Melody with slide show

This is a tranquil melody or that is how I envisioned it.

While brandishing a set of wind chimes and ringing them occassionally, I improvised this melody to a video of my cat. When I watched it afterwards, the tune didn't really fit the pictures. So I took some old stained glass-like early digital paintings of mine and made a slideshow of them. The slides overlap which makes new colors as one fades into a another. The last slide is a low res pic of a painting of mine. Hope you like it.

Ambient Music Meditations: Water Callings

Here is a brand new ambient music video, cooked just this morning. Click on the photo to watch it on my YouTube channel. I have a feeling this is one of those things you'll either love or hate.

The basic singing track was recorded in Garageband. The track was duplicated and altered over and over both in that program and in iMovie. I kind of like the wavy plaintive effect... It vaguely reminds me of birds or whales calling to each other...

The video is of the stream at the entrance to the Stamford Nature Center.

iPhone App Art with a homecooked sound track

Yes, is true that I like to fiddle around with materials and with technology. This is a video slide show of art made on an iPhone. Click on the photo to watch the video.

ARTWORK: The slides were created in SpinArt a $1.99 cent IPhone app.
MUSIC: The sound track is made in three distinct tracks each recorded driectly into iMoive HD (the old iMovie) For one track I used "mouth percussion" on another I smacked the TV remote against a lamp, on a third I improvised a tune (me singing). Then I manipulated each track using IMovie's audio editor applying pitch changes, delay and reverb i varying proportions and doing a little graphic equalization until the three tracks together had a sound I liked. It's short so give a little listen....  I kind of like the effect even though it's different from both my acoustic songs and from the classical music I used to do.

-- Mar Walker

Crazy art & a Sound Collage

This video is comprised of small pictures I created in SpinArt a $1.99 iPhone App.  It's meant to make more cirucular pictures (which I have al lot of) but is also useful for other oddities. I like it because it has a certain splashy messy feel as a medium. Things don't go on neatly and unexpected things happen.

The soundscape has a tapping track, a singing track and a Yamaha Keyboard track, there is a short paper crunching track. THe tracks were cooked in various ways in the iMove HD audio editor, and the keyboard track was send over to garageband where a double filter effect was applied.

Just as an addendum - this week's page in Bent Pin is titled "• retest daily" and the two items make you wonder who is being tested daily - the students or the teachers.....

Sick of Politics for now - how about a brief cat lullaby?

]This is Miet kitty, filmed with a macbook. I sang a little tune and another then dragged them together and applied the delay effect.