DJ Essey and I have been hard at work constructing new audio works - check out the media page at http://catscradlerobbers.com to see what's new (I'm particularly partial to Dewy Iris, and our latest track "1000 Lawyers" is a Bhangra-inspired sketch that should grow into something really interesting in time).
I work a bit slower in the video department, but I've finally completed the music video for Weftovers. This started with footage shot during the initial session with Tomo Hoku at Ed's place, and I took off from there, using this project as a testbed for a number of advanced digital compositing and animation techniques I've been learning in my spare time.
So, for example, I augmented the original footage with shots of myself practicing Capoeira, my daughter and I on the trampoline, and a number of shots taken against the orange and green walls of my living room and front hallway. On the evening that Ed arrived at my place to create "Fall's Scents", he walked into an improvised green screen studio where I coerced him into lip-syncing his own poem in order to build the facial morphs for the poem sequence in the video.
Enough chatter - on to the video. Enjoy, and please post feedback!
- Snake
