“A
Chording Too”” is a videowall installation using 20
video
monitors and four video sources. Produced in collaboration with
composer Mary Ellen Childs, this work investigates the idea of an
accordionist playing five different parts of a composition and depicts
the visual elements of this process by fragmenting the performances and
recombining them in revealing patterns. Four of the parts were recorded
on the four video sources. The 5th part was played live by
Accordionist, Guy Klucevsek This work was given it world premier at the
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, and was later installed at New
York’s Museum of Modern Art. this program received awards
from:
the Association for Multi-Image, and the International Film &
TV
Festival of New York.
“Still
Life” is a videowall installation using nine video monitors
and a
single video source. Produced in collaboration with composer Mary Ellen
Childs, this work depicts the visual elements of a musical composition
by fracturing the single source into multiple images. "Still
Life” was hailed as "a virtuoso demonstration of Videowall
technology, integrating imagery with audio, humor, charm, and artistic
balance" by Audiovisual Communications. This work was given
it's
world premier at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis MN. This program
received awards from: the American Film & Video Festival, the
Chicago Film Festival, and the Association for Multi-Image.
Working with footage provided
by dance Denise Armstead from her trip to the South Dakota, Perimeter
Productions created a music video inspired by Denise’s work
in progress, The Three Bonnies. The footage used was from five
different improvisations to the
song Spit of Love she filmed while choreographing what eventually
became the piece Whoa Men!, and general scenic footage Denise recorded
to remember her trip.