Time, Through Windows
Posted by Erik | Filed under music, sound, spoken-word, video, visual, word
Time, Through Windows explores the perception of time, using the passage from spring to winter as a metaphor for the artist’s father’s cycle of life—from child to elder. Music and spoken dialog work in combination with video to create a six-piece narrative that invites the audience into an intimate durational experience. This work, presented as a circular grouping of six audio/video pairs, acts as a vehicle for the audience to contemplate that which might normally go overlooked.
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Tags: audio, cycle, durational, father, lens, narrative, perspective, rythym, spoken-word, video, visual
A Fact of Modern Life
Posted by Erik | Filed under design, music, sound, spoken-word
The piece may seem at first to be the antithesis of the majority of the work I do, with simplicity replaced with a cacophony of spoken text. However, it is about the rhythm found in the repetition and the contextual shifting that can occur. The Chicago poetry slam is an influence in this area of my work.
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Tags: audio, repetition, rythym, simplicity, spoken-word