jazz video study #3 "i still have you"

Listening has levels of focus, as does what is captured by the camera. We call transitional focus "out of focus", but really during the "blurry period" we are between the selection of what the eye puts together. During the transition, we are in touch with a deepened sense of colour, as when music catches us unawares, with a different sense of harmony, or tone, than we are able to hear at one moment, rather than during another. Or perhaps are able to return to. Later something else will reach us, from the same music.

I'm beginning to sound like Yeats, aren't I.

"i still have you" jazz video study #3, charnie guettel music video #100

"resurgence" jazz video study #2, CG video music video#99

the video studies: pursuing the rhythm of image and tune: while listening to the recording takes, i photograph what i see.

there is a daily evolution of what is happening in the music.

"resurgence"

Twentieth Century Poetry Writing

the jazz video studies show a quality, I think, structurally akin to Robert Creeley's poems. which means, that what I am hearing, to cause the choice of notes, and what I am selecting, when I create a photograph or moving picture sequence, to blend with the notes, is in a continuum with the modern poetry traditions of the twentieth century, from which we write. i become more and more direct.

"no angle, rather a need" jazz video study #1, charnie guettel music video#98

"Thinking About H.D."

H.D. was an imagist poet in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry was spare and reverbrant.

And that is why I am Thinking About H.D.

"the photographer's eye"

a photo shoot of the piano player.

the photograph is a moment chosen by the photographer.

jazz is the player's choice of notes.

"the photographer's eye"

This was a comment received about "APRIL".

Nicolas Sanaa

C'est très chouette ces notes de piano, de la nouvelle à l'ancienne Orléans qui célèbrent avec style ; les frondaisons.

"APRIL" jazz piano with sounds from the neighbourhood

In this composition, I left the birdsong and talk from the neighbours in the mix.

"APRIL"

"going further"

Going further means going further inside. But maybe you have to "leave" some things, to do that.

"going further" CG music video #94"

"going away" CG music video #93

This piece comes from a longer musical sequence recorded April 1, called "Political Conversation". This segment sounded so effervescent and at the same time bluesy, that I called it

"going away".

Expresson: power from within.

The piece "what did you think i said? music video#92 came from a longer musical sequence called

"Expression: power from within"