unsolicited collaboration w/ jules laplace and one of chris shier's infernal HTML5 contraptions
December 2013
Mermaid Intern
Recommended: "Mermaid Intern," a video short by Julio Torres and Lena Einbinder [YouTube]
This deadpan comedy, floating between conventional SNL-type skit and performance art, explores the plight of the creative soul in the modern office environment. Einbinder's earnest fin-footed Seapunk finds herself "trapped in a world she never made," as Steve Gerber once wrote about Howard the Duck.
spherecursor '13
more gifmelter / gif recorder experimenting re: circulation and dispersion (that last in a disingenuous bid for new media understanding)
"Two Rhythms"
"Two Rhythms" [mp3 removed -- tune is now on Bandcamp]
This started out as two different beats, each in its own section, made using a delay that Native Instruments no longer offers (Spektral Delay), ported in from an older PC in real time as an external hardware effect (note: about 150 ms of latency).
Then I cut it into loops, moved it to the Octatrack, and added older (Reaktor Titan) synth riffs sliced into new patterns. Went a little overboard with the "loop" function where a single note repeats in a stutter but have never done anything quite like this, ultimately.
motivator pog remix
my digital pog gif gesturized and melted in gifmelter, recorded in gif recorder (see previous post for particulars), optimized in OIE and secret windows-based software