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.

Lazy Sunday

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Lazy Sunday (2005, 15.7MB, 2:22 min.)

“watch this video because it

Crosswalk – Kelly Mark

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Kelly Mark – Crosswalk (2001, 1.2MB, 0:38)

Basketball court sprints at a busy intersection. Man unknown.
From Kelly Mark.

Kate Maki – We are Gone

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We Are Gone (2008, 55.8MB, 2:50 min)

I was drawn to this because of its connection with the
sublime Howe Gelb ( he produced & plays on the album & it’s on
his OW-OM label), but it’s winning beyond that very good intial reason.
Ms Maki’s song & performance are quite lovely in their passionate restraint
& the video, directed by Scott Cudmore & shot by Lee Towndrow on,
I gather, though I’ve lost the link to the page that told me so, the ‘video’
setting of a stills cam, matches the song in passion, restraint & loveliness.
Cudmore and Towndrow pass, with flying colours, a very simple test
-anyone who can’t produce something affecting with the most minimal
of technical resources probably shouldn’t be making movies at all…

Anke Lanzon – At Times it Seems that I Awake

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At Times it Seems that I Awake (2003, 116.9, 8:55)

A philosophizing bulldog reflects about the
senselessness of his dog

Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow

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James Houston – Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow (2008, 12.6MB, 3:21)

Video for Official Secrets Act, made by James Houston.

Jonathan Schipper – Opposition

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Opposition (2005, 4.5MB, 1 min.)

Interactive kinetic sculpture from Jonathan Schipper performed at Pierogi gallery in 2005.
“Two participants are taken from the audience and buckled into the saddles on either
end of the machine. The participants are then lifted into the air. Both participants are provided
hand controllers that allow them to control the movement of the saddles, which are on
pneumatically powered gimbals, and the central rotation of the machine. Some movements
are shared and some affect only one or the other of the two participants. The function of each
input button on the controllers is changed by a computer on a regular basis so that the
participants can not gain full control of the machine. A rock and roll band is playing electric
instruments near by. The amplification for the band is turned on by the machine while the
machine is in the air. The band members (Outside Man) wear helmets that isolate the band,
who can not hear anything other than their own sounds. After a few minutes the participants
are brought back to the ground and released from the machine. The band is turned off and
the machine is ready for the next cycle.”

The Perfect Song

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Thunderant – The Perfect Song (2008, 21.6MB, 3:42)

Clever piece from Thunderant, which is primarily Carrie
Brownstein and Fred Armisen.
Hilarious and sometimes very odd, I’m so into this duo,
if only because I love what they’re doing in theory.
More folks should get together and make comedic
goodness in their free time.
Or sing weird answering machine songs. Whatever.

A holiday wish from Carl Weaver

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A holiday wish – Carl Weaver (2005, 2.3MB, 0:43)

Carl Weaver is a renaissance man – photographer,
writer, doer of many things. He also has a dry humor
and delivery most of us would kill for. In 2005, he
called to wish his friend Dwayne a merry Christmas.
We similarly extend holiday greetings and well wishes
to you, from everyone here at DVblog.

Mr. Nom Nom

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Katrine Emme Thielkes – Sweet Christmas #19 (2008, 1.8MB, 0:31)

The nineteenth in the Sweet Christmas series by Katrine Emme Thielkes.
Audio by Mikkel Westerkam.