Adam Kendall - Al Griffin - Video

Adam Kendall - Video

IAN/KEITH/ROOF
Ian/Keith/Roof is currently screening at the online gallery of multimedia label Contour Editions. The piece reflects my interest in structured writing for video. It started life as a notated performance piece for live video and two bass clarinets -- This is the studio version, with the same parts played instead by midi software controlling video and two synthesizer voices.

Ian/Keith/Roof (offsite link to Contour Editions) (7:29) (Music by Adam Kendall) (June 2010)

TOYS' OPERA
Toys' Opera is an ongoing project with with Yoni Niv and Elad Shniderman. It's a performance/installation piece for multi-channel video, multi-channel sound-art, and physical-computing centered around and corrupting a universe of HO trains, models, and miniature cameras. Read more and watch/hear a sample Here.

NINE VIDEO PIECES DVD
My latest DVD. It contains a/v pieces from 2004 to 2009 and includes music by Haeyoung Kim (aka Bubblyfish), Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko Nagai), NOMAH (featuring Bradford Reed and Geoff Gersh), and myself. Email to get a copy.

Tracks (see below for online samples and info): Negative City, Five Video Pieces, Hidden Lost Forgotten, A Video Realization of 'In C'.

NEGATIVE CITY
An examination of Brooklyn's urban landscape, emphasizing the borough's low and open skylines, in turn implying the new buildings that unwaveringly fill in the spaces.

Negative City (14:42 / 156.5mb) (Music by Adam Kendall) (Rev. January 2009)
Excerpt (3:09 / 50.1mb) (Music by Adam Kendall) (Rev. January 2009)

The music has bass content and passages that will not be heard on built-in computer speakers.

ECONOMIC ENGINE
Composer Neil Rolnick's octet of Chinese and western instruments and digital processing, with a narrative and structural elements drawn from data describing China's economic boom. The video was originally shot and screened in China by Cindy Ng Sio Ieng. I adapted and processed her footage to create a video realization of Neil's score for a live performance in September 2008. The studio versions of the videos were completed in March 2009. Music performed by Neil Rolnick, Music from China Ensemble, and the Todd Reynolds String Quartet.

1. Traffic  (7:07 / 75.4mb)  (September 2008 / March 2009)
2. Farm to Factory  (4:18 / 39.5mb)  (September 2008 / March 2009)
3. Opaque Air  (4:20 / 39.3mb)  (September 2008 / March 2009)
4. Hutong to Higrise  (7:41 / 92.7mb)  (September 2008 / March 2009)

FIVE VIDEO PIECES
A/V pieces from 2004 and 2005, including music by Vortex, NOMAH, and myself.

Cerro Tower and the Jericho Drum (full-length)  (1:29 / 6.6mb)  (Music by Adam Kendall)  (July 2004)
The Cerro water tower (video) was an icon from my childhood. It was part of an industrial site on Robbins Lane, the dividing line between Jericho and Syosset on Long Island, NY, and was razed late in the summer of 2004. The Jericho Drum (music) refers to a mummified body hidden in a chemical drum for three or four decades. It was discovered around 2000 in a crawlspace in a house down the street from my childhood home in Jericho. I must have passed it thousands of times. (Presented at the Synaesthesiologists' Global Audio Visuals Now segment of the 2004 New York Video Festival.)
Geese (excerpt)  (1:37 / 7.8mb)  (Music by Vortex)  (January 2005)
A video about geese. (Originally presented at the T-Minus2 festival, 2005.)
Birds (and Move) (excerpt)  (2:08 / 10.7mb)  (Video by Al Griffin and Adam Kendall; Music by Adam Kendall)  (July 2004)
A live video-mix of Al's found-footage and my livingroom wall, retroactively set to my music piece "Move".
Kennedy Airport (and Into the Forgotten Aftermath) (excerpt)  (1:53 / 8.8mb)  (Music by NOMAH)  (October 2005)
Kennedy Airport as shot from the Airtrain.
False, Cold Light (full-length)  (6:13 / 33.0mb)  (Music by Adam Kendall)  (June 2005)
Ruben in Grace Park, Great Neck, NY.

HIDDEN LOST FORGOTTEN
From Haeyoung Kim's multimedia suite, for which I created video pieces out of family footage from her childhood. (December 2008) (Originally performed in April 2006)

The Junky Tummy Song (excerpt) (2:32 / 10.5mb) (Videography by the Kim family)
One of several movements. The music is based on a lullaby sung to Haeyoung as a child in Korea.

CASE STUDIES
Several videos from Case Studies (February 2006), a series of 9 short videos in which I take single ideas and set them in motion.

Buffalo/Peace Bridge  (0:58 / 2.1mb)  (from Case Studies)  (Al Griffin, location scout)
Ruth & Marty Driveway  (0:52 / 1.9mb)  (from Case Studies)
Ian/Hands/Laugh  (1:06 / 2.4mb)  (from Case Studies)
Cecily Hippo  (0:46 / 1.6mb)  (from Case Studies)

A VIDEO REALIZATION OF 'IN C'
A video interpretation of Terry Riley's Minimalist composition from 1964 (July 2006).

A Video Realization of 'In C' (excerpt) (2:31 / 5.5mb)
This is a silent, visual version of Terry Riley's famous minimalist piece, in which I play the score via MIDI and map the pitches to various video filters. Thanks to Zach Layton for a good idea (He assembles performances of 'In C' stressing modern electro-acoustic instrumentation and real-time video/film manipulation).

MUSIC-VIDEO FOR 'GLIDE'
The loosest of attempts at an MTV-style music-video for singer/songwriter Neil Nathan and his song 'Glide'. Obligatory moody singer/songwriter portrait-shots abundantly included. (January 2007 / Rev. September 2007)

Glide (3:04 / 12.74mb)

LIVE PIECES WITH HEALAMONSTER & TARSIER
Live set with musicians Healamonster & Tarsier, recorded December 3, 2003, at F:T:H

Highway/Evator (3:24 / 10.1mb)
Bridge/Visionnaire (excerpt) (2:07 / 8.3mb)