Mutual Daughter (Mutual Core remix)
The other week I took part in a contest on Beatport and made a remix of "Mutual Core" by Björk. Here's the resulting mix.
What do you mean you can't dance to it?
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
week 8
Morning dew / Afterglow
A montage of sunrises and dew in late july, combined with a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, read in original spanish by Noel Svetec. The music is a collage combining excerpts form violin improvisations by Sanna Natunen and piano improvisations by yours truly.
Originally I imagined this piece as just a collection of images capturing the dew and the beautiful light before and after the sunrise using time-lapse techniques. For soundtrack I though I'd just use recordings of natural ambience from the locations and go with a very simple and minimalist approach. But while editing the images seemed to scream for something more to accompany them. At the I had been reading a collection of poems by the Argentinian master Borges, and this one poem in particular had stuck in my mind. So I decided to try it out to see how it changes the associations and the atmosphere of the images. Then I took a piece of a piano improvisation from I recording I had made on location during a brake while shooting another short film and combined that with snippets of violin improvisations gratuously played by Sanna Natunen. With this triangle of sound elements the piece turned out to be much more like a music video, or film-poem, or something. This I had not imagined while I started filming, but it came out as a delightful surprise for me. Though I worry that the soundtrack is almost to crowded now (and I'd love to record my piano again, better & without the sound of the clicking fingernails).
Due to software issues, some of the material on this video is of inferior quality. Also a major part of the material I shot was left unused for this version. I plan revisit this piece again in the near future and to render some of the time-lapse sequences again with better quality.
A montage of sunrises and dew in late july, combined with a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, read in original spanish by Noel Svetec. The music is a collage combining excerpts form violin improvisations by Sanna Natunen and piano improvisations by yours truly.
Originally I imagined this piece as just a collection of images capturing the dew and the beautiful light before and after the sunrise using time-lapse techniques. For soundtrack I though I'd just use recordings of natural ambience from the locations and go with a very simple and minimalist approach. But while editing the images seemed to scream for something more to accompany them. At the I had been reading a collection of poems by the Argentinian master Borges, and this one poem in particular had stuck in my mind. So I decided to try it out to see how it changes the associations and the atmosphere of the images. Then I took a piece of a piano improvisation from I recording I had made on location during a brake while shooting another short film and combined that with snippets of violin improvisations gratuously played by Sanna Natunen. With this triangle of sound elements the piece turned out to be much more like a music video, or film-poem, or something. This I had not imagined while I started filming, but it came out as a delightful surprise for me. Though I worry that the soundtrack is almost to crowded now (and I'd love to record my piano again, better & without the sound of the clicking fingernails).
Due to software issues, some of the material on this video is of inferior quality. Also a major part of the material I shot was left unused for this version. I plan revisit this piece again in the near future and to render some of the time-lapse sequences again with better quality.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
morning dew
Midsummer in Finland is rather magical time, to say the least. The days are long and the night is really just a few hours of gloom instead of proper darkness. And then the sun comes up again.
As most people, I imagine, I have always been attracted by the special light of the time of sunrises and sunsets. The distant glow after sundown and the magic hour just before the sun appears from the horizon have a special warmth and softness to them.
During the past few weeks I've been getting up early, or rather staying up late, to shoot sunrises and the light just before and after it. My initial focus was to make a Joris Ivens type of piece about the morning dew, but I found that catching a common natural phenomena like this is sometimes more challenging than one would presume. Actually for the dew to happen properly, I have learned, it takes certaing kinds of conditions, namely cool nights and no or little wind (and preferrably clear skies to catch the amazing light). With the summer in Finland being extremely cloudy and rainy, many mornings I've found my mission obstructed or handicapped by adverse contitions.
Anyway, I do have plenty of interesting material and soon I'l be uloading a new piece.
And perhaps I will keep shooting more sunrises, the romantic fool I am, and upload another film with more focus on the actual dew.
As most people, I imagine, I have always been attracted by the special light of the time of sunrises and sunsets. The distant glow after sundown and the magic hour just before the sun appears from the horizon have a special warmth and softness to them.
During the past few weeks I've been getting up early, or rather staying up late, to shoot sunrises and the light just before and after it. My initial focus was to make a Joris Ivens type of piece about the morning dew, but I found that catching a common natural phenomena like this is sometimes more challenging than one would presume. Actually for the dew to happen properly, I have learned, it takes certaing kinds of conditions, namely cool nights and no or little wind (and preferrably clear skies to catch the amazing light). With the summer in Finland being extremely cloudy and rainy, many mornings I've found my mission obstructed or handicapped by adverse contitions.
Anyway, I do have plenty of interesting material and soon I'l be uloading a new piece.
And perhaps I will keep shooting more sunrises, the romantic fool I am, and upload another film with more focus on the actual dew.
Friday, August 3, 2012
week 7
Textures of summertime Finland combined with a little piano improv I recorded while taking a brake on a location of another shoot.
The music was recorded with a phone and it's very raw. I've been very shy about using my own improvisations because, well, it's an improvisation and as it's composed at the same time it's performed, there are always unwanted notes. I'm trying to overcome my self-criticism though - after all that's the whole point of this project.
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