Kismet Arts Tangent

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.

ASMR: Prismatic Ventricles Production- Experiment 2 [binaural] – YouTube.

Prismatic Ventricles– From the great trio, specifically, a Squirrel composition, a strange good time. I love the youtube comments on this one:

“love it!”
“I… what.”
“Wow this is scary good. Thank you so much!!!!”
“This video is strangely compelling. It’s terrifying, yet I can’t look away.”

This was over a month a ago (I’m late on blogging these things) which makes for an interesting perspective on the project. This was my “cyber-shaman” phase when I thought myself some kind of priestess, wearing body paint and scarves, seeing into the feedback loops of my webcam and finding some truth to shapes and the material of reality.

ASMR: Prismatic Ventricles Production- Secret Hike [binaural] – YouTube.

Prismatic Ventricles– From the great trio, a collage of sounds. Somewhere in there is some clip from the time Echo and I went on a hike. Sometimes, when I am making these vid-tracks, I pull randomly from the vault. It’s a way to remind myself that I built a library for a reason and to use these clips only once seems kind of silly. These tracks are like memories to be relived in new contexts with eyes closed and open.

Visuals: a trip around South Lake Union with an overlay from the previous vid, Experiment 1. I’m in love with the texture of water. It’s relaxing and mysterious.