A Life Alone (2009, 81 MB, 5:08 min)
“Tom Rose, 85, wipes a tear from his eye while reminiscing about
his wife who passed away. The two were married for 60 years,
and Tom continues to struggle over her loss.”
By Maisie Crow.
Category Archives: audio
Sondheim – Watching Them
Watching Them (2010, 14MB, 38 secs)
ALL
ALL-BEARING Omniparous
ALL-CHEERING That which gives gaiety to all.
ALL-CONQUERING That which subdues every thing.
ALL-DEVOURING That which eats up every thing.
ALL-FOURS A low game at cards, played by two.
ALL-HAIL All health.
ALL-HALLOWN The time about All-saints day.
ALL-HALLOWTIDE The term near All-saints, or the first of November.
ALL-HEAL A species of iron-wort.
ALL-JUDGING That which has the sovereign right of judgment.
ALL-KNOWING Omniscient, allwise.
ALL-SEEING That beholds every thing.
ALL-SOULS DAY The day on which supplications are made for all souls
by the church of Rome; the second of November.
ALL-SUFFICIENT Sufficient to any thing.
ALL-WISE Possessed of Infinite Wisdom
(From John Walker’s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, 1825 ed.)
38 seconds of strange & aching beauty from Alan Sondheim.
The text above accompanied the original posting
of the vid on the Netbehaviour & Webartery lists.
Circulation by ZDEN
Circulation (2003, 56.1MB, 3:24 min)
ZDEN is a Slovakian artist and a pioneer in real-time
video performing – VJing. His live visuals are produced by a
self-developed post-production tool called CIRCULATION,
a software-based real-time 3 source video mixing engine.
Visit his site.
More vids here.
Troika Ranch -16 [R]EVOLUTIONS
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16 [R]EVOLUTIONS (2006, 3MB, 1:50 min)
I saw this piece from NY based group Troika Ranch a few years back
in deepest Essex, UK & it was utterly great –
took me about ten minutes to put my jaw back in postion after.
Certainly by far the most convincing & mature use of digital
technology/projection in a dance context I had then seen.
Much of the visual flavour comes from the Isadora real time video
manipulation software created by co-artistic director Mark Coniglio &
used together with motion sensing software.
It’s not just the tech stuff though – it’s great choreography & dance
somehow informed by the particular rhythms, logic, that the tech
feedback loop sets up, implies.
It’s the fact, too, that a company deploying cutting edge tech can
still use simple shadow & stillness to devastating effect.
donebestdone
Willow Creek Coffee (2006, 14.5MB, 47 sec.)
A Greater Degree of Hardware Awareness (2006, 25.6MB, 4:40 min.)
Is that a Shakespeare reference I see before me?
These 3 artists from Milwaukee ( who seem to have mutated
into an essentially music making outfit since) used whatever comes to
hand or mind, allied to an aesthetic that privileged
collaboration, speed & the improvisational,
to make this beautiful & engaging work.
Nam June Paik – documenta performance
documenta performance (1977, 6 MB, 1:35 min.)
The 1977 “documenta” show, which became known as the ‘media documenta’,
opened its doors with a live satellite telecast from Kassel.
Nam June Paik appeared together with Charlotte Moorman and used the slot
for a Dadaistic, allusive excursion through his performance and installation works.
from ZKM Videosammlung.
Morrisa Maltz – Let Me Tell You Something Important
Let Me Tell You Something Important (2010, 20MB, 17 secs)
Little taster, simultaneously spooky and ravishing, of the work of young LA based artist
Morrisa Maltz.
Very singular, very nicely executed, very good.
Something a little longer next week.
jimpunk remixes abe linkoln
DEATHDISCO aphrodisiskratch remix (2006, 16.8MB, 25 sec loop)
Neat remix from 2006 by jimpunk of abe linkoln’s DEATHDISCO.mov,
posted here yesterday.
The sample is aphrodisiskratch by DJ QBert.
More jimpunk on DVblog.
Abe Linkoln – DEATHDISCO
DEATHDISCO (2005, 22.7MB, 1:31 min.)
From Abe Linkoln in 2005.
with wavering light – Brian Gibson
with wavering light (2010, 31MB, 3:03 min.)
Delicate, beautiful & assured work from occasional contributor here,
Brian Gibson.
I do particularly love the recorded-as-live harmonium, which, unlike
so much of the current use of music in movie-making serves to somehow
open out, rather than close off, the piece’s field of meanings.