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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Christopher Willits - OPENING





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'OPENING' is a 45 minute visual album created by Christopher Willits which is described as an experience, designed to inspire a space of peace and expansion.


OPENING Press Release

"For years, I’ve imagined the work I do in music, photography, video/film, immersive audio and meditation all coming into one space," says music-art guru Christopher Willits from his home in San Francisco. It's an ambition that seems especially befitting of a worldly polymath like Willits. "Sound and light can transform and inspire our imaginations," he continues. "It can be used as a tool to awaken our consciousness." And that is exactly what he has set out to do with OPENING, the veteran Ghostly artist's new immersive audio-visual project.
Across seven tracks of widescreen ambient music, 45 minutes of visuals shot over four years in multiple countries, seven photographs, and a multi-sensory, multiple channel live performance, Willits has created something which might better be thought of as an experience than a simple album. OPENING features Willits' latest music since Ancient Future, his 2012 collaboration with Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, and his recent production and mastering work on Tycho's “Awake”. The vibrant, enveloping sounds we've come to expect from him are on full display. The quiet majesty of "Vision" ushers us into the sacred world Willits creates, a living universe that billows and heaves alongside slow-grooving songs like "Clear" and "Connect," or with the textural minutiae and harmonic subtleties in "Ground" and “Now”. Closing out the album, "Wide" and "Release" offer the listener a gentle comedown through 15 minutes of transcendent audio, with Willits' delicate guitar manipulations breathing life into the aether of finely textured atmospheres and soft-glowing synths.
The other integral facet to the experience of OPENING is Willits' visual work. After building a library of images from his travels around California, Hawaii, Japan, and Thailand, Willits is unveiling an abstract narrative film, with seven scenes that correspond with the seven songs from the album along with seven limited edition photo prints. The 45-minute film interfuses music and a first-person perspective of meditative scenes -- inspiring nature sections reminiscent of the films Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi and Planet Earth -- to create the space of OPENING.
Willits says, "There are no actors or dialogue in this film. The audience and their perception is the main character, and everyone's imagination is going to create some meaning that's relevant to their own experience. My intention is to create a space where people can open up and expand into, relax and recharge.” OPENING is unlike anything Willits has accomplished before, perhaps because the audio-visual project is about expanding one's mind to invite something new. Or, as Willits puts it, "For me, OPENING is about transformation, the experience of changing oneself to be more of who you know you can be, and, ultimately, the joy that comes with that change."

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Christopherwillits.com
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Max Cooper - Empyrean




♥♥♥♥♥ Perfection...

'Empyrean' - The highest reaches of Heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure Fire or Light. △


Video Directed by Joseph Murrell.

Soundcloud
Max Cooper.net


Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Teotihuacan - 'Place where Gods were born'




Pyramid of the Sun ☼


Pyramid of the Moon ☾






The pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan is thought to have been established around 100 BC, with major monuments continuously under construction until about AD 250.

The city's broad central avenue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name Miccoatli), is flanked by impressive ceremonial architecture, including the immense Pyramid of the Sun (third largest in the World after the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Great Pyramid of Giza) and the considerably smaller, but no less impressive pyramid of the Moon. Further down the Avenue of the Dead is the area known as the Citadel, containing the ruined Temple of the Feathered Serpent. (often identified with the much-later Aztec god Quetzalcoatl)

The city is thought to have reached its zenith around AD 450 and lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries AD. Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, with a population of 125,000 or more. Teotihuacan began as a new religious center in the Mexican Highland around the first century AD and the consensus among scholars is that the primary deity of Teotihuacan was the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan.

The site covers a total surface area of 83 square kilometres and is located in the Basin of Mexico, (30 miles (48 km) northeast of modern-day Mexico City).


Teotihuacan: Wiki
Great Goddess of Teotihuacan: Wiki


Thursday, 14 November 2013

We Can Be Ghosts Now






Hand-painted and numbered (from their place in the video) Wooden Triangles from the award winning Stop Motion Animation video for 'We Can Be Ghosts Now ' by Hiatus.

From the limited edition 'Parklands' CD bundle.

Available: Here

Hiatus: Soundcloud
Hiatus: Bandcamp


Tuesday, 24 September 2013

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Thursday, 12 September 2013

Tunnelblick (2013)




Superb video collaboration between Henning M. Lederer (Visuals) and Rob Clouth A.K.A Vaetxh (Sound).


Rob Clouth: Soundcloud
Henning M. Lederer: Vimeo


Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Demon Seed (1977)







Classic 1970's Sci-Fi Horror film, Starring Julie Christie and Fritz Weaver. Directed by , (Performance (1970)) . Based on the novel of the same name by Dean R. Koontz.

I first saw this film as a child in the late 70's , it created an indelible impression, which has stayed with me to this day.

One of my all time favourite films.

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Plot

"A scientist creates Proteus IV an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife."


"I can't touch you as a Man could, but I'm going to show you things that I alone, have seen" - Proteus IV

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Proteus IV Monitor footage by Jordan Belson.

Music by Jerry Fielding.

Trailer

IMDb