KinoEar is an artistic collaboration between myself and Israeli musician and composer, Ma’ayan Tsadka. The collaboration explores the visual and sonic potential of places realized in site-specific soundfilms, where the topography, architecture, found objects, and natural soundscape dictates the form of sonic and visual compositions. Our work presents a unification of sound and image atypical in traditional cinema: we aim to break the hierarchy between the two. Our project recognizes the intersection of these two elements while also being a means through which people can perceive both familiar and lesser-known spaces in different ways.



KinoEar

A collaborative series by myself and Lisa Banks examining the intersection of celluloid and digital video through experimental compositing of 8mm and 16mm film with 3D wireframe imagery. The digital video frames are generated using a 3D depth mapping visualization system called RGBD toolkit, and combined with the analog film through various processes exploiting the concept of stereoscopic vision.
Music by sound artist Justin Zupnick. 

Stereoscopic Exquisite Corpse in 2.5D

The xPlace/Space series explores the phenomenon of simultaneously experiencing multiple places and spaces through our screens. While one is physically in one place in front of their computer, they can, at the same time, virtually exist elsewhere. And in the case of the video chat, I would argue that the person could exist in a third “place” in which they are communicating with another person in real time, while neither is physically in the same space. These investigations extend beyond the social and continue into the landscape, the environmental, and the spatio-political. 

Not all borders are explicit. How do we negotiate gray-areas, both physical and virtual? How does one develop an identity around the place(s) they exist and the rest of the world around them? How do people find a sense of belonging in these spaces socially and politically constructed? And who gets to decide who belongs? The ability of technology to connect geographically disparate communities, and to allow us to temporarily – if virtually - transgress border restrictions to relate and communicate, sheds light on the arbitrariness and ambiguity of rules of nationality, passage, and belonging.

The videos draw on Sergei Eisenstein's theory of the Soviet Montag to juxtapose two or more (video) images and create the impression that the viewer is experiencing multiple places simultaneously. The enigmatic nature of the juxtaposition, presented without context or commentary, also inspires questions as to the meaning of those images— placed one above the other– leading viewers to imagine possible relationships between them. In this way, I imagine each video as a hybrid of multiple spaces, fused together to create a new place, of uncertain origin and meaning, that is neither of the sites depicted, and both.

xPlace/Space:008

From the secret location of his underground doomsday shelter, Randy Miller performs a special, live show for all of his beloved fans.  April 2020

All original songs from his LP "Lone Wolf" and upcoming, unreleased rock opera, Randy Miller and The Earthly Crisis!

Randy Miller and the Earthly Crisis! is ana full-length musical album and companion video (in progress) set 100 years in our future after a cataclysmic event devastates the planet. Brined in alcohol, Randy Miller somehow manages to withstand 100 years of environmental change and an evolution of cyborg societies. Now he must fight to survive a foreign terrain in search of other humans. Follow the adventures of old masculinity in a new world!

'The Earthly Crisis' has been in conception for over a year, in which I have been writing songs, developing characters and plot for the music video.

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