From Silly Symphonies to . . .

2007-11-07T04:13:32+00:00

2007-06-01

From Silly Symphonies to the Harmony Channel is a paper about visual music I wrote for a conference at Kunshan University in Tainan, Taiwan. The paper was published in a book of the conference proceedings. The title of the conference was “Visual Realization of Image and Sound.” <img src="http://208.75.85.218/uploads/assets/global/0000/0229/Conference.jpg" alt="" /> 19 From-Silly-Symphonies-to

2007-11-19T04:28:30+00:00

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2007-10-25T03:44:17+00:00

2005-03-01

Video with ultra-titles, approximately 60:00, color Eric Moe ’ s, Tri-Stan, is a sit-trag/concert monodrama for mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger and ten players. The project is a setting of “ Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko ” by David Foster Wallace, a piece of short fiction from his collection, Brief interviews with Hideous Men, an updated retelling of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Classical myths are recombined and imbedded in a matrix of mass-media and high culture: 1980 ’ s-TV meets grand opera – the Brady Bunch goes to The Ring. I created almost an hour of video with ultra-titles which I controlled live for the 2005 concert performances that took place at Bellefield Hall, Pittsburgh, PA; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Merkin Hall, New York City. Link to Eric Moe’s site: <a href="http://www.ericmoe.net">www.ericmoe.net</a> 12 Tri-Stan

Tri-Stan

2007-11-18T16:33:36+00:00

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2007-10-26T21:52:42+00:00

2003-01-01

The Queen of Diamonds Video, 3:45, 2002 The Queen of Hearts Video, 3:45, 2002 Through the manipulation of surface, color, composition, and rhythm of sound and image, Her Royal Majesty plays with spectacles of imaginary histories and mythologies of stardom. There is something poignant (the price women pay for power), and at the same time hilarious (costumes, sets, campy acting), about Hollywood’s 1930’s movies about “historical” queens. These are the first two parts of a four-part suite. The four films in the suite are Cleopatra (1934), Queen Christina (1933), Scarlet Empress (1934), and Marie Antoinette (1938). <img src="http://208.75.85.218/uploads/assets/global/0000/0193/RoyalInstallPCA.jpg" alt="" /> These videos were part of a two-channel video installation in the 2003 Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. 16 Her-Royal-Majesty-Parts-1---2

Her Royal Majesty Parts 1 & 2

2007-11-02T02:21:12+00:00

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2007-10-26T21:54:14+00:00

2001-01-01

2:30, color/bw, mono Love is an obsession. Pop culture is filled with love songs. What can the musical expression of the word “love” mean? Here, one of the great pop vocalists of the twentieth century, Peggy Lee, sings us some clues. 17 Peggy-Love-One-Oh-One

Peggy Love One-Oh-One

2007-12-02T17:29:14+00:00

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2007-10-26T21:48:21+00:00

1998-06-01

Video, 19:00, color, stereo An experimental video and audio collage in four acts. Performing in various guises, the “hero” (as performed by Suzie Silver) embarks on a cinematic quest for the magnificence – and the horror – of desire and pleasure. Adventure into glamour through cheesy effects. The viewer bears witness to the clamorous projections of the protagonist’s fantasy world. And while you’re at it, name those stars! Distributed by the Video Data Bank <a href="http://www.vdb.org">www.vdb.org</a> 15 The-Look-of-Love--A-Gothic-Romance

The Look of Love: A Gothic Romance

2007-11-28T03:31:36+00:00

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2007-10-26T14:50:23+00:00

1993-01-01

Video, 11:00 color/bw, stereo Silver directs and performs all the roles in this raucous and hilarious music video rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Freebird, the infamous Southern rock anthem for an entire generation of 1970s male youth. In this spoof of straight mass culture, Silver flips ironically between roles; from a lesbian proudly proclaiming her sexuality at the Academy Awards, to an in-concert Coors-drinking Ronnie Van Zant, and, finally, to a black-lace lesbian lounge swinger celebrating the wild, colorful world of “out” visibility. Silver draws upon an amazing array of found footage and special effects to bend genders and genres with spectacular visual delight. Distributed by the Video Data Bank <a href="http://www.vdb.org">www.vdb.org</a> 14 Freebird

Freebird

2007-11-02T04:22:32+00:00

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2007-10-26T14:41:48+00:00

1992-01-01

Video, 4:35, color/mono Performance: Hester Reeve Video: Suzie Silver A Spy: Hester Reeve Does The Doors is a gender-bending and thought-provoking mixture of pure visual pleasure with humorous and unsettling undercurrents. As Reeve lip-syncs to a Doors’ song (“I am a spy in the house of love. I know the dream that you’re dreaming of, I know your deepest secret fear…”), we see a new manifestation of Jesus walking in a video field of pulsing rainbows, amoebic forms, and B-movie girls in black panties—suggesting the desires we hide from ourselves and others. The video is based on a performance created and performed by Hester Reeve, March 8 & 9, 1991 at Club Lower Links, Chicago, for the program, Bait and Switch: At Night Every Girl Is A Boy (organized by Iris Moore and Suzie Silver). Distributed by the Video Data Bank <a href="http://www.vdb.org">www.vdb.org</a> 13 A-Spy--Hester-Reeve-Does-The-Doors

A Spy: Hester Reeve Does The Doors

2007-11-02T04:21:51+00:00

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2007-10-24T03:25:43+00:00

1988-05-01

Video, 28:00, color/stereo Produced in collaboration with Lawrence Steger A convent fantasy, the kind common among veterans of Catholic girls schools is acted out in a series of stylized vignettes. The repressed returns, leading to forbidden thoughts, restless nights, meaningful glances, confessions, ardent embraces – and worse. 11 Peccatum-Mutum

Peccatum Mutum

2007-11-05T03:31:27+00:00

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2007-11-02T03:13:08+00:00

For the past couple of years I’ve had sporadic forays into mixing music and live visuals (sometimes just visuals) for various dance party events. It all started in 2005 when Nick Muellner invited me to dj/vj a dance party for a symposium about 1968 at Ithaca College in April 2005. I also performed 1968 (remix) at the Andy Warhol Museum, in Pittsburgh, in September of 2005. In February 2006 I mixed visuals for DJ Edgar Um at a party in celebration of the Pittsburgh Dance Council during a visit by the Joffrey Ballet. For these early events I just sequenced the music using iTunes (ouch, some messy transitions) and used Modul8, a V4 Mixer, and a couple of DVD players for the visuals (a mix of appropriated clips, homemade animations, and video I shot myself). April 2007 saw the premiere of silvertron and my I Heart Robots: A Spacedelic Dance Party at Christopher Sperandio’s, <a href="http://www.yourenotthebossofme.info"target="_blank">YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME: Copyright and Transgression Festival</a>. This is a Sci-Fi/Space Age/Cosmic video dance party. The styles of music getting into the mix include: Space Disco, Kosmische Musik, Motorik, Cosmic Afro Funk, Dub, Electro, nu-Disco, Italo, and a bunch of other terms that mean everything and nothing. Basically music that gets the body moving, the head spinning and the spirit soaring is okay by me. I’ve begun digital djing with Traktor DJ and my live visuals toolbox has expanded to include VDMX5 and Max/MSP/Jitter. I Heart Robots was reprised twice in 2008. In April at the MFA opening celebration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in May at the opening of the Pittsburgh Biennial at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. I seem to be on hiatus in Arizona this year. However many of the techniques and ideas I was developing/exploring have found their way into my collaborative interactive media performance project with Hilary Harp, Fruit Machine. 18 silvertron

silvertron

2009-02-01T18:08:15+00:00

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