Kismet Arts Tangent

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.

ASMR: Rainbow on Wood Part Two of Two – YouTube.

I’m using After Effects and Premier Pro to process these videos. I love the colors and the reflection. It’s not a perfect reflection, but I was experimenting. If the reflection is not perfection, does that keep people focused on the video in This video captures a part of my process for how I finished the wood-quote. Rainbow Quote Engraved in Wood | MakerKat.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: whispered gibberish, the whirring of a computer, sounds of polishing wood, spoken word where I explain things I love about the world, starting with nature.

ASMR: Rainbow on Wood Part One of Two – YouTube.

When I first started doing these videos, I was very into a long spree of creativity and I should have blogged along the way, but I was definitely in a mode that I had not encountered before. Suddenly, I had time and space to play for most of the day. This is the product of such times.

In a way, the videos became my surrogate blog. Encrypted messages of how I spent my time. In this video, the first time I developed the colorama filter and used reflective symmetry to create a psychedelic effect. I like the face paint. I’ve been developing a face-painting ritual. It helps me get into the spirit of creativity. It’s like wearing special unique clothing that helps differentiate the days. Each day is unique.

This video captures a part of my process for how I finished the wood-quote. Rainbow Quote Engraved in Wood | MakerKat.

The audio

Recorded on a 3Dio Freespace Pro Binaural Microphone: whispered gibberish, the whirring of a computer, sounds of peeling tape off of wood, spoken word where I explain more of my process of making the wood-quote.