Visual Music

(2001-2002), 11'44"
for three SD video channels and stereo sound

• Music and images: Jean Piché

• eXpress is a commission from the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges in France. It was premiered there in June 2002. The footage was shot on the Bourges-Paris S.N.C.F. train. The highly kinetic allure of eXpress is obtained by forcing a very fast camera shutter speed with a large aperture. eXpress explores velocities to the point of kinetic outrage, through fields, villages and city.

• The original size is 2160x480. The Vimeo HD reduction yields a 1280x284, about 60% of the original resolution.

(1999-2001), 17'54"
for three SD video channels and stereo sound.

• Music and images: Jean Piché

• Spin was my first videomusic using multiple channels. Spin is presented in three segments each dealing with its own level of abstraction. All images are obtained by "spinning" camera techniques and processing, the goal being of severely altering iconicity. There are no synthetic images.

• The original size is 2160x480. The Vimeo HD reduction yields a 1280x284, about 60% of the original resolution.

(2002), 20'16"
for three SD video channels and stereo sound.

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• Music and images: Jean Piché
• Violin: Ivan Zawada
• Voice: Mohandas K. Gandhi

• Bharat was shot in Northern India in early spring 2002 and premiered in November of the same year. This is the first time I shot with the aim of assembling in panoramic triple screen mode. Scanned panning scenes were reconstructed from multiple exposures. The text is extracted from the last known recording in the english language by Mohandas K Gandhi in 1947.

• The original size is 2160x480. The Vimeo HD reduction yields a 1280x284, about 60% of the original resolution.

qc test
video generated by Ryoji Ikeda's music named Data Index from album Data Plex

This film has a 3D effect (most visible towards the end).
If you want to see this effect, you need to get a normal pair of dark sunglasses (the darker the better) and tilt them so that they COVER ONLY YOUR LEFT EYE. Non-polarized work better. There is a test screen at the very beginning of the film to see if the effect is working for you.

Ben Rubin is a swell fella... and he's 1/2 of the band Mudville.
They had a new album coming out,
so I made this music video for them.

I made it in Touch Designer (version 66 I believe).
I performed the animation live in realtime, and multi-tracked the results.