Current Projects and a few Thoughts

Right now I'm working on an album and accompanying visualization that is a projected 60 minutes in length. The music is coming along very well and will be completed and I will be happy with it within a good time frame. YAY. I'm just doing this in the simple way that makes sense to me and makes me happy with the result. It's a kind of boundary-less approach that could be just about anything that it wants. In this case there are a number of sections built on grid-like time with looped material often interrupted unpredictably, like an erratic heartbeart, and there are a number of sections with more ambient construction, like breath. I just got my Canon Powershot SX 20 IS and I'm ready to start shooting HD Videos and then scrambling them for the visual side. I want to try to achieve something along the lines of Here Come the Waves by the Decemberists, Kouyaniqatsi, and the work of Takagi Masakatsu. In other words, Video Art. I'll need the visual component to be equally strong to the audible component which will prove to be a challenge, but I'm going to try to simply workshop it out until I'm happy with it. I'm going to start by simply imagining images while listening to the music, then drawing from those themes and ideas to try to capture real world footage and then alter and arrange it digitally to fit the aesthetic of manipulation of sound and image, regardless of the source, to be listened to and seen and appreciated for its simple, abstracted appeal.