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Small Room tango is an experiment in videomusical technique using nothing but the synchronous sounds and images captured in a piano practice room.

Intended merely as a proof of concept of some ideas I had back in the winter of 2003, this piece went on to be featured in the Best of Optronica, Best of Cologne OFF and numerous other short film and video festivals. It was finally published on DVD by Raum für Projektion in 2007 as part of Loop Pool On Ice, commissioned by the 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

Special thanks to my producer, cousin and camera man Cory Choy.

"Anyone who has attempted this kind of video-sampling-
whilst-letting-the-audio-determine-the-structure will know just how extremely bloody difficult & fiddly it all is. Hats off big time, then, to Gabriel Shalom, who not only makes it look natural & easy but even squeezes poetry from it."

— Michael Szpakowski, co-curator of the DVblog.

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  • bldng. plus 1 year ago
    Excellently executed. I did something similar once, but I have to admit this is much better performed and cut.
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 1 year ago
    Thanks! I did this back in 2004 and since have produced several pieces in this style. Most recently a station ID campaign for Italian music TV;

    vimeo.com/1460855
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  • DELATELI.TV 1 year ago
    Beathoven ))))
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  • Sebastian Rumberg 1 year ago
    At first I was kinda sceptical, but I really like the outcome and especially the piano-part: music actually makes a difference :)

    Thumbs up
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  • boyridingosaurus 10 months ago
    agree with sebastian here - music, admittedly, does play a big part. well done in keeping it together.
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 10 months ago
    Thanks!
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  • rickflick 10 months ago
    Crazy Gabriel. You should play Carnegie Hall!
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 10 months ago
    That. Would. Be. Sweet.
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  • rickflick 10 months ago
    Then, sweet it is!
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  • Lam Thuy Vo plus 4 months ago
    did you use just final cut to produce put the music together? If yes, how did you get the precision in your rhythm?
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 4 months ago
    Using final cut for this would have made me cry. ;)

    I composed/edited on Sony Vegas. Its great because it was an audio editor before they added video to it in a later version. As far as I can tell its has the most robust built-in audio capabilities of all the popular video editors. Before I started editing video I was making electronic music for 4 years using a music program called Acid Pro which has almost the same interface as Vegas...
  • Lam Thuy Vo plus 4 months ago
    Damn me and my Mac. I might have to pull out my dusty back-up PC for this.

    Thanks a bunch!
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 4 months ago
    hmm if its too dusty it might not be up to speed ;) but good luck with your project!
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  • Nina. plus 6 days ago
    François Chalet showed this to us in the second or third semester. Loved it right away!
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