Shattered Shards– the freeform, visual collab curated by wayfaring Brooklyn souls Matthew Caron and Rebecca Gaffney– is less of a directorial excursion than a freeform video jam session. No more clearly is this seen in their spastic, claustrophobic visuals for Brooklyn’s PVRE MATRIX (a.k.a. Daniel Moore). Taken from a set at La Sala, the video is built upon on a frenetic display of glitched video feedback, whip pans around the venue, and mirrored, kaleidoscopic original footage that’s all attack and no release, a sound match for PM’s tightly coiled, tension-riddled version of industrial music. – AD HOC
Long Distance Poison performed Signals To A Habitable Zone on October 12th and 13th, 2012 at The Autumn Bowl as part of Whispers: A Sound + Art Series. It was our first performance as a group in conjunction with an arts festival. Whispers: A Sound + Art Series presented a weekend of sound-based and sound-inspired art performance, establishing The Autumn Bowl as a new site for innovative musical and visual experiences. Presented by Nuit Blanche NY, The Autumn Bowl lasted through the month of October and featured artists working with light, sound, and projection and offer a range of events in conjunction with co-presenting cultural organizations within a 360-degree video projection and sound environment.
I collaborated with my friend Eric Drasin on video design and VJ duties for the Four Stories Launch Party at the W New York Downtown on August 9th, 2012
The scene on the red carpet of W New York – Downtown was electric Thursday night as Roman Coppola, The Directors Bureau, W Hotels, and Intel kicked off Four Stories, a short film series and competition. The party inside the hotel was even livelier than the scene on the street. DJ sets by Michaelangelo L’Acqua, W Hotels global music director, Theophilus London and DJ EIKO from Tokyo rocked the crowd. Michael Pitt and James Ransone — who are members of the competition’s judging panel — joined about 200 cinema-loving revelers to celebrate the opening of Four Stories. Roman even delivered a toast to the spirit of creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
W New York Downtown’s living room was decked out with large-scale movie posters, cinematic projections and an interactive display. Intel-inspired Ultrabooks™ powered cutting edge animated GIF booths that virtually transported guests to four iconic W Hotels destinations across the globe. Roman and his production company, The Directors Bureau, will produce four short films at W Hotels in Doha, Mexico City, The Maldives, and Washington DC.
Read more about the Four Stories Launch Party at Intel
Shattered Shards (Matthew Caron and Rebecca Gaffney) performed live visuals at La Sala on March 17th 2012 for a show organized by Avant Ghetto NYC, featuring Wretched Worst, Form A Log, Opponents and High School Confidential (Mr. Matthews of Telecult Powers).
I performed live visuals in collaboration with Eric Drasin on December 16th, 2011 at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, presented by Brooklyn Vegan. Our pal Zephyr Prusinski operated the camera while Eric and I jammed on visuals. Later, I combined a recording of our output along with audio from the soundboard to create this instant music video of Big Troubles performing “Make It Work”.
Read about the Brooklyn Night Bazaar and see some pictures of our visuals at Brooklyn Vegan
I performed live visuals in collaboration with Eric Drasin on December 16th, 2011 at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, presented by Brooklyn Vegan. Our pal Zephyr Prusinski operated the camera while Eric and I jammed on visuals. Later, I combined a recording of our output along with audio from the soundboard to create this instant music video of Caged Animals performing “Girls On Medication”.
Read about the Brooklyn Night Bazaar and see some pictures of our visuals at Brooklyn Vegan
Noisey wrote about Long Distance Poison and ran a photo of mine along with this video of my very first performance with Long Distance Poison at The School House.
“Though a lot of folks might consider drone and sound art to be the least musical music you could make, I often find that freaky experimental improvisers are the ones most knowledgeable and wide-ranging about all kinds of pop. It’s like they pushed so far into music nerddom that they popped out on the other side of the wormhole and then channel sounds from a musical bizarroverse.” – Nat Roe, Noisey
I performed live video visuals for a performance by Ana Lola Roman on Episode Five of E.S.P. TV on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, which aired on Tuesday, July 26th at 10:30pm on Channel 67 in the borough of Manhattan. This episode also featured Forma, Aaron Nemec, Derek Larson and Scott Kiernan.
