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How to be a Spy [ download video ] [ stream ] (07.06.07)

Donebestdone's submission to the 2007 48hr film project. Here were our constraints:

• Genre: Spy movie
  
• Line of dialogue: "Mind if I have a seat?"
  
• Prop: book
  
• Character: Matt or Marie Clifton, a gardener.

NARV1: Dougbertdoug [ download video ] [ stream ] (07.06.07)

Our first long-distance collab-narrative piece. The video was passed around in various stages of completion and added to until it was complete.

SUPER MARIMBA v2.0



(K)chaone [ download video ] [ stream ] (02.08.07)

This is an excerpt of a piece composed and performed by Payton MacDonald. Donebestdone then took photos of the marimba, drum kit, and everything else Payton uses and put together a video to accompany the piece. The audio version of this piece will be performed by Payton at Carnegie Hall.



Vignette [ download video ] [ stream ] (02.08.07)

This is an excerpt of a piece composed and performed by Payton MacDonald. Donebestdone then took photos of the marimba, drum kit, and everything else Payton uses and put together a video to accompany the piece. The audio version of this piece will be performed by Payton at Carnegie Hall.



(K)chaone (BIPO mix) [ download video ] [ stream ] (02.08.07)

This is a remix of (K)chaone written by donebestdone. All audio was taken from our recording session with Payton and heavily processed to make all of the various bips and bleeps. The video was made from photos of Payton's setup (marimba, drumkit, mixer, pedals, etc).



LAKE EFFECT EP
EXPLAINATION: This EP is made entirely from the source of the NPR radio interview DBD did after "Four Films" won the Milwaukee 24 Hour Film Festival. All of the audio that you hear is heavily (or not) processed sound directly from that interview. Instead of posting the entire EP at once, this project will grow as more tracks are added over the coming weeks and months....

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four films [ download hi ] [ download lo ] [ stream ] (07.24.06)
Four films was our submission to the Milwaukee International Film Festival's 24 Hour Film Competition. Teams of eight people or less gathered at the Milwaukee Art Museum Tuesday morning July 19th for the announcement of the theme the films were to be based on. The theme for this year's competition was "confessions". Teams then had 24 hours to complete a film no longer than 5 minutes in length. Four Films was awarded first place and will screen at the Milwaukee International Film Festival this October.

....the rules stated we could only turn in one film. be be be be BEEEOW!

iterations [ download ] [ stream ] (11.30.05)
Iterations is a multi-scale iteration and feedback experiment in sound and video. Initially, live instruments and found and ambient sound were recorded using digital media devices and then serially manipulated and recycled through varying lengths of delay and layering. Much of the music was composed upon the first generation of tracks, and then, in turn, subjected to layering, delay, and feedback techniques, after which it was manipulated again through the same process. Finally, it was broadcast aloud through the studio to the microphones on camcorders which were part of the video reiteration process, and played real-time through their corresponding monitors. Images were initially generated using a form of unstable optical resonance, basically, a complex feedback chain of dv cams, monitors, and a pane of glass. Eac h "iteration" was then subjected to a meta-process, consisting of editing, looping and resending the video back into the system of optical resonance where it originated. The new manifestation of altered video was then recorded, and resubjected to the process.




kidfarm [ download ] [ stream ] (11.23.05)
Industrialization finally makes its way fully into the 21st century "nuclear" family in a bizarre take on genetic engineering and mass-production.  Confusion reigns when a couple is confronted with the decision to live childless or buy a baby from the one-stop kid shop, Kid Farm.  Are these manufactured babies safe?  Are they friendly?  What will the Joneses think?  And what's covered in the warranty?

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KID FARM EP (07.14.06)

Our second album to date, the Kid Farm EP features music from and inspired by our animated short "Kid Farm". The album features music that was used in the film and created during the making of the film.

The album also features three tracks that demonstrate how we used the entire mixdown of Kid Farm (dialogue and sound effects included) for live audio/video sculptures. The audio from these video pieces have been edited down for release on this album. The full length video pieces can be found on our dvds.

TRACK LISTING:

ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS (05.07.06)

Our first album, Abstracts and Extracts, is entirely improvised and features music spanning from our third official installment "weekend two" all the way up to our most recent installment "1000 whispers".

Some of the tracks on the album are essentially excerpts from much longer improvised "jam sessions" (the trithorlac of calthicacamore, beat match 1.43) while others appear just as instantaneously as they were created. (our dinner conversation with terry riley, space station one) Meanwhile, some of the tracks are audio from some of our video pieces that were strong enough to stand on their own (a greater degree of hardware awareness, drone in C major) while others were created only with music being the focus.(it scared me then loved me, sifty trumpboneophone, and M357) Regardless of the music's origin, everything on the album was created instantaneously with no premeditated composition.

TRACK LISTING (click for artwork)
01 welcome to the synchroton
02 beat match 1.43
03 a greater degree of hardware awareness
04 our dinner conversation with terry riley
05 sifty trumpboneophone
06 third draft, fourth revision
07 geometer
08 the trithorlac of calthicacamore
09 different phases are equalibrium
10 superquartwitch
11 space station one
12 twins
13 drone in C major
14 it scared me then loved me
15 M357




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MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY


I HAVEN'T READ A BOOK IN AT LEAST FIVE YEARS [ download video ] [ stream ] (01.04.07)
This piece was composed using only photos of the Minneapolis Public Library. They had a call for artwork submissions for a display
case in the library so DBD decided to throw a lil' something, something together. We got rejected!


MILWAUKEE STREET MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee St , Milwaukee is the name of an event put on by Cedar Block, presenter of odd little art events in Milwaukee. It took place in conjunction with the Saul Leiter street photography exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The event featured live performances, lectures, dj sets, and photographs from several local artists, including yours truly.  Our two hour set consisted of improvised audio/video jams and screenings of through-composed pieces.  The audio and video for our set was derived completely from field recordings, video, and photographs of Milwaukee St. Everything you see and hear came from our source recordings of the actual street. The event was clearly a success and we're looking forward to working with Cedar Block again the the future.

smiltown [ download ] [ stream ] [12.01.06] [ MKEstMKE ]
This piece was composed using only audio / video / photography taken of Milwaukee Street. The individual elements from this piece were used as building blocks for the improvised audio/video jams during our set. Some people call it instrumental video and sometimes those people are kick ass.

DBD LONG DISTANCE [v2]

EXPLAINATION: Movies are arranged from short media clips in a pool stored on the internet.  The media pool is selected by a participant, and a movie is composed strictly from the clips in the pool by a separate participant.  After composition is complete, the movie is rendered, the pool is swapped out with new clips by yet another participant (The number of clips in the pool and their durations stay constant), and the arrangement is re-rendered, substituting the new clips for the old.  Both movies are uploaded.  The next participant (not the one that selected the pool) arranges a new video piece with the new pool, renders; a separate participant selects yet another pool, and the piece is re-rendered with the newer clips.  The third arranger begins with that pool and so on...

DATE	CLIP POOL (quicktime)	COMPOSITION	MEDIA (quicktime)	RERENDERED (quicktime)
[08.24.06]	jason [1]  (view)	mike	hairless wonder [ stream ]	hairless wonder (clip pool 2) hairless wonder (clip pool 3) hairless wonder (clip pool 4)
[08.27.06]	jason [2]  (view)	vince	dadada [ stream ]	dadada (clip pool 3) dadada (clip pool 4) [ stream ]
[08.30.06]	mike [3]  (view)	jason	grey soup [ stream ]	grey soup (clip pool 4) [ stream ] grey soup (clip pool 6) grey soup (clip pool 7)
[09.02.06]	mike [4]  (view)	kyle	a brief explaination v2 [ stream ]	a brief explaination v2 (clip pool 5) [ stream ]
[09.05.06]	vince [5] (view)	mike	fifth grade	fifth grade (clip pool six)
[09.08.06]	kyle [6]  (view)	vince	don't be cross
[09.11.06]	mike [7]  (view)	jason	sinus inspection	sinus inspection (clip pool 8)

DBD LONG DISTANCE [v1]

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DBD LIVE A/V MANIPULATION

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_RINGTONES (mp3)