Ornaments 1 (performed by Continuum Ensemble)
À La… (performed by Thin Edge Music Ensemble)
Ornaments 2 (performed by Critical Band Too)
Soundtrack for The Seeds (film by Sean Cisterna)
Soundtrack for Convergence (film by Sam Kates)
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Podcast Music Sampler (custom music available)
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Nicole Marchesseau is a founding member of sound braid, an exploration of collaborative listening and sonic conversation. sound braid can be found at: https://www.soundbraid.org/
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Slowly returning this site to a creative repository (you know, hopefully)…
Poem
iridescent winged
black birds
in transfiguring shapes
verge upon soaring pines
their boisterous chatter
more raspy uproar
than murmuring
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Official Selections at the “Experimental Film Odyssey Festival” and “Film Boxe International Monthly Film Festival”
In 2020, the world shrank. Mundanity proliferated. Music was displaced by the sounds of everyday environments. Gazes fixed upon immediate surroundings. Fantastic voyages ceased. Expect for those of the Pandemic Spaceship.
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Now that this is all posted here, I feel that I can lay it to rest.
The process of posting this video reminds me of my old college radio program days. My program, called “In the Muse,” ran on Tuesdays in the summer at CFBU Brock U Radio in Saint Catharines. When an ear-worm would niggle its way into my brain, I used it as a thread for a show. It was as if playing it over the airwaves would somehow pour the sound out of my ears and into the universe. Or at least into the Student Building. Later that summer, my ear-worms reached the city proper when CFBU finally obtained their frequency license. My last show there was a tribute to William Burroughs who had passed away a week or two before the show aired. There’s nothing quite like gracing the city of Saint Catherine’s with:
T’ain’t no sin
To take off your skin
And dance around in your bones
Why the diversion from the video? Posting Adrian’s Apartment here is like sending it into the universe. It’s also like dancing around in my bones. It’s finished and we will never speak of it again.
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We’re almost done. I’m not all that keen on segments 3 and 4 and must admit that there is some teeth-gritting happening as I publish this. It’s one of those ‘hearing your own voice’ types of experiences, except here I am watching myself on my own doc, being filmed by my interviewee as he is talking (how did that reversal even happen?).
I’m posting this because it part of the process of posting the entire video. *It’s about the process, right?* About not focusing exclusively on the final product? That was, after all, part of the purpose of the doc to begin with. It’s not always a pretty sight.
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Part two of the VHS video from more than a decade ago. This segment, like part one, explores the process of figuring out several components of an installation that occurred at the AWOL Gallery in Toronto in 2001. For a better description see below for the blog entry for part one.
Tuna Mind Melt had a very mellow session on Friday. I don’t think I’ll be posting anything from that particular sitting but will give it a listen again and will pin it up here if there is anything worthwhile. Process is always interesting to me, but not always interesting to others (especially when the yield of the process is insignificant).
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Sameness, stillness, slow changes.
This digitized version turned up on one of Rich’s machines. I was sure all backup copies had been accidentally erased minus the original VHS version. This is old school videotape, edited using two VHS machines. More than a decade ago Gab helped to clean up the static which showed up with each crude edit before it was transferred to mini DV. It’s been the victim of numerous analog and digital transfers since.
Things I like: the CRT screen in the apartment, the rack of ancient electronic equipment, dangling wires in front of Adrian’s Japanese Super 8 film footage projected on his apartment wall, kimchi ramen, matzos. Kitschy random switching back and forth between positive and negative images, close-up of the kettle and the blue gas flame, “There’s a Jew in me that just won’t die.” Footage of a friend and me from a third of our lives ago. Glad that I can look back on those days and laugh with myself.
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The last in a series of three. Enjoy!
Up next? Not sure yet.
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