LULLAMENT: A video made at the Embodying the Video Essay – videographic workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 8-15th, 2023. This was an experiment in adding sound to a silent film sequence, partly in order to explore the spatial anchoring issues raised by using post-produced sound in an existing scene. In the original film sequence from […]
Exercise created by Dayna McLeod for the Embodying the Video Essay Videographic Workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 2023 With thanks to Katie Grant, May Santiago and Pablo Torres for the original sound. Information on the exercise prompt at our Ways of Doing website:waysofdoing.com/resources/embodied-sound/
How does a caress sound like? Can we make an embrace audible? In this hug between me and my colleague and friend, the videographic scholar Daniel Pope, we two experienced intimate and intense contact I then tried to convey also to the viewer, in particular through acoustical means. I first tried to place contact microphones […]
An exercise adding my own sudden erratic breathing, recorded with a contact microphone against my throat, interlaced into a sequence in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. In particular, this exercise exposed how much nature is shown in a film otherwise thought to be very urban; see also Embodied Smell exercise.
Prompted to collaborate at Embodying the Video Essay on an “unvoiceover,” I asked Hoang Nguyen and Will DiGravio to hum a portion of Madonna’s “Hung Up” and then added my own humming to have a third sonic layer. The already startling beauty of this scene from a “Starsky & Hutch” episode, which recalls Josef von […]
Made during ‘Embodying the Video Essay’ workshop, Bowdoin College, July 2023. Based on an audiovisual exercise designed by Dayna McLeod. For research purposes only.
I had used contact mics in 2018 as part of a residency sponsored by Media@McGill at Ada X in Montreal with Nik Forrest and Jackie Gallant. We were experimenting with my vaginal canal as recording studio and did some recordings to figure out what Uterine Concert Hall was and was not using a contact mic […]
I made this video at the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College in July, 2023. The exercise, designed by Dayna McLeod, had a list of parameters with the aim of reorienting participants with their media object(s) for use in the workshop, particularly with regards to sound. Details about the exercise can be found […]
