Category Archives: music

Brantley Jones – Dead Plants

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Dead Plants
Dead Plants (2009, 36 MB, 1:24 min)

Another from the seemingly inexhaustible (but always pleasantly individual)
film seam at the School of Athens.
This is a lovely understated little study of ..er..dead plants, which fuses quirk,
a certain menace and a strange found beauty into something very satisfying.
Brantley Jones seems to live a double life – his website contains much more
“well made” stuff.
It will be interesting to see where he heads, eventually.

PS Also, how can you not warm to someone who lists the late great
David Foster Wallace as inspiration?

Two from The Silver Jews

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to the max
to the max (2005, 37.9MB, 3:30 min)

Sleeping is the Only Love
sleeping is the only love (2006, 7.2MB, 2:54 min)

From The Silver Jews.

Chris Collins – my great movie #1

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my great movie #1 (2007, 12 MB, 56 sec.)

By Chris Collins.

Sebastian Hernandez – DIY or Die #2 – Ladyfest

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Ladyfest (2009, 46 MB, 4:39 min)

Second in Sebastian Hernandez’ neat documentary series on DIY/alternative lifestyles.
I like the genuine respect & empathy Hernandez shows for his subjects, which doesn’t,
however, preclude honest & three dimensional film-making.
Once again Hernandez’ technical skills are evident (But not in a look at me! kind of way)
In particular I love the jumpy camera work/edit in the second interview, which manages to be
aesthetically pleasing without detracting from the actual substance of the interview – indeed
it adds to it.
Looking forward very much to seeing the third!

Sondheim/Carter/Foofwa

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involuntaries #4 (2009, 68.4MB 7:35 min)

Love all Sondheim’s stuff but particularly the dance work.
Here he is with Azure Carter & the jaw-dropping Foofwa d’Imobilité.
Extremely odd & extremely wonderful.
There’s lots more of these on Foofwa’s site ,
all well worth checking out.
( Plus a Foofwa conducted interview with the late Merce Cunningham)

I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever – Donna Kuhn

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I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever (2009, 56MB 2:29 min)

Donna Kuhn has joined the little pantheon (Sondheim’s another, as is Sam Renseiw)
of people whose work I’m just going
to post regularly because they are great.
No apology, no argument.
If you can’t see it, the problem is yours.
Great. Great. Great.

Deadlock

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Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)

from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.

John Mayer – In Repair – One Song, One Day

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In Repair – One Song, One Day (2005, 119MB, 18:42 min.)

John Mayer interview and studio footage, wherein he explains the writing
process in the studio of the song In Repair from the album Continuum.
With Steve Jordan and Charlie Hunter.

Everyone Everywhere

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The Landjugend – Everyone Everywhere (2007, 64.5MB, 3:56)

Made from the music of fifteen artists, for/in collaboration
with bizarro record label Cock Rock Disco, by
The Landjugend, which is Markus Feder & Martin Sulzer.

Tears For The Future

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Tears For The Future (2008, 78MB, 4:15 min.)

Video by Javier Morales and John Michael Boling.
Music by Javier. Commissioned by Map Magazine.

Dan Osborne – Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men

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Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men(2009, 86MB, 4:49min)

Splendid bit of drôlerie from Dan Osborne, whose work
we’ve featured here before and certainly will again.
It’s funny, sure, but as with a good deal of Osborne’s work it
treads an interesting line between funny bone and heartstring.
Oh..alright..maybe heartstring is a bit strong but there’s a
certain, and a rather touching, melancholy lurking here.

Also – what is it about Mariah Carey and art video on the net?

Chocolade Haas by Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts

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Chocolade Haas (2007, 26MB, 2:35 min.)

Three chocolate bunnies meet their smoking hot fate in this
twisted short movie realized by Sander Plug in collaboration
with Lernert Engelberts. Commissioned by Cut-n-Paste.

Genesis P-Orridge – 24

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Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge (2005, 20MB, 4:30 min.)

In this video, seminal rocker and radical body artist Genesis P-Orridge,
talks about early music experiments.

By Mica Scalin.

Sondheim

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laminanimal (2006, 8.3MB, 1:18 min)

Strange.
Strange & beautiful.
Strange & beautiful & nightmarish & funny & exhilarating.
From Alan Sondheim.

Juanjo Fern

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Sine Nights
Sine Nights (2004, 3.1MB, 1:08 min)

Deconstruccion Natural
Deconstruccion Natural #1 (2003, 7.9MB, 1:39 min)

Two nicely contrasting bits of work, both evidencing
a well developed visual sensibility from Barcleona based
artist & VJ Juanjo Fern

Reach – Prangstrg

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Lecture Musical
Reach – A Lecture Musical (2005, 15.3MB, 3 min.)

This video gives me chills, it is simply hilarious.
Performing a musical number to such a captive
and unsuspecting audience is wicked.
Takes a lot of guts to pull a stunt like this.
Prangstgr

By Mica Scalin.

instant conductors : tpada

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Instant conductors : Tpada (40.3MB, 4:19 secs)

A piece by Brian Gibson which captures you with
its trance like visuals and experimental audio.
Instant conductors : tpada is part of a full length
album project created with a video camera to capture visuals
and audio then assembling them into a stunning form of art.
Using a range of different camera angles focused in on areas
from where the musical source is created, this forms an explosion
of creativity manifesting as hybrid song/video.
If you’re intrigued by this clip it’s well worth checking out
untitled project 3 which features
a short number on mini organ with video accompaniment.
Also download the 3 track EP for free at glimpsecontrol .

Jonathan Beards

My Funny Valentine Again

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My Funny Valentine
My Funny Valentine (2006, 15.1MB, 2:55 min)

Video by Michael Szpakowski.
The singer is his daughter, Anna Szpakowska.
(Michael playing the piano).

..once again a happy Valentine’s Day to all from us at DVblog.org

‘Easy Listening’ – Marisa Olson

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Easy Listening (2005, 4.2MB, 1:56 min.)

At once a performance and performance-documentation, this video
grew out of the admission that much of Marisa Olson

DVblog will eat itself

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mouth study (2005, 7.8MB, 3:40 min)

Using footage from the ‘cutting edge cinema‘ thing
we posted here before Lewis LaCook,
created an utterly exuberant & assured piece of appropriation
video with 186,000 ideas per second.

moiMovies – Marisa Olson

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moiMovies, compilation #1 (2005, 5MB, 2:19 min.)

Consisting of short video juxtapositions of old images of
the artist andrecordings of her voice, Mo

Junk House Butt House

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Lucid Unison – Bunk House (2008, 37.4MB, 3:52)

Occasional DVblog contributor Brian Gibson‘s latest
project, Lucid Unison, is part art blog, part mashup
collaboration, part band. For the band section, Junk
House Butt House, they (Brian and partner in crime
Camber Gleim) made a video, seen here. Brian’s
immeasurable talent is always a total pleasure
to experience in whatever form it takes.

DVblog’s Doron & Michael at HTTP Gallery, London

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West of the Great Altar of Zeus (Doron, 2009, 27MB, 1:51 min)

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9 Third Avenue Haiku (Michael, 2008, 52.7MB, 4:32 min)

About

We normally avoid posting our own work but this
time we’re going to make an exception.
Doron & I have a joint show at HTTP gallery & we’d like to
invite any DVblog readers in the area to come
along to the private view, this Friday, 16th January.
(Details on the HTTP site linked above)
I’ve posted a piece by each of us (which should
give you a feel for whether you’d love or hate us) but the HTTP
show is going to be a little different from our usual work
so please come along, have a drink, take a look & say hello…

Helmut Oehring – BlauWaldDorf

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Blau Wald Dorf ( Blue Wood Village) (excerpt) (2001, 1.7MB, 53 secs)

The music of Helmut Oehring is like nothing you’ve ever heard.
A hearing child of deaf mute parents, he incorporates his early
experiences into the music he writes, which frequently features
sign language ( not in a token but a completely necessary and
integrated manner).
The actual sound world of the music, moreover, is suffused with a character that
must surely have been formed by those same early experiences -stringed instruments
are tuned down to points of almost unplayable slackness & there is a fragmentary and
distanced, almost walled-off, quality to it all.
If you’re intrigued by the clip it’s well worth checking out recordings of his stuff.