Video
VR content, experimental short films, and live performances
I enjoy using media in new ways, hence all the 360 stuhff below. I’m also fascinated ambisonic audio and its possible uses in film (for which one needs headphones to enjoy [hint hint, go get them]). Anyways, check out the stuff.
360/VR video
the DOUBLES PHENOMENON
My first go at using a 360 camera, Sarah Schore and I constructed a story with characters familiar to anyone who’s ever taught a college class. Spatial audio was used, so listen with headphones if possible.
360 jAMMIN: a spatial music video
This is a collaboration between me and Beaumont Rand–basically an audiovisual experiment in which we spatialized the instrumental tracks of Beamont’s song to various locales around the sound studio (aka my apartment). Please đ listen đ with đ headphones đ§
SOMETHING NEW
The grand finale of my multimedia novel Under Procedure, there’s a very real chance this will make no sense to onlookers. HOWEVER, I believe it’s a pretty #neato use of 360/VR made completely without the use of a 360 camera. It was also a fun experiment to combine both headlocked audio and ambisonic sounds.Â
EVERYTHING ELSE
THE ANSWER: A ZOOM PERFORMANCE
With my MFA experience coming to a close during COVID, our final gala and last live readings were performed on Zoom–an interesting medium, really, for which I cooked up this.
THREE TRUE STORIES: A LIVE READING
Do you like slam poetry? Are you hungry for some truth bombs dropped, some justice wrought, like wars fair-fought: or no. No noo. NNNNNoooooo…war. Wuh-ORR. What is it good for? (*snap snap snap snap) Then check this out, a performance from SIU’s internationally celebrated reading series Buzzed Lit.