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Re: Meditation in Blue -- new piece on You Tube



Very trippy and quite a different experience in silence. 

On Aug 19, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> "Meditation on Blue" (http://youtu.be/bmGZ5vWu8HE) is the simplest piece 
> I have ever posted. One sequence, one filter, no music, and (to me, at 
> least) a certain magic. It is one of those happy accidents that can 
> bless the artist who is attentive enough to notice them. I was working 
> on some material to use in my live mixing performances, and had made a 
> six minute sequence of symmetrized video from two shots of trees over 
> and reflected in water.
> 
> I often take these sequences make make variants of them for mixing by 
> applying different filters to the entire sequence, and putting the 
> versions that I like on the same DVD as the original for use in 
> performance. When I do this, I am not attempting to make finished pieces.
> 
> In this case, one of the sequences particularly caught my eye. I looked 
> closely at it, and decided that it was a complete piece in its own right 
> and didn't even need a soundtrack.
> 
> You can watch it in silence or with any music that is expansive and not 
> aggressive -- such as Indian Classical Music, Bach, or any kind of 
> (relatively quiet) improvised music. Enjoy, and please let me know what 
> you think of the pieces.
> 
> 
> BTW Some of my photography can be viewed at 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/collections/72157603627170351/
> -- 
> " Practice makes perfect, imperfect is better."  -- Paul Bley
> 
>               Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D.
> Video Producer                        Image Processing Specialist
> Video for your HEAD!                  Boris FX
> http://www.foryourhead.com            http://www.borisfx.com
> 

Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch
http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
edurbrow@sea.plala.or.jp