the blog of makemassair

I’ve mentioned this before and I can’t quite believe it’s happening this Friday, 8th January 2010, but it is and to say I’m excited is quite the understatement.

I was commissioned by the Big Chill festival’s visual curator John Rixon early in 2009 to produce a short audio visual piece based around the theme of Quiet Voices. John was really interested in my Downbeaten Exploratory series of mixes I produced in late 2008 and early 2009 (of which I will be doing new ones in 2010, grab the first 2 here) and was aware of my editing and video production work. I’ve been to a few Late at Tate events before and the quality of work blows me away, so to be asked to provide a piece for the event is quite an honour.

My piece, sevenzero, is my interpretation of ambient. It’s not really background sound, nor is it stuff that demands your complete attention. In my opinion it nestles somewhere in between. Comprised of footage filmed on location in Scotland with sound produced specifically for this piece.

If you can make it down, feel free to come over and say hi.

Quiet Voices, curated by former Big Chill visuals resident John Rixon, is an ambient audio-visual feast. Featuring Roger Eno and Dom Theobald, Jon Hopkins, Laura B and Graina, John Rixon and Simon Wild, Animat and Alucidnation. Together with a short film programme exploring the nature of ‘quiet’, expect an evening of beautiful aural soundscapes and lush cinematic projections.

Auditorium
19.00 & 20.30
12 short films exploring and responding to the theme of Quiet Voices.

RayV: 3 Steps, 3 min 18 sec
Alex Pearl: Lodgings, 4 min 19 sec
Annabel Dover: Imperial, 4 min 8 sec
Bonny John/soundtrack by Input Junkie: A cloudless sky, 7 min
Animat: A promise of snow, 7 min 36 sec
Sounds for the Ground – video by MachV: First Light, 5 min 47 sec
Another Fine Day: Buckets & Spades, 11 min 36 sec
Emily Richardson: Redshift, 4 min 9 sec
Lulu Horsfield – soundtrack by Amy Mallet: one hundred, 5 min 6 sec
Phoebe Rixon – soundtrack by Enrico Coniglio: Mothlight, 2 min 31 sec
makemassair: Sevenzero, 5 min 40 sec
Lucy Wilson: 5:48, 5 min 40 sec

Big fan of the United Visual Artists work. They are constantly pushing themselves and their work is always inspiring and cohesive.

Massive Attack ‘United Snakes’ directed by United Visual Artists.

United Visual Artists are a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation. Research and development is a core part of our process – enabling us to constantly explore new fields, as well as re-examining more established ones.

We aim to work on a diverse and expanding range of projects, drawn from the commercial and non-commercial arenas, and to collaborate with a wide range of artists and companies.

As promised in previous posts (namely project: Acedia, the photoshoot & new project: Acedia.) here we have the recording of the début performance of fashion designer Sample Remix’s audiovisual multimedia Acedia show. In collaboration with myself, makemassair, and deadman dj (who did a fantastic job on the sound design, as well as redubbing the live recording with the original audio).

The show was met with a great reception and it really was one of the performances of the whole night. Looking forward to future performance projects with Sample Remix.

All garments designed and produced by Sample Remix. (sampleremix.co.uk)
Video produced by makemassair. (makemassair.co.uk)
Sound design by deadman dj. (deadmandj.net)

Clothing modelled and performed in by
Aiko, Lolita Trash, Miss Harriet, Grace Tebbutt, Biomechanina, Miss Cobweb, Ella DV

Performed at Festival of Sins. (festivalofsins.co.uk)

Lukasz Lysakowski has produced this video: Color Process. It’s part of an audiovisual performance between himself and Eduard Artemyev (who provided the audio).  I’ve highlighted it on the makemassair blog because it is both visually textured and aesthetically very pleasing. In my humble opinion anyways.

Why not leave a comment with your opinion.

I believe (from the information provided on Vimeo) that the video is a combination of the coding languages Processing, and MAX/MSP with Jitter, but with what doing which bit I don’t know (although I am very keen to uncover).

My realtime video work focuses on creating a nonlinear narrative which folds and unfolds in reaction to the interplay between sound and image. Digitization and processing allows for intuitive and spontaneous creation of image-sound scapes. Each video work is unique, situated in time and space, and reflects the ephermal nature of our experiences.

Did it ever go away? I’m not sure.

Remember about 10 years ago you would go bowling or to a large service station on the Motorway and they had virtual reality machines (they probably still do, shows how long ago I went bowling).

Developed by IDEO Labs as an immersive projection rig which in their own words:

A simple, featherweight headset, a 10ft x 10ft x 10ft white room, and $600,000 worth of projector and computer equipment, combined with the smarts of the folks at Eon Reality, results in one insanely real experience.

Robert Seidel, commissioned by the Nabi Art Centre, developed this immense installation, currently on display at the SKT Tower in Seoul, South Korea. Huge dimensions visualised on several LED screens.

slices of a virtual sculpture, dimension 100 x 125 x 80 meters

In a time of complete virtualisation of knowledge, science and monetary flows the virtual sculpture “vellum” transfers the memory of one specific urban rhythm to another locality.

The video is a documentation and an excerpt of the work.

Links
Vellum at Robert Seidel’s page
COMO Media Platfrom, Seoul
Nabi Art Center, Seoul

Shot on Rebel SLR.
Still photos. Color in AE. Edit & some smoothcam in FCP. Music by fennesz.

Mothlight Creative

visual music composition #002

This  video contains excerpts from a live mixing session performed on 8 VCR decks with some analog feedback/delay effects.

May contain micro samples from Yuri by Meat Beat Manifesto,
Right as Rain by Deadbeat, Circus Train by Patric Dawes,
Silver Circle by Jan Jelinek and Renku Corporation.

This is just, well awesome. Watch…

Director Adam Berg created this amazing interactive campaign for Philips’ new CINEMA 21:9 TV, it’s got me quite moist.

Found on-line at www.philips.co.uk/cinema, the site is host to an exclusive fully interactive movie, entitled Carousel, directed by Adam Berg with music provided from Michael Fakesch. The 2 minute 19 second cinematic feature is filmed in one continuous tracking shot and offers an exploration into the world of movies being made for the cinema screen through the eyes of the director and the special effects and lighting experts. During playback of the movie, users have interactive touch points in which they can access additional content and feature demonstrations.

The YouTube version of this suffers from low resolution, so check out the original.