Based on twenty minutes of an in-studio performance, the result is less the documentation of a concert than a visual improvisation on a musical idea: the radically free approach to making music Ornette Coleman called Harmolodics.
Featuring video on loop and a series of limited edition 36" x 64" (91 x 163cm) prints on canvas.
The final video was created by recording live, improvised, multimedia remixes while listening to the original soundtrack—essentially jamming visually with the musicians twenty years after shooting their performance. The stills are each a single frame from the resulting video piece.
Leaning on Jung's ideas about synchronicity, I hope that even the most abstract of these images convey some of the powerful energy the musicians were creating at the moment they were recorded.
A very special and heartfelt thanks to the musicians: Denardo Coleman on drums; Tony Falanga on bass; and the late great Ornette Coleman on tenor saxophone.
Filmed at Harmolodic Studio, NYC in 2003. Visual remix at A Joyful Process Studio, 2023-24.
A very special and heartfelt thanks to the musicians: Denardo Coleman on drums; Tony Falanga on bass; and the late great Ornette Coleman on tenor saxophone.
Filmed at Harmolodic Studio, NYC in 2003. Visual remix at A Joyful Process Studio, 2023-24.
Installation and live visual performance presented as part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 2024.
