Media Composing & Music.
For the work - we attempted to use the raw, deconstructed mechanics of advertising and present a new ‘Third Mind’ work to quote William Burroughs.
The continuous audio-loop a bottom of page was created by sourcing, then stripping old TV commercials of their voiceovers, and using these isolated pre-recorded scripts, to then re-narrate this new work, and then develipin and creating a new score around these found elements. I was heavily Inspired by three works; Nam June Paik’s Global Grove, Mark Fishers writing on Hauntology, and Nick Ralph and Oliver Payne’s mesmerizing Terry Riley Motown cutup “You're No Good,” These works play with ideas of autheticity, sampling, and in the case of Fishers work, the
This idea of cut-ups was further explored in subsequent Python and CS tools that i built, leading me to turn my own writing into a transcription project where I leveraged Kraken and ImageMagick to transform my stream of conciousness calligraphic diary into a custom machine learning model
AudioInstallation
AudioInstallation
AudioInstallation
AudioInstallation
Saam Farahmand‘s installation God Party is a series of looped films merging into a 'mega-loop,' each new segment seamlessly joining with the last. The films were all shot in the Warner Brothers Studio Backlot in 2018, with a giant, ambitiously designed robotic rig (the 'Titan-X', built for the making of this piece before being retired for its complexity). After two years in postproduction, God Party is now presented as a high resolution LED wall installation.
Having waited over a decade for technology to catch up to the scale of his ambition, Farahmand was able to move the camera through the environment with uncompromising control and precise repetition.Saam Farahmand, Iranian-British video artist and film maker, was born in 1979, the year of the Iranian revolution. Farahmand took the same Goldsmiths Fine Art course as several Turner Prize winners including Steve McQueen. He worked predominantly as a video artist and was selected by Bloomberg's New Contemporaries, before transitioning fully into pop culture and becoming the first director of color to win 'Best Director' at the MVA's in the UK and being named 'one of the most influential music video directors of his generation' by The Guardian and Times magazine.
He has worked with artists such as Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, M.I.A., Mark Ronson, late rapper Juice Wrld, and the late designer Lee (Alexander) McQueen, whom he encouraged to make his first narrative film before his untimely passing.
Having waited over a decade for technology to catch up to the scale of his ambition, Farahmand was able to move the camera through the environment with uncompromising control and precise repetition.Saam Farahmand, Iranian-British video artist and film maker, was born in 1979, the year of the Iranian revolution. Farahmand took the same Goldsmiths Fine Art course as several Turner Prize winners including Steve McQueen. He worked predominantly as a video artist and was selected by Bloomberg's New Contemporaries, before transitioning fully into pop culture and becoming the first director of color to win 'Best Director' at the MVA's in the UK and being named 'one of the most influential music video directors of his generation' by The Guardian and Times magazine.
He has worked with artists such as Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, M.I.A., Mark Ronson, late rapper Juice Wrld, and the late designer Lee (Alexander) McQueen, whom he encouraged to make his first narrative film before his untimely passing.
Recording Session with guitars and EMS “Toilet Seat” 1972 Guitar effects unit.