Kismet Arts Tangent

ASMR: Prismatic Ventricles Present The Profound Poem longform [binaural] – YouTube.

Layered the Profound Poem with some recordings I got from Concrete WA. At some point I slow down and reverse one of the tracks. The rattle of an electronic snake is eerie.

This is the first video where I realized that all of the media that I scrape from the world, my instragrams and photographs of scenery could be plopped into the video that I’m working on. So, now when I go outside if something strikes my fancy, I already know it will have a home in one of these strange videos.

The video with the profound poem was broken up and remixed. But the original is quite striking in its Dada-ist approach to poem making.

ASMR: Prismatic Ventricles Present The Profound Poem – YouTube.

Prismatic Ventricles– From the great trio, another excellent mix.  This one has some clips from my trip to a place called Concrete, WA. A road trip filled with natural vistas. I like this video because of the insets. You can see each one of us having so much fun at this recording session.

ASMR: Samples from Concrete – YouTube.

Samples. At a Goodwill in Everett, I found an oversized rosary, a wreath and a rattle. In Concrete, WA I found a park with a pile of sticks and recrorded.  I pet a oversized rosary with a Mexican 5 pronged flogger rattle. Underlying sounds of water, tapping and stuff.

ASMR: Josh and Melanie Session- Without Listening – YouTube.

On a Monday night, Squirrel and Echo came over and recorded stuff with me. We put the microphone and iPhone on the table and recorded audio and visual of what we were doing. We painted our faces and danced around the binaural microphone with tracing paper on our feet or a bottle of water or anything we had lying around that could make a sound.

For a portion of it, the Profound Poem was created where Squirrel read random phrases from a book and Slick and Echo improvised on the words brought out.

We also used a contact mike to hear the sounds of salad dressing shook up, the sound of soft tomato flesh being cut through and the sounds of our vocal chords up close.

Squirrel generated some interesting and unrecognizable noises with his iPad that he danced with.

I layered the video I collected over itself and reflected and colorama-ed it. I love that feeling when the visual and audio are put together in a similar fashion: overlay.

I put the track together by taking the raw clips and putting them on top of each other and adjusting the volume so that it was in a decent listening range. I started to slap together the audio instead of splicing and repeating it. I like the long cuts.  I like the randomness of the real-time experience where the instincts of the players is raw and our togetherness is still half-formed.

ASMR: The Hand Dance – YouTube.

I went to a studio session where we did hand dancing together and I thought it was so fun, I would do a solo video. Here in the aftermath of the Prismatic Ventricles‘ first recording where we used a contact microphone to hear the sound of a tomato (and strawberry) being sliced.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: whispers, iPad processed sound (Squirrel’s contribution), and crinkled paper, rattles, etc.

ASMR: Zach Session- Everything Falls – YouTube.

This is my first session with someone else. Zach was a helpful and game volunteer. In the video you can see a readiness and a slight anxiety about the project, but we get through it and I think the result is beautiful, honest and strange. I like the facepaint ritual because it helps prepare the subject for the weirdness.

My favorite part: Zach tells us something he hasn’t told anyone else before.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: improvisational beat-box-esque sounds, a self-portrait in facepaint, the recording of an anonymous pianist recording at Volunteer Park during the Pianos in the Parks campaign of Summer 2014 (Home » Pianos in the Parks.)

The audio background reverses towards the middle. 4:11 for the percussion. 4:50 for the piano.  It’s awesome.