Here is a collection of videos produced to accompany my own musical compositions. Most of these were entries to the annual Cortland Community Arts Challenge, which is presented at the Homer Center for the Arts, in Homer, New York.
Produced for the Cortland Community Arts Challenge 2024 competition around the theme of "connections." It uses the connections of roads to fulfill a need (running out of whipped cream for strawberries), and the rush to get more while the berries are sitting there waiting to be enjoyed. The video accompanies an original musical composition, "Hot July Road."
Footage was filmed using a DJI Mini Pro 4 drone, along with a couple of shots filmed with a DJI Action camera.
Pottery combines the classical elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, spun by the potter from the center of a potting wheel into a thing of beauty. Liz Goldenberg, (Among the Wildflowers Art, out of Tully, New York) shares her creative process, from mixing of earth and water through to fire and air that creates the pot. The sound track weaves an eclectic mix of instruments and styles, from Tanzanian zeze (a kind of dulcimer), Ghanaian koro (a kind of harp) and flute, to Tanzanian ohlongo drum and Balinese Gamelan percussion, to traditional western instruments, such as hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel, and strings. into a haunting accompaniment to the video. Thanks also to Clayscapes Pottery of Syracuse, who allowed us to film at their annual Raku Day firing in November 2023. This video was entered into the annual Community Arts Challenge hosted by the Homer Center for the Arts in Homer, NY.
It also was given an award of recognition in the 2024 Best Shorts competition. A small thing, really, but still ...
A decrepit church in the middle of the Namib desert has a dark secret: a stained glass window haunted by spirits. On starry nights, these emerge to dance around the church, bending reality, space, and time to a twisted danse macabre of oboe, clarinet and piano.
This is my entry for the 2023 Cortland Community Arts Challenge.
A meditation on Heraclitus's famous dictum: No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and it is not the same man." This duet for piano and viol illustrates Heraclitus's dictum with streams and waterfalls in upstate New York, to a dry riverbed in Namibia experiencing the first flows in two years, to the endless rivers of air in the atmosphere that give us weather, to the eternal change of the sun's daily march through the sky.
"I found Nemo" was inspired by finding some clownfish at the Scripps Aquarium in La Jolla a few years ago. There were also sharks and jellyfish, swimming gracefully through the water. So I composed this piece of music to go with the video.
This is my entry for the 2020 Cortland Community Arts Challenge
This video combines a composition for kalimba, dulcimer and chimes with images of water in all its forms and cycles, all set to a poem by Emily Dickinson "Like rain it sounded till it curved"
A music video of African birds set to one of my musical compositions, titled Foogy: Avia africaba. From strutting guitars to soaring brass, this video captures the elegance of flight. This piece was entered in the Cortland Community Arts Challenge 2018 competition around the theme of "Flight."
For a time, I was tasked as the ad hoc videographer for the Tully Arts Council. One set of videos featured a local group of women, the Full Circle Dance Troupe, who performed at various events in Tully. Another set was documenting an annual performance of a dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller on Hallowe'en.
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