Here’s a new music video from bright stem; but unlike previous videos both the music and visuals have been developed in unison by myself.
I’ve been wanting to develop a creative process which explored the visual and audio as one creative entity for some time but have never felt my self an adequate musician (whatever that means) to do so. But recently I made the leap into the audio world and this is the first product of that leap. I wanted to explore the relationship between the audio and visual at there most basic level. To do this I decided to strip things back to there basics which meant a simple frantic fast passed audio track which would abruptly stop and start, me dancing to the track in front of a camera and some basic yellow/white animations.
But as well as this rather scientific exploration the video also has also a more personal edge. A good friend Conor Shaw or C-Dog to his friends died recently, he featured quite prominently in two previous Not Squares music videos I made Asylum and Release the Bees. We would both be at our happiest whilst erratically throwing our limbs around whilst listening to music. He was also some one who I would talk through possible future projects and who always encouraged me to get them made. So this video seems a fitting tribute to him.
Andrew
Went to see Miro exhibition at tate modern yesterday abseloutly amazing. Best thing I’ve seen since Kandinsky exhaibition (also at tate modern) which must have been around 2007 or earlier. I got to see a number of his earlier works which had some how escaped me previously. the picture above ‘la terre labouree’ was one of these early pieces of work. You can see his inquisitiveness with the world about him but also how hes beginning to play with that world. So much fun and playfullness! I skipt by with my note pad busily sketching from one picture to another with a real sence of joy. Hopefully I’ll try and capture some of this joy in my future projects! Tis the joy which first made me pick up a pencil and make scribbles!
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/joanmiro/default.shtm
3D Printing (The Real And The Virtual)
I’ve been seeing more and more clips recently showing the advances in 3d printing and its new applications within science health care and manufacturing. One of the most incredible things I’ve seen is this talk by Anthony Atala on TED in which a new replacement human kidney is printed. I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind. I kept asking myself why? Why is this so intriguing, amazing even mind melding?? Am I just amazed in the technical advances ‘wow look at what we are able to achieve!’ No its more fundamental than that. I find myself thinking back to my studies when I wrote about Kandinsky, Post Modernism and the real and the abstract/virtual.
That line we hold so dear between the real and the virtual. It continues to evaporate piece by piece as we become more an more adapt at altering changing our environment in ever more sophisticated ways.
When one thinks of ones self ‘the indavidual’ one thinks of ones body ‘ones body is ones self’. But all these parts/organs will soon be replaceable they are no different from mechanical parts in a car or the inerds of a computer. Complex parts yes but is the internet not complex? And complexity isn’t enough anyway i.e. humanity = complexity is a very unsatisfactory equation, some times what makes us human can be incredibly simple. So ones left asking what is humanity if not physical? Is it the manipulation of data/the things we perceive deciphered through a certain code/our DNA?
If so how does the virtual and real becoming ever more intertwined effect us? You could take the point of view that we are loosing our humanity messing around in areas we should not. You might have all sorts of dystopian science fiction films swirling around your head where one is unable to separate the dream from reality where we lose some basic understanding of what it is to be human.
But thats not what I see I think the line between the real and the virtual has always been frankly ludicrous it is the very fact that we alter our world and then in turn our world alters us which defines us as humans. What is clear is that what we create is up to us and therefore we need to focus and also broaden our vision of what we want to create. That is why these video clips have such an effect on me they challenge us, they say come on you need to try harder, the world is moving at an unprecedented speed (particularly in terms of technology) and we need to keep up with it. We need to look again at what it is where doing and why it is where doing it.
Source: ted.com
