Healing (a video/music collaboration)

Video: Elspeth Duncan
Soundtrack: Anita Katakkar

A word was chosen at random: Healing
The music was created inspired by the word
The video was created inspired by the music

The Wind (video)

Video - Elspeth Duncan
Voice - Susanne Fritzsche (Creative. Mother. Thinking.)
Music - Gary Winter (Psychedelic Zen Guitar)

Collaborative music/video/spoken word project between Trinidad and Germany.

The video was created first in Trinidad and edited with 'silence' as the soundtrack. Without seeing the video, Susanne (Gary's wife) was asked to say something in English about the wind - 20 seconds in length. This narrative was sent back to me and added to the video which I then sent back to Gary in Germany. He viewed the video and composed the music, which was then sent back to me to edit into the video.

What is interesting is that Susanne had no idea that the location of shooting (Temple in the Sea, Trinidad) is a sacred site. On the shores, Hindu people are cremated outdoors on a large open-air pyre. Listen to her words. They poetically reflect what happens when 'bits' (smoke, ashes) of the cremated person are carried on the wind to the sea around the Temple.

Magic (video)

Video: Elspeth Duncan
Music: Gary Winter
Length: 3:11

The music I used for this video is one of a few mp3s Gary of Psychedelic Zen Guitar had sent me when our first collaboration was underway. The video was shot using the iSight camera on my Macbook, Satya.

We are doing three short collaborations to present to you. Stay tuned for the third one sometime this week. For that one, I also invited Gary's wife, Susanne, of Creative Mother Thinking to take part.

Now showing at a blog near you

Music: Gary Winter
Video: Elspeth Duncan
Length: One minute

Recently a German blogger/musician, Gary, left a comment at Now is Wow and became a regular visitor, leaving frequent comments, which I greatly appreciate. In checking out his blog (and also becoming a regular visitor of/commenter on Psychedelic Zen Guitar), I found his short musical improvisational pieces to be quite simple, experimental and diverse. I asked him if he would like to collaborate by sending me a one minute piece of his music. He said yes and we agreed that this initial collaboration would be 'Step #1'. The result of our combined offerings (music and video) is above.

The collaboration continues now with us inviting you (readers) to come up with a name for the piece. What would you call it?