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Archive | November, 2016
Space Bass created and played by Constance Demby, 1980’s
18 NovI came across this video on the Mesmerizing Instruments and Sound Facebook Page. I love the eerie psychedelic tones almost as much as I love watch her play the ting in that fabulous outfit. That belt! Here’s the text from the Mesmerizing…Page:
“An ominous “80ties” Constance Demby playing the “Space Bass” , a instrument of her own design.
The Sonic Steel Space Bass is a 10 ft sheet of mirror finish stainless steel with 5 octaves of steel and brass rods. The rods can be bowed, struck percussively, and the metal sheet can be rubbed to create various effects. Several tones can be created by bowing a single rod, resulting in a multi-tiered overtone series. A sound scientist determined that the sound waves on the lowest notes of the instrument are approximately thirty feet long.
Constance Demby is a performing and recording artist, vocalist, experimental musical instrument inventor, painter, sculptor, and multi-media producer. Her work is categorized in the ambient/new age genre”
Off The Air: Liquid (S05E01)
16 NovAired in 2015.
List of videos in this episode:
Run Walter Run video provided by Newsflare
Phantom Water Reel by Chris Bryan
Helium Shark by Thomas Marque
Ice Crystal Timelapse by Shawn Knol
Ice cream video by Alan Steadman
Machine Networks 2013 by Ryan Tyler Martinez
Most Incredible Volcano by Geoff Mackley
BBBB by Natalia Stuyk
A Family Affair by Ed Schrader, Kevin Sherry, and John Voigt
Bubble Device #2 by Nicholas Hanna
“Bryn Marina” music video by David Jude Harris, for the song by Sound of Ceres
Splashy Duck by William Anderson; atomic bomb footage provided by VCE Digital, Inc.
The Huber Experiments – Vol. 2 by Erik and Matthew Huber
Vagabond Mutant Liquid by Tobias Stretch
Dry Lights by Xavier Chassaing, score by Thomas Vaquie
Kayakers in Drainage Ditch by Rush Sturges and Ben Marr
Corbu – Battles
15 NovDirected and animated by Daniel Cordero
Story by Corbu
From the debut album Crayon Soul, mixed by Dave Fridmann, released on August 5th, 2016. If you are curious about the album and its cinematic manifestation, you can read an interview with the duo.
Koyaanisqatsi – Godfrey Reggio
12 NovWhen I recently realized that the film Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Godfrey Reggio has not been featured on the DPV yet I was quite shocked. After all, I consider this film to be possibly the most psychedelic and impressive film ever. Still, maybe there is a reason to that. You don’t watch Koyaanisqatsi on YouTube and even though I now feature it here, I encourage and urge you to get the full high-quality film and watch it in one piece on a big screen as it should be watched.
How to explain Koyaanisqatsi. The word itself means “Life out of balance” in the Hopi language, and the film dwells on the topic of human civilization’s loss of balance and it’s destruction of life and nature on this planet. A movie with no words, it begins with spectacular unmoving images of nature and gradually accelerates until reaching the breathless world of the modern city.
Koyaanisqatsi was the grandfather of many films that would be later made in the same style, not only Reggio’s own Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi but also more popular titles such as Baraka, Samsara and Chronos. None of the above have achieved, in my mind, the same philosophical profundity and spiritual depth which characterize Koyaanisqatsi. Highly recommended.
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