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_ABOUT Early on, our projects were designed without formal constraints in an effort to realize collaborative possibilities and to speed up this process. We experimented with feedback chains to quickly remix and transform visual and sonic information. We made "Kid Farm", our first animated short film. From there, we moved on to developing live performance techniques, which demands a high degree of real-time generation of material. After several performances, we became aware of our ability to remix and manipulate the environment that we're performing in, (or any given environment) which led to the Milwaukee St, Milwaukee and Minneapolis Public Library projects. More recently, we've been focusing our energy toward live performance visuals for Super Marimba. Works created in 2007 were funded in part by the Mary L Nohl foundation for visual artists. [ A BRIEF HISTORY ]
In 2000 our first official organization movies.small (movies "dot" small) was born after Mike made some short movies with his web camera. Soon after, increasingly complex, narrative videos with original soundtracks and special effects were produced, most notably "Patriot Robot”, “The Babysitter” , “The Perfect Story”, “Opium of the People”, and “Yellow 5”. Movies.small became a recognized seal of quality on the web, and our films won several awards at various film festivals. As tastes changed, movies.small started moving away from narrative video to more abstract video pieces. In 2003 movies.small released “The Farmer Says”, our first foray into the experimental domain. It was an approach at rapidly making two separate pieces: a soundtrack produced by Kyle and Jason for Mike's completed video, and a video produced by Mike for their completed music, sampling a child's toy as the only source. It was a moment of clarity for us, and a foreshadowing of things to come. After “The Farmer Says” there was a drought, and movies.small was put on hiatus. Mike and Kyle started an online music community called 1700hz where people could post their own music news and reviews. The goal was to further awareness of good, tasteful music. Jason and Kyle began the process of re-realizing Terry Riley’s minimal masterpiece “In C”, a piece designed for a large ensemble, for only 2 performers by utilizing new developments in software and electronics. Kyle started writing and directing short music videos, several of which involved Jason and Mike. Mike began creating music and instrumental videos under the alias beeple. Jason undertook construction of the Synchroton Media Research Laboratory, the current home base of donebestdone. Oh yeah, we went to college somewhere in there as well. In October of 2005 Mike, Jason, and Kyle assembled at the Synchroton Media Research Laboratory in Milwaukee for the first time to have a good time and create some music. The outing proved to be fun and worth doing again. The next time we got together we started realizing the potential for spontaneous audio and video. By the end of the night a dvd was made and the alias donebestdone was chosen. Since then, we've integrated numerous collaborators into the process, and our work has evolved into the sprawl you now see on this site. It is understood that donebestdone is the nexus of our collective creative endeavors.
Donebestdone is now, is forever. [ PEOPLE ] We would like to take the time to address all of the individuals who have lent us their creative minds and talents to the donebestdone project. Without you, donebestdone would not look and sound the way it does. David White [ rehearsal, 1000 whispers, maximum burnout level 5, kid farm, MKEstMKE, about process] Special Thanks to Pete and Dottie for the continued support and delicious food.
[ ORIGIN ] For those who are curious, the name donebestdone originated in movies.small's work from 2000-2004. In the post-production process we would share video and audio files over a network or with removable storage. To prevent confusion, a filing system was adopted to make searching for files less painstaking. For instance, if we had a final mixdown of dialogue for a scene we would name the file: “final mixdown for scene 5 DONE”. Something would inevitably need to be fixed and the file name might then become “final mixdown for scene 5 DONE BEST”. Changes would continue indefinitely, but the suffix “donebestdone” was reserved for the final version of any piece of the project we were currently working on. It stands for completeness, refinement, and results.
[ GOOD FRIENDS ] beeple
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