| Ace Baker | |
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Baker in his composer's studio, Sherman Oaks, California, while scoring "Route 30, Too!", December 2011. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alexander Collin Baker |
| Born | 6 June 1960 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, filmmaker, digital compositor, inventor, activist, scientific researcher, author |
| Instruments | Piano, Keyboards, Guitar, Drum Machine, Vocals |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Associated acts | REO Speedwagon, Gary Richrath, The Supremes, Mother's Finest, Clair Marlo, Ice-T, 9/11 - The Great American Psy-Opera |
Alexander "Ace" Baker (born in 1960) is an American composer, keyboardist, inventor, author, filmmaker and conspiracy theorist.
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Along with Clair Marlo, Baker was the series composer for American Dragster, a documentary series on ESPN from 2006-2007.[1]
Ace Baker has composed the music score for a number of feature films, including "Tycus" starring Dennis Hopper, and "Intrepid" starring academy award winner James Coburn. [2]
Collaborating with songwriter Amy Powers, Baker wrote and produced the song "I'm on My Way", which was the end title track to "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper", and which featured vocalist Sara Niemietz, [3]
Ace Baker has scored the majority of the films by indie director John Putch*.[4] 1999 saw Putch's film "Valerie Flake", featured at the Sundance Film Festival. and integrated with the songs of Kathleen Wilhoite. "The Pursuit of Happiness" followed in 2000. More recently, Baker has scored two more Putch films - "Mojave Phone Booth (film)" (2007) starring Annabeth Gish, Missi Pyle and Steve Guttenberg, and "Route 30 (film)" (2008) with Dana Delaney, Curtis Armstrong, Robert Romanus and David Delouise.
Baker was the keyboard player for Mary Wilson and the Supremes (1986–1987), Iron Butterfly (1987) *List of Iron Butterfly band members, Gary Richrath/REO Speedwagon (1991), Mother's Finest (1993), Clair Marlo (1993), and Raquel Aurilia (2005–2008).
In 2009 Baker was awarded United States Patent # 7585931 for his new method of generating ringtones and performing interactive music. This patent is based on his discovery that phone numbers translate into musical melodies, and because every phone number is unique, the melody defined by a phone number is a unique musical composition, uniquely associated with the person that owns the phone number.[5]
Ace Baker was awarded a gold record for his drum beat programming on the Ice-T record Freedom of Speech (1989).
In 2007 Baker authored and published a medical treatise entitled "Corposcindosis - The Effects of Thoracic Sympathectomy in Humans". [6] Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy, otherwise known as "ETS Surgery", is a procedure Ace Baker underwent in 2002, and that he now considers to be "involutary human medical experimentation". [7]
Coined by Baker, "Corposcindosis" literally means "Split Body Syndrome". The term has been adopted by the medical community, appearing with its definition in a journal article by surgeon Pascal Dumont. [8]
Baker researched and authored an analysis of the 9/11 airplane videos. Baker presents 22 data points that he claims prove the airplane crashes into the twin towers must have been faked using digital compositing. [9] The compositing claim is also presented in his film "9/11 - The Great American Psy-Opera" (see below).
Baker has also written on economic theory. His "The Origin of Money (and how it was stolen from you)" presents a theoretical reconstruction of money, as held by the Austrian School of Economics. [10]
In 2011 Ace Baker released "9/11 - The Great American Psy-Opera". [11] The ten chapters total over five hours, and are "a scientific, historic, and musical exploration of 9/11". In addition to Baker's original research, commentary and music, it features interviews with Steven Jones, Judy Wood, Morgan Reynolds, Jerry Leaphart, Frank Greening, Voicu Popescu, and Mete Sozen. [12]
In the first three chapters Baker chronicles the history and claims of the 9/11 Truth Movement, while comparing them to the mainstream account of 9/11.
Chapter 4 ("Phenomena") presents an in-depth look at evidence from ground zero. According to the film, "radioactive tritium, strontium, barium, molecular dissociation, a mushroom cloud, the "meteorite", 1400 melted motor vehicles, the china syndrome, and rare cancers" prove the twin towers were destroyed by nuclear reactions. [13]
Chapters 6 ("What Planes?") and 7 ("The Key") present what Baker claims is proof that the 9/11 airplane videos were faked using digital compositing. As evidence, the film asserts that the nose of a CGI airplane was accidentally revealed, that there are contradictions between different camera angles, a missing shadow, suspicious editing, a lack of wake vortex, a video that should show an airplane but doesn't, and other anomalies. [14]
The Psy-Opera film goes on to identify what is termed a "controlled opposition", an infiltration strategy Baker claims is responsible for the failure of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Throughout the film, Baker becomes increasingly frustrated and depressed at disingenuous conduct by leaders of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The entire movie ends with Baker's fictional handgun suicide. The "pseudocide" was filmed on January 5, 2009, during an interview on Jim Fetzer's radio show "The Real Deal". Baker acts tearfully despondent, and expresses his contention that the leaders of the 9/11 Truth Movement are disinformation agents. Over Fetzer's pleas Baker says to his deceased parents, "I'm coming home". Moments later a gunshot sound effect was played for the radio audience, as Baker pointed a handgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. In the finished film, Baker used digital compositing to insert a blood spatter and other elements. [15]
January 7, 2009, two days after the filming, Baker made a lengthy blog post explaining it was a work of performance art intended to convey his contempt for the Truth Movement. He also indicated that there was a second message that would become clear in the film. In December 2011 he revealed that his purpose was to encourage viewers to question the authenticity of all video. [16]
Baker's "Theory of Ghostplane" is a short demonstration of how to insert a CGI airplane into video, and make it appear to disappear through a wall. It has received featured status on YouTube, with well over 1,000,000 views.[17]
Ace Baker has a standing written offer of $100,000 (U.S.) to make a copy of any 9/11 airplane penetration video in original quality. He believes that original quality video is unavailable because "reducing quality on a composite image is the best way to hide the messy fingerprints of the compositing process". [18]
Baker also has a standing written offer of $100,000 for John Hutchison to demonstrate the Hutchison Effect. The Hutchison Effect is claimed to be a mysterious source of free energy, but Baker believes it to be a hoax accomplished with "old school trick photography". [19]