Video: Ocean Arch
Labels: ambient music, composition, improvisation, ocean, video
posted by Art Durkee at 12:01 PM
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
About Me
- Name: Art Durkee
- Location: Nomadic, Western and Midwestern, United States
A wandering musician, artist, and writer, traveling across the face of the earth and sharing what is encountered. Has won awards for music composition, visual art, and creative writing.
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- Video: Light & Silence
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- Heartlands: Rehearsal & Performance
- Handedness in Photography
- New Music for Meditation: Flute Recordings
- Standing By Words
- The Fire Sermon: a commentary
- Lost Roads
- The Road to the Western Lands 2
- Songwriting: Storytelling
3 Comments:
Interesting - the viewer is "inside" looking out, on watcher splashing and slapping against the rocks, sometimes rather forcefully but you don't hear it. What you do hear sets a kind of mood, and inner calmness, which is transferable to other circumstances, "outside" the cloistered zone of observation, and where the calming sounds must be imagined.
Wonderful improvisation, Art. When I first saw it on the page against the black background I mistook it for a photograph--that suddenly self-animated. A visual puzzle piece into which you can climb and instantly be at the seashore. How wonderful.
...erg. That should have been "waves" splashing against the rocks, not watcher. Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. :)
Actually, this particular watcher HAS splashed against those rocks a couple of times, and left some skin behind, too. There was one time I fell into a tide pool right beside where I made these images. Ouch. The camera was dry and okay, though.
So your comments were accurate either way. :)
I appreciate your comments on the video and music very much. You've brought out exactly what I was going for. I've experienced many moments in places like this, when the surf or wind is really loud, that there grows inside you an inner silence. That's what I was trying to convey, that kind of contemplative stillness. I've tried to convey that, probably with varied success, in poems and other music I've made, as well. It's a recurring theme.
I do have still photographs from the same moment, taken at the same time. I usually photograph from the same location when making a video like this. Sometimes I mix them together, too. I will probably do that in a future video.
Thanks again! It feels really good to be understood in one's art. :)
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