It's a trip

Another vacation, another "beat vignette". This one is me walking into Placa Catalunya in Barcelona. I love videos of walking through crowds. I have a few similar shots that are especially cool from NYC. This was shot with my favorite little camera, the Harinezumi, which is excellent for shooting inconspicuously due to it's small size. I loved some of the still frames of people looking at me, as well as some people just framed well in passing, so I decided to accentuate that, it almost makes for a 'where's Waldo' effect. The music it self is a modified version an older track of mine called "Streets Empty". Interesting technical note is the live drum samples come from when I was interning at Arlyn studios, and are some great room mic recordings done with a U87 in the main room which is nice and "woody".

Below are the stills that are at the beginning of the video. I think each has a rather cool composition about it. I love the girl looking right at the camera and the confused looking couple that seem to be melting into the glare. Also, I really dig the man making the classic 'searching' gesture, which I am sure is just meant to block the sun, but I like to think of him as a wayward traveler, and he kind of reminds me of Rick Steves. The last shot I just like the guys candid face and the frame composition of the background.

Sentimental View

Just a short little clip I did while working on making a live incarnation of our Bluffs project. I've been slowly building a library of video clips for eventual use as source material for live projected visuals. The below is one of those clips.

Time Squared

A little video I took while our shuttle crawled along through Times Square. I set aside a few hours the other night and created this little beat vignette to 'score' it. Tossed in a little modular mayhem courtesy of Moog, Korg, and Bleep Labs and Viola! I generally have music running through my head, so this is sort of like my minds eye view. I think I planned on doing more to this, but as it is I probably spent too much time making sure that the fades and subtle changes match up to stuff on screen, all the while wondering if the small handful of people who see it will even notice (same with any sort of art right?). Part of me thinks I should be doing this sort of thing to "good" (higher quality) footage, but I sort of like how even the blindingly bright lights are muted and dark. I thought about doing some video correction, but I like the noise. L85.

Patterns Unseen.

I always love seeing patterns that we can't normally see. I adore the way that two similar perforated patterns passing each other reveal a hidden interference pattern, but there are even more amazing patterns that we are not normally aware of that are floating by us, drifting through space and time, pulsing, expanding, reshaping each other as they flitter in and out of existence. Seemingly random patterns of light, movement, reactions, etc, if drawn or plotted often start to reveal surprising shapes and forms that otherwise will have gone unseen. When I contemplate these patterns, I begin to day dream of those interlaced patterns of the universe that predict the unpredictable, and point to the unknown. The video below reveals amazing patterns in harmonics of sound through pairs of frequency modulation based oscillators. Very definable shapes in patterns hidden in sound, a sound that if you were to only hear, you would have no idea contained such structure! Watch as it unfolds, into seemingly 3D shapes, and complex diminishing patterns.

When I grow up.

I think ever since I saw "The Minds Eye" video I wanted to be a 3D animation artist, and I would love love love to be a professional sound designer. I suppose I am closer to a sound designer than an animator, someday maybe I will find time to get into animation. This video combines both those loves. Someone out there is living my dream as a work week. Hopefully someday I too will get serious about it.
(Watch High Res with good sound if you can)

Pie Pants.

Excuse the Simpsons reference there but, this video is amazing! I love everything about it. The sound, the method, the science! I have often day dreamed what it would be like if we could see sound, or watch waves of energy bounce and collide around us, so this is pretty awesome:

Amazing rarites!

Tubular Bells by the Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra

I saw this video over at Matrixsynth and it is amazing! Not only does it feature amazing playing and players, but it is just chalked full of rare keys and synths (as well as some modern ones, like my Phatty). The amazing variety of awesome instruments is inspiring to me. I could never play like these girls (OK maybe I could match Super Cute) but I hope to one day own a collection of key based oddities HALF that awesome. Some many one of a kinds, that only do one sound really well... it's like a pallet of colors only few artists have the privilege of working with. I hope to some day just have an awesome collection so I can have awesome players come into my studio and just let them run wild. Until then, I will watch this video now and then until it goes away.