New live A/V mix recorded on May 12, 2017

A short piece edited down from a 3-hour live remix session of several episodes of the Twilight Zone television series in which out of context emotional gestures heighten the surreal sense of wonder and confusion that was the show’s hallmark back in the day.  Music:  My Funky Bro by Ethnomite Pux

Check out the standard 2D version here: https://vimeo.com/209402321

I’m very pleased to present the first in a series of live abstract mixes that I recorded in collaboration with a group of local DJs as part of Whirly Wednesdays, a flow artist rehearsal group that is also generous enough to allow musicians and other artists to come in and do their thing.  I used to VJ for them fairly regularly when they were meeting at the Flying Squirrel Community Center here in Rochester, NY  during the winter of 2013/14 and thought it might be fun to try it again this past week.  Hopefully if I have the time and bandwidth perhaps I can try to make it a regular thing again 😉

Unedited excerpt from a live remix of a VHS copy of Donnie Darko with an episode of the CBS news magazine show “48 Hours” about a love triangle murder captured via an over the air receiver during a DJ show at Montage Music Hall on April 2, 2016. Music: Suave – Living Receiver (Thromb remix)

Watch the standard 2D version here: vimeo.com/206645944

A little bit of fun running a VHS copy of Star Trek: Genereations through a Tachyons+ Psychenizer and then back through Paracosm’s Lumen video synthesizer application.

Hi everyone, as some of you know awhile back I was invited to beta test Vimeo’s new 360 VR playback capabilities and today they have finally made the feature public. Over the years I have always preferred Vimeo over other platforms both for it’s playback quality and other features that have proven more accommodating to my technically and aesthetically unusual work so I’m extremely excited that they are now offering this capability.

A short abstract piece comprised of original abstract sequences and remixes produced live during RIPROC’s monthly DJ show at the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY on August 26th, 2016.  Music by Vhos7 & Ceiva.

A surreal trip down memory lane in tribute to Timothy Leary and his signature libation. Music was produced by MediaThief during an online Facebook live session with the subsequent recording used as the basis for the video mix performed by Mike Celona live in the studio a few days later.

Music:  MediaThief – https://soundcloud.com/mediathief

Introducing the first in what will be an ongoing series of audio/visual mixes in which I handle both halves of the sensory equation myself.  This past summer I felt that the time was right for me to start learning how to DJ as a way  of better coupling my live video art with the kinds of sounds that move me and in my opinion, best suit the images.   While some of you might recall my posting a couple of relatively low-key preliminary attempts at this over the past few months, I felt that this piece was the first one in which my audio mixing had approached some degree of proficiency, which is why I’m letting it kick off the Cinematheque series.  My goal is to eventually be able to juggle both audio and visual mixing simultaneously live and if this piece is any indication I look forward to a fun journey ahead!