + LLAMA + MONKEY =  ?????

Some people have decoded the message to mean all will be revealed at 11am on Monday - "Go tell all will be 11am monday". Any riddle experts out there?

There are a lot of bloggers etc claiming this production must be made in scandinavia and that could mean its a scandiavian artist. The nature and snowy forrests, the red little cabin with white frames, the strawberry birthday cake. All of it looks very swedish. Further to this, the twitter account of iamamiwhoami (linked to the youtube channel) goes by the name of Huldra Mandragora, a creature from Scandinavian folklore. Scandinavian artists mentioned are so far Lykke Li, The Knife, Jonna Lee, Röyksopp, Margaret Berger, Bjork, Sigur Ros

In a previous post I said that this is definately not the thing Aphex Twin would do. I still don't beleive it's his return, though it would be interesting if it was because I am a big fan of his. David Ritter beleives it is Aphex Twin, he presents why in this post. Other names being mentioned are: Goldfrapp, Trent Reznor, Little Boots, Massive Attack, MGMT, The Golden Filter and Lady Gaga.

Still Christina Aguilera remains the hottest guess with some really good clues indicating she is the one. Album coming called Bionic, The number codes on the clips can be read out to "Its me C" and "CH AG". The Chritina Aguilera evidences are presented in this clip.Though I have to say, the music is good electronica and far from the Christina Aguilera we've seen. I also don't think the girl in the IamamIwhoami clips looks like Christian Aguilera. And wouldn't it be the smartest thing to try to make it look like it was Christian Aguilera if you are a smaller artist trying to make a hype? I think it might be a case of piggy back riding.

For all the Iamwhoami clips check out my previous post about it. Today it's exactly one week since the last Iamamiwhoami clip was released. Hopefully we get another clue or even the answer soon.

The great hype around the Iamamiwhoami continues. Yesterday a new clip was released, you find it at the bottom of the post and its the 6th clip all in all. If you are not yet familliar with what - Iamamiwhoami - is read this quoted text from MTV news to catch up.

"It started in December, when a 55-second clip that featured plenty of trees, spindly, spooky appendages, and one particularly grisly live birth (or at least we think it's a live birth). Then, in early January, there was a second clip ... a dendrophiliac's wet dream, loaded with images of a mud-smeared woman licking a tree and some strangely sexualized sap. And owls, plenty of owls. And then, on Sunday, a third, this one a slo-mo underwater dream sequence, with a whole lot of confection, a murky fetus and exactly one singing whale shark.Then there are the numbers that accompany the videos — mysterious sequences of digits that may be spelling out some coded message, or revealing a release date (or may just be numbers) — and the music, a soundtrack of chiming, slightly ominous electronic bloops and bleeps. Confused? Intrigued? Welcome to the club.It's the ongoing saga of "Iamamiwhoami," the latest in a series of maddeningly compelling viral campaigns to seize the attention of Internet obsessives. Named for the YouTube user who began uploading the clips, the campaign has slowly become a full-blown frenzy, and the speculation has begun to run rampant about just who is behind it all." (MTV)

The Iamamiwhoami mystery is brilliant, and brilliant in so many ways. In short:

*Yes, its brilliant marketing. These mystery teasers are spreading in a way that makes the swine flu virus look like a joke. So the hype is there for the release of the album. Because that is what this must be a promotion for isn't it?

*The music is great, the sounds are amazing. Nice electronica, qualitu work indeed. Considering all these superlatives its hard for me to think that the two artists getting most of the guesses, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga, really can be the artists behind this stuff. The blonde girl in the clips might be a decoy though. Other names thrown around includes Lykke Li, Goldfrapp, Trent Reznor, MGMT, Madonna, Bjork and Aphex Twin. Christian Aguilera remains the top bet though. Especially when you see some work on the mysterious codes that comes with every clip.

From Popjustice:

The first video: Prelude 699130082.451322

6+9+9+1+3+0+0+8+2 = 38

4+5+1+3+2+2 = 17

decode using: A – 1, B – 2, C – 3, D – 4, etc…

38: CH (3 – C, 8 – H)

17: AG (1 – A, 7 – G)

CHristina AGuilera?

Another :

9.20.19.13.5.723378

I.T.S.M.E.(7+2+3+3+7+8=30 [3=C])

‘Its Me C’

Telling...

*The production and video is very high quality and ooozes high budget. Beautiful artistic videos all over.

All clips so far are gathered for you here below. Maf Lewis and Tara Busch has some great posts on this on one of my favourite blogs analogsuicide.com.

I'd love to hear you views on this. Who do you think is the artist behind these teaser clips and why do you think so?

Enjoy!

This post might be me making the perfect alibi and decoy...

Found this little clip on Youtube, geat job by IDMWEIGHTSIDM. It shows Aphex Twin can appeal to all ages. Extremely cute little girl! A bit scary to...

It's great when you combine the joy of making sounds, with the joy of editing images. It sort of like a DOUBLE joy that way. A favourite sound editing program of mine is Har-Bal, which combines graphics and sound, and is the "worlds first visual mastering equalizer" according to the makers. And it's really cool. Check it out for your self, since it's a bit hard to explain it.

And another cool looking program is Photosounder, but I haven't tried it yet. In it, you can turn sounds into images and vice versa. Editing sounds as an image gives you new possibilities, but it is the possibility to turn images into sounds that really fascinate me. Just think about it, you can go out in the forest, take a photo of a squirrel, and turn that image into techno!

But image-sound manipulation isn't new, but Photosounder sure looks like it takes it to a new level. Some of you might have heard about Apex Twin's hidden face in his song "Equation" (or what's it called?). If you view the song in a spectrogram viewer, you see this:

Youtube via TheGh0st81