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?