"Spectral Evidence" trailer

"Spectral Evidence" trailer: In September 2011, my g-friend Amy & I went to Massachusetts for various vacation-like activities & I shot, as usual, a movie. At 1st, the working title for the movie was "MASS" b/c I liked the ambiguity between the state name & the heft of physicality but I didn't want to explore the ambiguity of "mass" as a religious ceremony (besides I'd already used masses as soundtracks in another movie). SO, after I learned about the "Spectral Evidence", ie: the 'evidence' of dreams & visions, that'd been used in the Salem (& elsewhere) witch trials of 1692, I decided that that was a much better title. The 1st edit I made using this footage was w/ the "Sync'd 4" program in mind, created by Pittsburgh filmmaker Mike Maraden, that I'd been invited to be a part of. "Sync'd 4" is a series in wch Pittsburgh moviemakers are invited to contribute a silent movie to have a soundtrack created for it & played live by Pittsburgh musicians. "Sync'd 4" was scheduled to be in the 30th annual Three Rivers Film Festival created by the wonderful Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The musicians for this event were "Gangwish" (percussion & electronics from Sam Pace) & "Lungs Face Feet" (a cumbia inspired band w/ mostly brass & percussion). Liking both of them I was delighted. Knowing that song structure is what's most familiar to many musicians I decided to up the ante by making my movie conform to a much more complicated song structure than usual & to label each part to make this clear. I figured that regardless of whether the musicians met the challenge or not the results wd create an interesting counterpoint of sorts. "Lungs Face Feet" were chosen by Mike to make the soundtrack for my movie &, even though they felt like they hurried their process more than they wd've liked, I think they did a great job! This is a trailer b/c there's now a feature length version of "Spectral Evidence" culled from much of the same footage (& more) that also has the editing of its visuals deeply created around its soundtrack. "Spectral Evidence" is my 100TH FEATURE!! - something that one wd imagine wd make make movie scholars sit up & take notice of me. They won't. I'm too lunatic fringe & my movies are too lo-budget. The members & instrumentation for this occasion for "Lungs Face Feet" were: Aaron Lindberg: tuba, Ben Grubb: alto sax, whistling, weather radio, H. Caleb Gamble: trumpet, Jesse Phillips: drums, percussion, flugelhorn, Mika Metz: baritone horn, Rick Kolling: accordion, Korg synthesizer. - November 12, 2011 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
• Spectral Evidence
• Sync'd 4
• Mike Maraden
• Lungs Face Feet
• Ben Grubb
• Caleb Gamble
• Aaron Lindberg
• Jesse Phillips
• Mika Metz
• Rick Kolling

[onesownthoughts]

Thanks Spat! Glad you liked it! I hope I can screen the feature in P-Burgh someday. It's got music by Schoenberg, Peter Maxwell Davies, The Chamber Jazz Sextet w/ Kenneth Patchen, & HiTEC - so you're probably in there somewhere!

[spateodrome]

That was great, Lungs Face Feet did a great job accompanying your piece and the end result is wonderful.