I edited this Noisey Meets feature about Dan Deacon’s recent performance at Celebrate Brooklyn, treating the audience as an instrument, his interactive smartphone app and Wham City Lights.
Noisey Meets Dan Deacon
August 27th, 2013Speedy Ortiz “Tiger Tank” Music Video
July 10th, 2013
“Tiger Tank” by Speedy Ortiz
2013 Carpark Records
Directed by Matthew Caron, shot by Destiny Mata and Matthew Caron, edited by D.V. Caputo
Judging from their debut album, Major Arcana, Massachusetts indie rockers Speedy Ortiz have their blend of ’90s-inspired alt-rock down pat. But as they prove with the video for lead single “Tiger Tank”, the foursome also have a keen grasp on their beloved era’s aesthetic/visual sensibilities. While they jam out in a grimy basement filled with shredded paper, complete with fish-eye lens and prerequisite effects, a couple of girls in lucha masks throw down for some good, not-so-clean amateur wrestling fun. In ’90s terms, this party is so kickin’, it makes House Party look like House Party 2. Grab a drink and join the festivities below. – Chris Coplan, Consequence Of Sound
Long Distance Poison – A Passage Above
June 11th, 2013
Long Distance Poison – A Passage Above from Matthew Caron on Vimeo.
Music: Long Distance Poison
Video: Matthew Caron and Rebecca Gaffney
Available as part of the Fin Records LP/DVD release Gliese Translations by Long Distance Poison
Buy Gliese Translations from Fin Records http://finrecords.com/store/gliese
Matthew Caron and Rebecca Gaffney’s collaborative video A Passage Above is a direct investigation into the inner workings of contemporary and antiquated technology. “A Passage Above” employs projection, lights, mirrors, and cameras to craft a feedback chasm representing a journey into the innerspace of the camcorder, the VCR, and the Edirol V-4 video mixer.
- From the catalog for Manifest Destiny, a public exhibition at Outlet Fine Art in Bushwick, Brooklyn
A Passage Above first appeared in the real world as part of Manifest Destiny at Outlet Fine Art on April 19, 2013. It premiered on the internet at Decoder Magazine on June 11, 2013.
Noisey: We Hung Out with Two Gallants at the San Francisco Jansport Bonfire Session
May 31st, 2013
I edited this feature on folk rock duo Two Gallants playing in their hometown of San Francisco and talking about the Bay Area music scene.
After Hours #1 – Marco Brambilla at the Roommate Grace Hotel
May 29th, 2013Materialization/De-materialization, by Marco Brambilla
a video projection on water
with a performance on the organ by Cammisa Buerhaus
Shot and Edited by: Matthew Caron
After Hours is a series of ephemeral installations and performances hidden amongst the Times Square district’s diverse venues, recorded for radio and video dissemination. Taking advantage of the twilight moment before midnight, and a surreal array of different settings nestled throughout the Times Square area, the Times Square Alliance and the Clocktower Gallery & ARTonAIR.org come together to offer tantalizing glimpses of these spaces as creative catalysts. Pairing musicians and artists with each of these unique contexts, the artists create work specifically designed to draw on the neighborhood’s history as a social and artistic melting pot. The fleeting nature of these late night experiences highlights the power found in taking the synchronicity and spontaneity of an After Hours encounter beneath the bright lights, and using it to inspire and indicate future audio, video, and performance work.
Follow Times Square Arts at @TSqArts, @ArtonAir or #AfterHoursTSq
Gypsy & The Cat “It’s A Fine Line” Music Video
May 16th, 2013
Gypsy & The Cat “It’s A Fine Line”
Alsatian Music, 2013
Directed by Matthew Caron
The Pieces are fading
A heart deformed by waiting
The thief of time is erasing you
Those people those faces, deep in my mind
I hear them parading me tonight.
Am I wasting time if you’re in my mind
While the moon is ripe above me
Well it’s a fine line, yea it’s a fine line
Look inside spy the clues
Candle light across the loom
The feeling comes and chases truth…
Assemble X at Knockdown Center
May 12th, 2013
I curated and performed live visuals for the 10th installment of the ongoing sound and performance series ASSEMBLE, founded by Pat Noecker of RAFT. Projections and video installations were stationed throughout the massive Knockdown Center space by myself, Peter Shapiro, Eric Drasin, Reid Bingham, Sofy Yuditskaya and Matt Romain of Fast Food Music Video.
The musical performance featured Pat Noecker of RAFT leading 16 superb performers in long sustained notes of A and E. The list of performers is as follows:
Alexandra Drewchin JR., Bonnie Baxter, James Corrigan, Jeanann Dara, David First, Kate Henderson, Laura Ortman, Michael Durek, Camilla Ha, Daniel Schlett, Sto Len, Ted McGrath, Jason Poranski, Sadaf H. and Adam Holquist.
Also featured were special performances by Ash Can Orchestra with contortionist The Amazing Amy, and Onewayness from Erie, PA.
Assemble X on Facebook
Videos by Torsten Meyer http://unartignyc.com
REINCARNATED: Official Theatrical Trailer
March 15th, 2013
I edited the theatrical trailer for REINCARNATED a feature film produced by VICE Films, in partnership with Snoopadelic Films. REINCARNATED was released in the United States on March 15, 2013.
Read about REINCARNATED and Snoop Lion at snooplion.com
Fast Food Music Video 2: Caged Animals – Too Much Dark
March 4th, 2013
I used randomly generated data to edit this video of Caged Animals performing “Too Much Dark” for Fast Food Music Video 2: Not Knowing, Adaptability, The Unified Field. The number of the cuts and the sources were dictated by a data generating patch, leaving me with control over the timing of the cuts. I also elected to make the video monochrome.
This exercise in music video making involved applying chance operations to all aspects of a deconstructed production process. Editing was also subject to randomization in a similar fashion, based on the number of video sources recorded.
For a full list of credits and the data used to edit this video, visit Fast Food Music Video on Tumblr
Shattered Shards: PVRE MATRIX _ HD ACID
February 27th, 2013
PVRE MATRIX _ HD ACID from Matthew Caron on Vimeo.
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
