compositions
Art Fest
Creation Period:
June 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Sound Collage
Notes:
This was one of the original kaleidoscopic visuals created on June 4, 2006. The subject was the crowd during the 2004 Highland Square "Art In The Square" festival, where I had a table set-up with some pieces I made. The footage was a static shot while my camera set on the table top.
Clouds
Creation Period:
June 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This was one of the original kaleidoscopic visuals created on June 4, 2006. The subject was shot while I lay on my back in Schneider Park, Akron, Ohio, after having tried flying a few kites that I'd made.
Fire and Water
Creation Period:
June 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This was one of the original kaleidoscopic visuals created on June 4, 2006. The subject was a campfire on the shore of Middle Bass Island, as well as the reflection of the moon off the lake.
Geometry Wars
Creation Period:
June 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Sound Collage
Notes:
This was one of the original kaleidoscopic visuals created in June 2006. The subject of the piece is an XBOX 360 Arcade game titled "Geometry Wars" which I shot while a friend played it on his large, Sony DLP HDTV, which allowed me to capture footage without issues an interlaced subject would have created.
Intersection
Creation Period:
Summer 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This was the inaugural kaleidoscopic composition and it was not planned. At the time, I was fascinated by the looks on people's faces as they turned past me at an intersection. They were of an instant and seemed pure and honest to me. I went-out that day with my camera set-up on a tripod in my car's passenger side seat, filming the cars as they passed whenever I was the first car at a red light.
Depending on how you look at it... I'd say fortunately I wasn't able to capture the footage I was looking for, and to salvage the day I ended-up assembling this first kaleidoscopic composition.
The final composition impressed me so much, I instantly saw it as only the first in a large collection of pieces that used everyday footage to create spectacular imagery. However, I was concerned that I was too close to the concept. Observing it objectively, it could be seen as something a readymade digital video filter could produce.
Because the pieces took so long to produce, due to the technology I was using at the time, and the fact that they might not be appreciated the way I thought they should, I essentially gave-up on the project for the next year and a half.
Wake
Creation Period:
June 2006
Collection:
Volume 1: Archetypes
Audio Type:
Sound Collage
Notes:
This was one of the original kaleidoscopic visuals created in June 2006. The subject was the wake off the back of Miller's Ferry as it returned me to the mainland from Middle Bass Island in Lake Erie.
Autumn
Creation Period:
Fall 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Music
Spring
Creation Period:
Spring 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Music
Summer (Fallen)
Creation Period:
Summer 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
Early on a Sunday morning in late June 2008, I woke-up to find that a large bush had magically grown overnite outside my kitchen window. At least, that's what it looked like. Actually, it was a large piece of the tree that stood in-between my house and my neighbor's house that had fallen during the previous night's storm. As I documented the event, I captured a bit of footage for a potential composition. I shot footage using both my SD and HDV cameras, but the HDV did such a better job of capturing the vivid colors a detail of the leaves and trunk that I decided to down-convert the HDV footage to SD for this piece.
Winter
Creation Period:
Fall 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Music
Winter Trees 01
Creation Period:
Winter 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Winter Trees 02
Creation Period:
Winter 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Sound Collage
Winter Trees 03
Creation Period:
Winter 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Winter Trees 04
Creation Period:
Winter 2008
Collection:
Volume 2: Trees
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Confession Box (Collapsing)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Confession Box (Expanding)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Marbles
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Silhouette Flower Hands
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Confession Box (HD Demo)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
The music used for this demo was originally used as a menu background for a previous DVD project titled "++2004++".
Confession Box (SD Demo)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Marbles (HD Demo)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Music
Marbles (SD Demo A)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Marbles (SD Demo B)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Silhouette Flower Hands (Demo)
Creation Period:
Winter 2009
Collection:
Volume 3: Lightbox
Audio Type:
Ambient Sound
Desktop (Composite)
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This composition combines Desktop (Session A) and Desktop (Session B). The primary soundtrack ("Copper Mine") was inspired by the opening of Richard Wagner's opera "Das Rheingold" as it was what I was listening to when I captured the footage. It fit perfectly, so I created something similar.
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Copper Mine
2) Whistle
3) Akai Feedback
4) Infinity Scape Story A
5) Epitaph Variant
6) Scattered Voice
Desktop (Session A)
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Akai Feedback
2) Copper Mine
3) Whistle
4) Epitaph Variant
5) Scattered Voice
6) Infinity Scape Story A
Desktop (Session B)
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Whistle
2) Akai Feedback
3) Copper Mine
4) Scattered Voice
5) Infinity Scape Story A
6) Epitaph Variant
LCD
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This is one of my favorite compositions. It reminds me of what I've seen from The Joshua Light Show that performed at the Fillmore East in the late '60s and '70s.
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Epitaph
2) Capitulate
3) Infinity Scape B
4) Infinity Scape C
Mirror
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
This is my favorite composition to date. No post-production manipulation or tweaking was needed. The light was sculpted during the shoot. The soundtrack (easily the most accessible one from the Infinity collection) also marks the emergence of some newly developed audio techniques that will be used in future pieces. Also, while I'm not a fan of being in front of the camera, it was unavoidable in this situation, and I'm actually pleased with the results.
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Infinity Mirror
2) Infinity Scape B
3) Ininity Scape E
4) Epitaph
To name drop a bit, I've called this my "Brakhage Moment" because the fleeting moments where I appear in the frame remind me of pieces from him. Or, maybe I'm just a huge Stan Brakhage mark and think if I mention him in the same breath as myself that something will rub-off?!?
LCD (SD Demo A)
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
The first of the two original SD demos.
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Infinity Scape Story B
2) Keyboard
3) Epitaph
4) Capitulate
LCD (SD Demo B)
Creation Period:
Spring 2009
Collection:
Volume 4: Infinity
Audio Type:
Music
Notes:
The second of the two original SD demos.
DVD Audio Layers:
1) Infinity Scape Story A
2) Epitaph
3) Capitulate
4) Keyboard