Redflybluebottle
Some of my video imagery for the multimedia songcycle RedFly/BlueBottle. Staged as a concert within a video installation environment, Red Fly/Blue Bottle conjures an associative visual landscape in which objects open up in unexpected ways, unfolding to reveal worlds within worlds. Permeated by loss, the familiar is made strange: Voices emanate from the mouths of jars, clocks explode, flies whisper, oscillators serve as portals to the past. Tightly crafted hypnotic songs (alternative and down-tempo dream-pop) emerge from an evocative multi-channel sonic terrain of found sounds, ticking clocks and analog tone generators; miniature noir films are projected onto floating surfaces, and live and premade video animates earthbound objects. Juxtaposed, these sounds and images create a dense terrain of sonic and visual echoes whose reverberations amplify the conundrum at the core of the piece.
