Lucidbeaming

A pianist named Ting Luo saw my work at a show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Modern Art and reached out for some collaboration. She founded an organization call New Arts Collaboration and wanted to know if I wanted to contribute some video. Brett Austin composed the music, titled How Deep is the Valley, and I made a custom video piece for it. She played the piece live a few months later in San Francisco.

Supercuts were a novelty in the mid-2000s that were seen on talk shows and such, as a joke. It’s the kind of thing where you can take a politician’s speech and make him/her say whatever you want by rearranging the parts where they say specific words. There are modern tools that make this process simple. Below that clip is a search of a bunch of 70s employee training films for the word “blue”. Another is a stretched supercut of the public domain Orson Welles movie The Stranger. I searched for for sounds that were similar to speech but not actual words or language.

These long form music videos were made for Spanner. They were constructed with original footage, FFMPEG waveform and vectorscope output, and many layers of effects done manually in Final Cut Pro.

These short form videos are ~1 minute each, with original audio. They were made with imagery and footage I shot on my phone and then edited, transformed, and layered at a later date. The audio tracks come from a combination of sources, including field recordings, songs made with iOS apps, and music I commercially released on albums. All of the video was generated with a custom workflow on an iPhone using LumaFusion, Synthscaper, Fieldscaper, Defekt, Glitches, Fragment, Kino Glitch, 8mm, Hyperspektiv, Plotagraph, and Virtual ANS. Final processing was done with FFMPEG for distribution.