TWiN's Jonathan and Josh Baker with Rabbit rep Katrin Aul.

Rabbit, New York directors TWiN received a tip of the hat at Q Department's Director Series last Thursday (April 23). The music and sound design studio created the Series - an intimate, invite-only session that features a music mix curated by the guest director - to pay homage to the filmmaker as "auteur of distinctive experiences". TWiN (real-life twins Jonathan and Josh Baker) amply delivered with a session that in turn paid homage to their most influential albums. The duo explain the night's concept below:

"Music and the use of sound in our work are incredibly important to us, and we try
to stay as involved in the process as we possibly can. I guess we have very strong
opinions when it comes to the way sound and images combine - and the resulting
emotion this hopefully provides an audience - and that's how we tried to approach
the party. It's the chance to 'direct' the playlist of the night, but we wanted to take
the concept a little further and integrate some visuals that could potentially give the
event a bit more experience-factor.

"We've always been fanboys of the illustration world, and really only get to
collaborate with them during the pre-production and conceptual stage of a visual-FX
project. What got us excited was the idea of working with twenty different artists
interpreting our playlist of favorite music. What we came up with was
'OurFavoriteAlbumsNotYours'. We then had the hard task of narrowing the history
of music down to twenty recent albums that influence and inspire us as directors
[and that we agree on!], and then having to gather 20 New York illustrators that
were up for the challenge. Luckily the project seemed unique enough that damn
near 90% of the guys we asked jumped at the chance to come in and draw up an
original piece on camera. Our only brief was for them to take inspiration from the
two chosen songs, and apply their individual talents to a huge blank canvas in black
marker. Sped-up footage of the artworks would then be played throughout the party
along with the music, and the pieces themselves exhibited for all to see.

"We really wanted to celebrate the collaboration of art and music, and put our
personal touch on it. For us it'll be the perfect night. Our exact taste in music,
and one of our favorite art forms synced perfectly with beer."

To see photos from the event, visit Boards Photo Gallery blog here

Check out pics from Q Department's past Director Series featuring Tom Kuntz, Joseph Kosinski, Tronic and more here, and stay tuned for the May installment featuring Smuggler director Guy Shelmerdine.