My first audio project of 2024 is “The Old Way,” a track that starts with a field recording. It’s dedicated to Amber Cortes and is inspired by Dishman Hills Natural Area in Spokane, as well as the film The Old Way of which the track takes its name. Listen to the track here.
My latest project is complete, and it’s noisy.
The soundtrack I created for the Altar(ations) performance during Altar/Alter is now on Bandcamp. At roughly 30 minutes and featuring field recordings from 11 locations, it’s one of my more ambition productions. Check it out below.
I’ve just gotten back from a retreat at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, where I spent a few days roaming around the rainforest and coastline seeking out more field recordings, studying intimacy, and generally finding myself enjoying the natural solitude.
Very grateful to have the View.Point.2 recordings uploading to the ‘Tube. Many thanks to Amy Billharz and David Goodman for their recording efforts. Playlist below! As of this writing, 2/3 of the videos are up.
A rather terrible recording from April 23, 22.
Another show, another covert audio recording.
The first time I heard this song, I was blown away. I’ve kept it in mind to do a music video for it for months now, and here it is at 60fps.
I had the opportunity to see The Microphones play at the Capitol Theater in Olympia this past Sunday. I managed to capture the recording in full and it’s available here:
After twisting and turning my way through Coil’s discography, I decided I had to pay homage with a couple music videos. One is for “Going Up” and it’s full of footage from a trip to the Olympics this past summer.
After working on “Going Up,” I decided to make use of the large bodies of footage of water from the past year that have found miscellaneous digital dust collecting on them. Altogether they helped form the music video for the single-track album, “Queens of the Circulating Library,” which resonated with me the first time I heard it.
At 49 minutes long, it’s one of my largest abstract video projects to date, and one that also includes some narrative elements within the abstraction.
These follow up two other music videos I’ve created in the past, one for “Ex-American Blues” by Speaker Music:
And one for KMRU’s “drawing water,” created this past summer:
A couple nights ago I had the pleasure of reading a poem with the Jim O’Halloran Trio at Kezira Cafe in Columbia City, Seattle. The poem, “Return to Rain,” is linked below. Here’s the segment of the set with the reading:
And some larger selections of the show.
Sadly, the focus was set to auto and was doing some really weird stuff in the low-light room. The sound isn’t perfect either, but better than null!
And here’s the poem:
Following up my last music video for KMRU, I have created a music video for another artist I really enjoy listening to: Speaker Music. The latest album, Soul-Making Theodicy, is mindblowing, and a combination of it and previous releases led to the drive to make this video. Footage includes videos of night and day sky over Cathedral Gorge, NV, timelapse of Grand Lake, and a particularly attractive flower in Seattle. Davinci did all matter of glitchiness (as it usually does when using blend effects) and the result is quite abstract. Note setting the video to HD 60 frames is ideal for viewing on a larger screen.
Below you’ll find a new video, an homage to the great KMRU. His ambient music is stunning, and I have found myself listening to it for many, many hours. The music video was created under fair use. The footage is from a recent trip to Copper Creek in the Olympic National Forest. As a bonus to the video, I have decided to include some new GIFs, created with Resolve and QGifer (a new app I’ve been flexing with).
Additional GIFs (recommended download):
After some toiling across software platforms, I have finalized another project: Dunn Gardens (2021). This project includes the following:
For fun, here are the still images used in the track images in Bandcamp, screenshots from the video revealing the black and white beginnings of each flower shot:
