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Re: Meditation in Blue -- new piece on You Tube
Very trippy and quite a different experience in silence.
On Aug 19, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> "Meditation on Blue" (http://youtu.be/bmGZ5vWu8HE) is the simplest piece
> I have ever posted. One sequence, one filter, no music, and (to me, at
> least) a certain magic. It is one of those happy accidents that can
> bless the artist who is attentive enough to notice them. I was working
> on some material to use in my live mixing performances, and had made a
> six minute sequence of symmetrized video from two shots of trees over
> and reflected in water.
>
> I often take these sequences make make variants of them for mixing by
> applying different filters to the entire sequence, and putting the
> versions that I like on the same DVD as the original for use in
> performance. When I do this, I am not attempting to make finished pieces.
>
> In this case, one of the sequences particularly caught my eye. I looked
> closely at it, and decided that it was a complete piece in its own right
> and didn't even need a soundtrack.
>
> You can watch it in silence or with any music that is expansive and not
> aggressive -- such as Indian Classical Music, Bach, or any kind of
> (relatively quiet) improvised music. Enjoy, and please let me know what
> you think of the pieces.
>
>
> BTW Some of my photography can be viewed at
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/collections/72157603627170351/
> --
> " Practice makes perfect, imperfect is better." -- Paul Bley
>
> Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D.
> Video Producer Image Processing Specialist
> Video for your HEAD! Boris FX
> http://www.foryourhead.com http://www.borisfx.com
>
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch
http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
edurbrow@sea.plala.or.jp