Moving images live at the intersection of several of the disciplines which interest me. Photography gains duration, music acquires a visual component, and an idea can develop through editing, animation, and repetition. I am drawn to the way these elements speak to and change one another, and to the unexpected results that can appear when sound or software is allowed to shape an image directly.
Music video for "Mammoth" by Flora Hibberd.
I worked with Flora Hibberd to create the storyboard and direction for the video and then filmed, edited, and color-graded the video.
A music video for my song "I Have Never Seen Volcanoes".
The idea was fairly simple: to intercut actual footage of volcanoes with the creation of a paper mache volcano. The creation of the paper mache volcano was shot as a time-lapse, then the volcano was filmed with smoke-bomb fireworks, and lastly with baking soda and vinegar.
A test made while brainstorming ideas for a music video to my song "The Waters Below".
Using Andrew Benson's Jitter recipe 06: Dancing Sprites and isolated vocals from a demo, I modulated the clouds in a photo of Mont Veyrier by the amplitude of the vocals, then modulated the result by the whole track.
The resulting music video from the above test.
The footage, meant to be my version of the danse macabre, was filmed on a warm August evening in 2017 in a small flat off Roseneath Terrace by Helin Raudsepp and Jarvis Gray. I added the glitch effects with programming made in Jitter.
A related experiment and a direct continuation of the first test.
I cut a photograph of the Columbia River Gorge into components, filled in the background with Photoshop's content-aware fill, and attached the layers to isolated instruments from the song's stems. I then used the same Jitter patch to glitch the layers before rebuilding the composition in After Effects.