After spending a good 20 years creating behind a computer, I have the incessant urge to move and express myself.
Here I'm responding (this is not dancing, nor is it a performance) to the music I love/resonate with. I capture the 'Expression/Exudence/Emanation' on video, when it can be further processed and displayed as a performance. It becomes a performance when shared. Chiefly, the intention is to express and process the feedback.
Elements like; Timing, space, environment are parameters to play off/with.
Such practice and process in action is a ubiquitous wellbeing exercise.
Creative Health
Physical Exercise
Self Understanding
Mental Health
Trauma Responsive
Self Healing
Some expressive movement to music. Digital video experimentation.
I dont know the track. It was something someone was playing at the time.
I liked the double vision effect I got from the grate/fence in the back of the shot.
One instance fell on the grate and another on the wall behind, slightly offset.
Electronic music is emotive. Some of my favourite tracks are atmospheric and have a foreboding darkness to them. Others are light and whimsical. I like to interpret the tracks through language of movement.
Such expression is a self-compassionate response at the start (sympathetically fulfilling the desire to move). Being in the moment, this is real time storytelling via a spontaneous and embodied response to the music. It is a flow form and each pose melds into the next. Each element gives relevance, context and a meaning that is felt and outwardly expressed.
I find this process and practice direct and responsive.
Which allows the deeper self-exploration of authorship, authenticity and vulnerability.
Then, a post-processing stage takes place using the captured footage.
This process is to further stylise and compose the sequence.
Some effects I use include; delays, offsets, overlays, masking, mattes, Animation / Motion graphics, strobe and light leak effects, sound driven keyframes, timeline scrubbing.