VJ – Noche De Los Libros

VJ – Noche De Los Libros

3 hour video of book-related visuals, made to accompany a literary DJ set in a local bookshop.

Clione, a kind of sea angel

Clione, a kind of sea angel

One day back in 2015, surfing the web, I saw someone mention their favourite animal was Clione. I didn’t know what they were, so I looked at some videos of them, and I found them mesmerising. When you search the name of an animal on Youtube, there are usually entire video essays about them, or at least clips from TV nature programmes, but that wasn’t the case with Clione in 2015. Perhaps because they are tiny (under 5cm), they are hard to find and record, and maybe not enough is known to say much about them. Whatever the reason, all I could find at the time were scattered short clips, each extremely simple but with a distinct feel. In order to admire these bizarre creatures and videos more seamlessly, I made a little video compilation of them. Somehow, it has accumulated around 50 thousand views to date. The third season of Planet Earth, the gorgeous BBC documentary, contains the best footage I have seen of this creature, and finally a little bit more context. Check it out if you get the chance.

Down To Earth

Down To Earth

Down To Earth (03h03m, 2023) is a ghostly 3 hour music playlist and virtual walk made in collaboration with my friend Fran. The idea for it came during the coronavirus pandemic and we worked occasionally on it for a couple years. It blends footage from a walk in the woods with itself, and an increasing variety of movies and abstract video sources. The music and visuals are meant to lead and follow the walker/viewer’s state of mind into intricate patterns. It can be watched attentively and passively; in sequence, at random or on loop. It can be an avenue for contemplation or just a noise in the background. 

Choice Moods

Choice Moods

Choice Moods (2018-20XX) is an ongoing series of sound and video loop experiments. It is recommended to set the playback to loop (right-click on the video) and sit with it for at least a few loops. The basic idea came from hearing little bits of songs (intros, fills, flourishes) and just… wishing they would go on for longer. Dropping those songs into Audacity and making that a reality produced an eerie result. On one hand, there was a deep satisfaction at the existence of the desired outcome, but on the other hand, there was something troubling; a song that never starts, a conflict that never resolves, the friction of what was, what should be, and what is. Modifying the loops further with effects, echoes and pitch changes is an attempt to dig further into that feeling, and melt into the endless embrace of the loop. The accompanying videos try to locate moments of life that feel similarly; a glimpse of a plane overhead, the falling leaf, ripples in a stream. Can the beauty of of a joyous blink of a fraction of a second be captured, extended, re-lived? Should it be?

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