Flags of Convenience
New short video piece just completed tonight. Its a collaboration with John Cheeseman who wrote a short text based around the title Flags of Convenience that I’d had laying around for a while. I used the text as a stimulus for some imagery and another text I wrote to animate in counterpoint to the spoken text from John. I recorded John & Jes Tyrrell reading his text over the phone and then spent an inordinately long time composing some sound to underpin an edit of the voice text. The sound didn’t fall into place for me until I used it as material for a performance at the launch of an issue of Runway magazine where somewhere in the live mix I worked out how to deal with the unruly textures. You can download a 1280 x 720 mpeg4 version of it here (just right click and save as), its 150mb. Or see a low res streaming version below.
Wonderful!!