Snippets from the 3 hour performance by the DAIPANbutoh Collective in South Seattle’s Japanese Garden: The Kubota Garden.
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I had the pleasure to read for Justine Chan’s book launch with some freshly written and generated works. Thanks to Ruth for the recording–the blur adds to the drama.
I recently recorded myself reading seven poems from various projects. They are below.
Thanks to R.K. for recording the reading this past Saturday at Super Position. Details in the YouTube description.
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.
I decided to submit five videos I worked on at the pandemic to the Healing Arts Expo, a showcase of employee art at LWTech. The work is on view in the library, my very niche of employment, and since there are no restrictions on sharing the videos elsewhere, here is the playlist you would find were you to stumble into that library.
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.
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:
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View.Point. Recording Now Up
Many thanks to Amy Billharz for recording and editing the View.Point. event at the end of last month. I’ve uploaded it to YouTube and it’s available in HD format. See below:
A spontaneous drop-in to the new performance art by Will Rawls at the Henry Art Gallery kept me captivated. I managed to capture the first 26 minutes of the performance and it can be viewed here:
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:
- Two full videos on YouTube: a silent video featuring original footage revealing the transitions of flowers from black and white to color; the same video with an added auditory bonus of an original composition of noise/music/etc.
- Two iterations of the audio track posted on Bandcamp: an album as one track and an album as split tracks. Splitting up the tracks follows in the footsteps of other sound artists I admire, and is the first time I’ve decided to craft smaller somethings out of a larger, original something else in Ableton.
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:
Using a new GoPro and cutting across the snow mile after mile, I recorded the Taylor River video below. The sound is a “live soundtrack” that I created while rewatching the video, experimenting with Komplete Kontrol, Ableton Live II, Massive, and Erosion+Distort+Reverb effects. I appreciated how Davinci and Ableton worked well together, and how everything ended up fitting despite some major hiccups in the process–namely with understanding some of the fundamental recording requirements in Ableton 11. The song can be found on Bandcamp here.
The track linked below, Cherry Creek Falls, features another recent track composed in Ableton 11. The music, composed of two individual tracks, was applied to footage taken from Cherry Creek Falls outside of Duvall, Washington in March 2021. This was the first abstract video I created with the Express (free) edition of Hitfilm, an app that’s very similar to Adobe Premiere (without the incredible cost). With all of the difference blending applied, the video rendering and exporting resulted in some pixelation and otherwise gritty results, but I have decided to cough that up to the software limitations. Overall, I’m still a fan of the psychedelic qualities in this work. I also find the slowed down, close-up of the falls to be a bit hard to watch–perhaps inducing motion sickness? In a way, there’s a surreal quality to this negative effect–one I couldn’t ignore or remove when I first discovered it.
The track is available on Bandcamp, and the video (which includes some waterfall leads) is available on YouTube. (Or watch below:)