Month: August 2014

This is Not a Remix

After noticing that Kirby Ferguson has released the first part of his long-in-the-making new documentary series This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, I noticed that the series (which included some work-in-progress updates that were published over the last six months) is available through the on demand area of vimeo. The price is $12 for the…

uke-yello (October 2013)

after some busy days, it’s time to get back to this CreativePact thing… On the 16th (two days ago) I had a quick look back at some of the ‘improvised’ videos that had been uploaded to (using this search url) and bookmarked some of them. One of those is no longer available; this one is…

the tool has become the message

Recently uploaded: Kim Cascone – Huddersfield Lecture 2011 from Rob Lycett on Vimeo. Part-recording of a lecture by Kim Cascone University of Huddersfield 19th May 2011 An earlier section of this talk is quoted in my PhD thesis (§3.7.5).

Rescued guitars

The description of this one tells of the work undertaken to restore guitars that are have been abandoned or neglected… to someone who has a slowly growing collection of such instruments, this (which is part of a series of) video(s) inspires in multiple ways: Alain’s Guitars – Impro #1: Ouverture from Josue Febles on Vimeo.…

Melodica improv

A few technical hitches with rendering the video for this one… here’s a preview posted here whilst sorting that out: The video is now uploaded: Showing an improvised melodica part to an experimental work in progress titled ‘stretch’. About the work: Five stereo sound recordings (of around ten seconds to two minutes duration) have been…

Improvising Consciousness

To see what’s new, and possibly on topic, I used again the search URL posted yesterday… There are 16 more videos atop of the ones found yesterday, here’s a selected few of them – in the sequence that they were viewed – one is added to the inclusive improv group collection. Seeing the title ‘Improvising…

improvised

A quick one today… I did a simple search (no filters) on vimeo for ‘improvised’ sorted the results by date: http://vimeo.com/search/sort:date/format:thumbnail?q=Improvised The video I uploaded 22 hours ago was seventh in the results, and the one called ‘random landscape’ was uploaded around the same time: Here it is:

two guitars and some live patching

I spent the day at Ben’s house, recording (guitars mostly) for an album that we (and others) are (sporadically) working on. Ryan joined us in the evening, and he played some guitar parts that Ben had written. Ryan came up with a new guitar part for a tune that I’d written a few months ago.…

Words

CreativePact ↓ CreativePact is the hub of a group of artists, musicians and technologists who enter a pact to create and document some new creative output regularly over the course of a month. Pacts may begin between August-October and run for 30 days. In years gone by the word regularly would have been daily, but…

Nakedness

Day one for this CreativePact project (see the intro posted yesterday, and see creativepact.co.uk for other projects going on this month), and to begin this month of collecting videos of improvisation I started with some simple searches. The term ‘improv’ returns many cases of words like ‘improvement’ in the video titles, descriptions and tags; nevertheless,…