Kismet Arts Tangent

ASMR: Echo and Slick Walk for a While [binaural] – YouTube.

Echo and I take a walk to the University District from Capitol Hill and we chat and muse along the way. Some singing and joking and something about a nose rave. We have a great time laughing together as the cars go by. I play with some collage work of the footage.

These longform recordings are fun. We begin to muse about the audience, start talking to them and being silly is half the fun. The process of making these recordings is fun and casual and the results are lovely, random things.

“Michael Et Cetera”
“Bro-y-bros”
“Better than SlimJims.”
“That’s very sweet and slightly disturbing at the same time. You’re so good at that.”

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: talking for a while on a busy street after a concert overlaid onto itself so that it fills out in some chaotic stream of conversation collage

ASMR: The Last Road Trip of Summer 2014 [binaural] – YouTube.

Sofi, Dmi and I went out on one of our summer photography adventures. This being the last one of its kind– for this summer anyways. We spotted this hollow and I just had to record in it. The light was nice. Found some random sound props in there, including styrofoam and an aluminum can.

List of Sofi adventures:
Wenatchee
Ghost Town of Concrete
Dungeness Spit
Lester
Mercer Island

Audio: whispered gibberish, dried palm fronds hitting things, my favorite rattle, a pinecone, some coins

ASMR: Water Falling Concrete Paradise [binaural] – YouTube.

This was a lovely day. I was early for something and someone was late for something, so I killed time exploring the nearby areas when I came across the FLEUR DE LIS GARDEN ORNAMENTS IN SEATTLE OUTDOOR GARDEN WATER FOUNTAINS (website is sadly not as beautiful as tens of fountains all in one place, but there you have it).

I added some colorama effect to the footage and I love that look, when water looks like fire. When we were picking recording names for Prismatic Ventricles (my experimental recording group) I wanted to be “Rain Falling on Oil Slick.” I think this piece embodies all the beauty I wanted to convey with that name. It warms my artistic heart to fulfill names’ expectations like that.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: the sound unedited of a showroom of a fountain shop

ASMR: Poems about Shapes and Identity – YouTube

After that session with Ladybot bravely writing and then recording a poem she wrote, I decided that writing things down might be a good idea. I was in a Portland coffee shop when I wrote these poems designed for recording and rearrangement. Parts where I repeat myself only to overlay the tracks later so I am harmonizing with myself. I got this amazing scarf at the Portland Goodwill and went to the nearby park and recorded this. Sunlight through the trees is one of my favorite things to get on video. I don’t have to damage my eyes to see that beautiful light.

Regarding poem writing, I enjoy thinking about the shapes of feelings, thoughts and aesthetically encapsulated sentiments. I think that there’s a large amount of poetry in my soul and it’s a wonderful feeling to unleash it onto a page of notebook and then the world.

The geese on the Portland waterway are the results of a process I refer to fondly as “scraping.” It’s when I’m out and about and I see something lovely. I whip out my phone and record some video. I then put the video into my next project. I love having a home for these scrapings. It inspires me to mix together some audio and such and it keeps going in that way, too. Where I have some audio I scraped up and I want more video. Keeping up with myself isn’t easy, but it’s a fun time watching them together and seeing/hearing the juxtaposition of sounds and sights of my life.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: my new flute collection bought at an import store for a total of $26, whispered gibberish, poems I wrote

ASMR: Kitty Blume and Hollow Blind Present Harp and Bubbles – YouTube.

A day of collaboration. I met someone for the first time and recorded some of that interaction. I consider Hollow Blind to be the name of a collaboration group consisting of Noxii and Ladybot and myself. Kitty Blume is an upcoming local writer/cultural figure and friend of mine.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: The first repeat poem is heard here with Kitty Blume and myself. One person repeats the line that was said before and then makes up a new line and so one until “Finito.” Ladybot wrote a poem based off an experience we were continuing to have about “making a track.” Noxii was playing with the distortions of the sound of a drawer slamming (and other things) while I was playing his 22 string celtic harp sideways with some pens loosely attached to rubberbands.

ASMR: Ocean Harp by the River and an Interaction [binaural] – YouTube.

I arrived at Makerhaus. Tory brought his waterphone and I borrowed it and made this recording by the water nearby. A person, curious, came by and chatted me up. I agree with what this youtube comment has to say about that:

“16:36 Also, the guy is such a charmer, ‘You looked very beautiful from far away.’

Towards the end I started to get uncomfortable and I wasn’t even there.”

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: the sound of a waterway in Fremont, a Waterphone provided by Tory, a passerby that unwittingly became a part of a performance.

ASMR: Samples from the Material Library [binaural] – YouTube.

I look back at this as one of my favorite collaborations. Evan, my coworker at the time at the now defunct Makerhaus (closed its doors, quite a shame), and I made this video in the Material Library. A treasure trove of sounds. Evan has some experience in watching ASMR videos, so he took to the project like a seal to a floating buoy.

Adam (one of the Makerhaus members) was working in the library at the time and witnessed this strange choreography, but luckily he was silently amused.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: the clanking of different materials, a Waterphone provided by Tory, a plastic cup with water, a rattle, etc.