This film was produced with Project [BLANK] and was the recipient of the Innovation Prize in Catapult Opera’s ACCELERATE competition, in which I contributed audio recording, mixing, and video editing.
It is a performance of a scene from HANJO by Toshio Hosokawa, with shadow puppetry by Tania Yager, piano and orchestration by Brendan Nguyen, sung by baritone Jonathan Nussman and mezzo-soprano Leslie Ann Leytham.
Everything gets old, breaks down and eventually dies, and technological decay mirrors its biological counterpart. I find various types of electric lights to be especially fascinating as they start to wink out and fade. This video is a collage of cell phone recordings of failing lights in public places. Their light affects the sound of various recordings of large electric power transformers (another fascination), and are accompanied by an old upright piano.
https://vimeo.com/408734850
Performance of Blackbox Loops at the Digital Arts Research Center, Santa Cruz, CA 2010. Soundscapes produced by feedback from obsolete digital audio effects processors that affect the dimensionality of found video source material.
Falling Together uses discarded or erroneous audio and recordings of broken instruments laid out on a digital timeline and allowed to “fall together” to create their own collective voice. A generative computer environment produced abstract images based on digital data from the files and the sound frequencies.
https://vimeo.com/33192441
This piece uses an algorithmic procedure along with realtime gestures to create a video and soundscape using minuscule bits of extremely basic sound and video synthesis. Created with Max/MSP/Jitter. Originally performed in 2009 at the Roy O. Disney auditorium at the California Institute for the Arts.