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This is another sound collage that I made by chopping up audio from 15 different films in the public domain. I cut a minute of audio from each film and stitched them together. Normally when I combine different audio files together in 123Apps, It automatically crossfade between each section to create a seamless experience. This time around I wanted to do something a bit different. Instead of seamless transitions, it's more jarring and abrupt, creating a sense of instability. After creating an initial 15-minute "audio chain", I repeated the process six more times, changing around the order of each movie and using different scenes so as to avoid a predictable structure. Finally, I layered together all seven audio chains in my DAW, adding different effects to each track. If you notice, there's two versions in this post. The main difference between the two is that the second versions features additional effects like backmasking and 3D audio and the volume for each track varies, whereas the first version has equal volume across all tracks.

Here's a list of all of the films I used, in no particular order:

The Big Combo (1955)

The PYX (1973)

Silent Night Bloody Night (1972)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Charade (1963)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Sita Sings The Blues (2008)

Detour (1945)

Carnival of Souls (1963)

Horror Express (1972)

The Last Man On Earth (1964)

The Driller Killer (1979)

D.O.A. (1950)

The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)

The Stranger (1946)

The funny thing is that this whole project was inspired by seeing the Backrooms movie this past weekend with a horror movie club I’m in. Though I am young, I wasn’t too familiar with the Backrooms concept, mainly because I don’t use 4chan. I became aware because YouTuber Blameitonjorge mentioned it in a few videos about Internet lost media. Specifically, people were looking for the original image, which was later revealed to have been taken sometime in 2002 inside the former site of an Oshkosh, Wisconsin furniture store while the then-new tenant was renovating. That image may have inspired the cover image here, which is an edited screenshot of footage I shot at the theater for an upcoming video.

I was honestly shocked at how good it turned, given that movies based on Internet memes and content tend to suck (see 2018’s Slender Man). I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising given that the guy behind the Backrooms short films wrote and directed the film and that A24, which has released some of my favorite films in the last few years, distributed the film. It does fill me with a bit of pride that two of the most successful films this year (this film and another one called Obsession) were done by fellow YouTubers. They even managed to beat The Mandalorian and Grogu at the box office! Anyways, I’m gonna try to write more here. I’ve been going through some life stuff so my output has been limited in the last few months, but hopefully I’ll be able to turn it around as I got a lot of ideas that I need to get out of my head. More to come soon.

This video has been in the works for a year. It's a sort of a sound collage of material recorded primarily in the previous spring. The overall length of the material was about over three hours and features bits of people talking (including my own voice) which I found distracting, so I edited it down to 161 minutes and then to 150 minutes, which I cut up into ten 15-minute parts. I added effects to each section and edited out four seconds featuring the remaining bit of intrusive dialogue. There's still some talking in the final video but it's moreso into the distance so it's not as distracting. At one point, I intended to record an additional 90 minutes of material with the intent of making a four-hour video that loosely followed a theme relating to the four seasons. I may still do that idea as I already have an hour of material recorded sometime last August or September. Some of this material has been used in Elemental Symphonies. Enjoy the soothing sounds of nature.

This is a sound collage piece made from editing together a few opera records from the early 20th century as well as audio from a performance of La Boheme I attended in November. I also recorded audio before the show, which I used in the 2-Hour Night At The Opera House Ambience video. Enjoy the raw analog sounds.

A burst of springtime sunshine in a sea of autumn breeze.

A paralyzing kind of anxiety.

The arrogance of your ass.

Don't you ever get tired of the taste of the bullshit that comes out your mouth.

You'll probably understand the title if you've watched How I Met Your Mother. This was recorded at the shopping mall not far from my current residence about three weeks ago. This video has been in the works since at least last September when I was still living in my old state. I recorded six minutes of audio which eventually turned out to be unusable because you can't hear shit. I even snapped a few photos which ended up in the video. The audio you do hear is less than 30 minutes of material because the rest of it was unusable. Since these videos are usually an hour or more, this wasn't gonna cut it, so I looped the audio and added some effects. I could have gone and recorded some more audio, but considering it's already been a month since the last video, not to mention I didn't feel like going back to the mall, so I decided to just get it out of the way. Even with the loop, this is still the shortest video in this series.

I made the visuals by snapping a bunch of photos, then wilting it down to the 18 used for the frames. I then altered the images through Photoshop by firstly applying either a duotone or a tritone filter over the images before applying a comic panel-styled filter. I was going for a bright Warhol-esque pop art look. Finally, I made a 90-second slideshow which I looped until it became 90 minutes instead. Then I sped it up to five and a half minutes giving it a gif-like look before looping the footage. I then added a parasol transition effect at the start and end of the video in WeVideo before exporting it. I finally combined the audio with the footage in my other video editor program. Like the last two videos, this one is presented in a widescreen format, probably because it makes it look more cinematic. I finally created the thumbnail by assembling the frames in a technicolored collage in Photoshop, merged the layers together, and added the titles and main image on top of it.

The length of the video was influx for awhile. I was initially going for about an hour long video; in fact when I recorded those initial six minutes of audio, it was intended to be longer but I somewhere else I had to be. Fast forward four months later, I recorded an hour worth of audio, with the intent of recording more at another mall, but the second mall turned out to be merely a plaza at the local university and the resulting audio was too similar to 2-Hour Reflection Ambience so I discarded it. Still keen on making it 2 hours, I opted for loop the audio have into 2 hours but as mentioned before, upon listening to it, I realized that I only had 29 minutes worth of usable audio so I trimmed it and then loop that small portion till it was just under 2 hours. Then the video's file size became too large, so I decided to cut the middle loops out of video. I specifically excise the middle portion because I wanted to retain the bookended transition. But anyway, the video is out now in all its pop art glory. Enjoy hearing all the shopping that's goes on. Is this video a glorification of what's basically a personification of our hyper consumerist society or a critique of it. You decide. More to come soon.

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A combination of four different recordings at three different libraries in two different states, this is perfect for reading and studying in solitude.

Imagine, if you will, you’re a low-life loser living on the fringes of society. No matter how hard you try to move on with your life, your past is constantly haunting your psyche. You decide to go take a walk to clear your conscience, leaving the dark and drab place you call home behind. As you walk down the dark shadowy alleys of 41th Noirvember Street, you let the sounds of the city take hold…

This is a 2-hour film noir-themed ambience video featuring some early 20th century jazz tunes and snippets from a few noir films. It builds upon ideas I'd explored on 66-Minute Graveyard Ambience and 2-Hour Reflection City Ambience. The video is named after the unofficial global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre. Film noir itself is a cinematic term used primarily to describe a number of stylish Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Awashed with a unique low-key, monochromatic visual style that has roots in German expressionist cinematography, these films derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction.

The footage was filmed downtown at around 8 or 9 PM at night. I specifically chose these locations because it reminded me of the opening city scene in Sweet Smell of Success (1957). I then applied a monochrome filter over the footage. I was very keen on achieving the chiaroscuro look of many a classic film noir so I played around with shadows and contrasts. Finally, I slowed down the footage to create a series of mostly static continuous shots. Influenced by Brian Eno's ambient video paintings, the images slowly move forward, creating an immersive time-delay atmosphere. Originally shot in 16:9, the video is presented in the 4:3 format.

The video was originally going to be accompanied with a synth and Mellotron-driven score, but I was unsatisfied with the results so I discarded it. I then decided to structure the video around a series of jazz and blues numbers from the likes of Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson, digitally processed and altered with echo and tremolo effects. The intent was to make it sound like you were listening to these songs on an old timey radio. I was influenced by The Caretaker's practice of sampling and editing big band records. Interspersed between the songs are audio snippets of several public domain film noirs like Scarlet Street (1945), Detour (1945), and The Big Combo (1955). I also added a previously unused soundscape built out of several versions of 1-Hour Highway Ambience to create the illusion of a bustling urban cityscape.

This is a 13-minute experimental ambient video painting that was shot in an actual graveyard at around 1PM in the afternoon. I then edited the footage in Premiere Pro, using effects like noise and film grain to give it an old fashioned film look, though I also wanted to mask the cemetery's total lack of spookiness. I also played around exposure and light to increase the shadows in an effort to make it spookier. I was influenced by the use of shadows in German expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and the original Nosferatu (1922). After that, I saved and subsequently upload the footage to WeVideo to do some further editing. Simultaneously inspired by Halloween's association with the colors orange and purple and the look of early cinema, I put a variety of color filters on the frames and effects like saturation and tint to give it a little mix of warm and cool tones. Finally, I cut up the footage and rearranged it in a random order. Afterwards, I add a slow fade between each section in an attempt to disguise my amateurish camerawork. If you're a regular viewer, you'll realize that the footage became the basis for the 66-Minute Graveyard Ambience video, so this video is a companion to that.

The interesting thing about the accompany soundscape is that I made it by filtering a composted version of the Gilderjet soundtrack through a low frequency filter on AudioLab, which gave it a low-pitched, rumbling sound. It had this dark and desolate feeling that was transfixing. It's the spark that birthed this project. I further built upon it with layers of Mellotron and synthesizer, as well the usual effects. I originally wanted to add in horror movie samples before I dropped. I did eventually include them in the companion video.

Elemental Symphonies is an EP/mini-album that comprises a four-part suite based on the classical elements: water, fire, earth, and air. As the title implies, I was very much inspired by orchestral symphonies like Dvorak's New World Symphony and Holst's The Planets. I chose the classical elements because I thought it'd be cool to try to represent them through music. Plus, I'm a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, having grown up with the show, so that may also have informed my creative process. I must admit that this suite isn't entirely ambient, there's elements of drone metal, post-rock, musique concerte woven through the tapestry of the music.

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