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This is an edit of footage from the 2nd-to-last set of this year's Synaesthesia, on March 29. This set consisted of improvised music by Amy Rude, and improvised video by Steev Hise (me). I was using a software/hardware package called NuVJ, basically a small video mixing controller that has several buttons and knobs and faders, that controls the software, allowing me to manipulate and mix together various video clips stored on the computer. This was the first time I've performed live with this tool, this "video instrument," so I was worried that the software would crash in the middle of the set, but everything went well. Thus we were able to have one part of the Synaesthesia event be almost the opposite of the rest of the night: instead of musicians reacting to pre-made video, I was reacting with video to Amy's music - although her music was also improvised and live, of course.

We had 3 cameras taping at the event. as well as an audio recording from the sound board, so this is a montage of all those, as well as some of the original video clips that I used in the performance. Most of this source material was obtained from the Prelinger Archives, a public domain online collection of "ephemeral films" located at http://archive.org/movies.

I'd love to hear comments about this piece and especially whether a shorter cut of it would be something more viewable. This is uncut in terms of the time duration of the peformance.

Thanks, Amy, for an interesting collaboration!