"Speed Too" [mp3 removed]. My remix of John Parker's remix of my Mac SE tune(s). Work in process--still editing this piece, but give it a listen!
The show we're in in Toronto, curated by Sally McKay, is called "Mods and Rockers" (opening May 12th at York Quay Centre, part of digifest). The work will be video displayed on two screens, separated by several feet in a public hallway, with a music soundtrack accessible through headphones hanging between the videos.
Don't know what the other invited artist teams are doing, but rather than have some kind of face-off, or rumble, we're merging sensibilities. The collective inner Mod is the high tech influence in the form of some sophisticated audio software and newish laptop used to edit and burn the video, and the inner Rocker is the low tech source material: 8-Bit-style tunes on an old Mac (some originally composed in the '80s) and animated GIFs based on MSPaint versions of John's flat work.
We're trying for some sort of parity between the audio and visual material. Pixels and square waves as both medium and subject.
This is just my dashed off statement, issued with John's more or less approval based on an earlier email. Like the music and video we've been posting, it could be Modified. Or I could be off my Rocker.
You guys are great! It's been really fun to follow your project's development here. I love this piece, and listening to it while watching your latest gif is like brain sculpture.
Thanks, Sally. I'm about halfway to getting that GIF to DVD form. It's slow, a lot of trial and error is involved.
We're thinking that piece would be by itself on one TV and the rapidly spinning disc would be on the other. Just simple iconic looping things.
The alternative is the grid of four asynchronous bathtub sticker pieces.
The other alternative is to have several GIFs per TV, each running for a short time before rapidly cutting to another. I won't really know until I get them burned and see how they look on my "test screen."
Just musing out loud here.
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"Speed Too" [mp3 removed]. My remix of John Parker's remix of my Mac SE tune(s). Work in process--still editing this piece, but give it a listen!
The show we're in in Toronto, curated by Sally McKay, is called "Mods and Rockers" (opening May 12th at York Quay Centre, part of digifest). The work will be video displayed on two screens, separated by several feet in a public hallway, with a music soundtrack accessible through headphones hanging between the videos.
Don't know what the other invited artist teams are doing, but rather than have some kind of face-off, or rumble, we're merging sensibilities. The collective inner Mod is the high tech influence in the form of some sophisticated audio software and newish laptop used to edit and burn the video, and the inner Rocker is the low tech source material: 8-Bit-style tunes on an old Mac (some originally composed in the '80s) and animated GIFs based on MSPaint versions of John's flat work.
We're trying for some sort of parity between the audio and visual material. Pixels and square waves as both medium and subject.
This is just my dashed off statement, issued with John's more or less approval based on an earlier email. Like the music and video we've been posting, it could be Modified. Or I could be off my Rocker.
- tom moody 4-07-2006 9:11 am
You guys are great! It's been really fun to follow your project's development here. I love this piece, and listening to it while watching your latest gif is like brain sculpture.
- sally mckay 4-07-2006 6:32 pm
Thanks, Sally. I'm about halfway to getting that GIF to DVD form. It's slow, a lot of trial and error is involved.
We're thinking that piece would be by itself on one TV and the rapidly spinning disc would be on the other. Just simple iconic looping things.
The alternative is the grid of four asynchronous bathtub sticker pieces.
The other alternative is to have several GIFs per TV, each running for a short time before rapidly cutting to another. I won't really know until I get them burned and see how they look on my "test screen."
Just musing out loud here.
- tom moody 4-07-2006 6:53 pm