A Canvas of Sound: Scene.
A scene from my film "A Canvas of Sound"
Kris Rutherford and I recently applied for a grant with the Austin Film Society with our film," A Canvas of Sound." We didn't get the grant, or any grant for that matter. It, of course was disappointing and mostly because I am a perfectionist as an artist. The experience was incredible though, the process, breaking down all of my ideas, scenes, questions etc and creating my first film treatment. We are still in the process of creating the film as we have run out of funding and have been putting our own money into the project. I wanted to share the clip that we used in our entry.
We chose a clip from the "Chapter 1: What is Sound?" section of the film. This clip will be following our opening sequence and will begin with a narration of prose over an artist painting in a studio. The opening sequence (artist in studio) will fade out to Chapter 1 (selected scene). This chapter is the introduction to the characters, as they define sound in their own personal definitions while showing each of them in their musical element. You will also get a feel for the style of the camera work across the breadth of the film, using landscapes of musical visuals with sound and words.
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If My Body Were Paper and Bones
My imagination took hold of my senses and as I felt the paper I began to wonder about our bodies, our lives here. We are but flesh and bones. Our bodies are broken, torn, weathered and fleeting. I imagined I was paper, a scultpure of paper and bones.
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Today I started a new body of work that is titled "If my body were paper and bones", all of the pieces will be painted on paper. Before I began this new journey I created a playlist consisting of Max Richter, The Black Atlantic, The Helio Sequence, Peter Broedrick, Birdy, TV on The Radio, The Lighthouse and the Whaler, M83 and Sigur Ros to bring my ears to ease with the world.
I began to tape paper to a piece of plywood to create a flat surface so the paper doesn't warp to bad and to create edges or a frame to the piece. My head started to choose an ocean of color for my brushes, knives and fingers Peter Brodericks "I Am Piano" began to fill my studio (from the It's Starts Here album) and I was immediatly wisked away to someplace else. My imagination took hold of my senses and as I felt the paper I began to wonder about our bodies, our lives here on this earth.
We are merely flesh and bone. Our bodies are broken, torn, weathered and fleeting. My mind was picturing self as paper, a scultpure of paper and bones. As Peter Broderick sang "I am Piano", I played a flim in my head, (transformation):
...(as film flickers apear on the mental screen) my body is now paper, a figure mashed together with pulp that has dried over time, easy to tear, bending when wet, unrecovering from fold. I moved with the sound and was pressured by the wind, soft and peeling at the edges. Movement was difficult yet flawless, as momentum set in wrinkles from folds began to manifest across this figure, clean yet stained. A journal written, yet erased, scratched out, but pages adding by the minute.
(Back to now)
If we were paper and bone could we tear off a sheet when we needed to start over, or would we continue to try and create something beautiful out of the mess?
This is my mind. This is my world.
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Bon Iver, David Ramirez, Penny & Sparrow, Nico Stai and Seryn.
A little Bon Iver in the studio, David Ramirez in a confessional, Seryn in black and white and some other artists for your eyes and ears!
I wanted to share some music and video of a few artists who are inspiring my work in the last few months. A few are friends, all are peers and some I hope to interview or meet down the road for my Hypervocal column "Engaging Culture". I have watched each of these videos multiple times in the last few weeks throughout my day of creating all sorts of random things. So, I hope that you enjoy them in your visual modus operandi. If you are in Austin for SXSW on March 9th, I would like to invite you out to our show. The poster is below and Seryn, the last video on this short list is headlining. Hope you will visit our little town and have a pint on me! Bon Iver at AIR Studios.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho]
David Ramirez: Stick Around
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV0Vi658byo]
Penny and Sparrow: Creature
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xT9ekWgk4]
Nico Stai: The Skies Over Your Head
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRRJ9pfJxU]
Seryn [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/29339458 w=620&h=348]
Todays Playlist with videe's...Bjork, Pixies, Low, Johanna Newsom..etc...
A lot of great music on today's playlist with some youtube videos.
Here is my non-headphone, maybe some headphones playlist for the day or maybe week, we shall see how my mood or the weather changes. The Autumns- The Angel Pool
Bauhaus- In The Flat Field
Bjork- Homogenic [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSohz7B0Zo]
The Blow- Paper Television
Brad- Interiors
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvdqE2WQGo&feature=related]
Brian Eno- Another Day on Earth
Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiSBAykx9vA]
Chris Ganeau- Music for Tourists
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyG6G67LvZ4]
Gravenhurst- Flashlight Sessions
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvUTrrqBDY]
Johanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mendor, YS
Low- The Great Destroyer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3MGbNE1WA]
The Magnetic Fields- Distortion
Piano Magic- Part-Monster
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAx1pkMigQ]
Pixies-Doolittle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRrTl2J2w8]
Portishead- Dummy
The Rosebuds- Night of the Furies
Tall Dwarfs- Fork Songs
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfJc0Une5g]
The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters