Music From The Other Room
Multimedia lab experimenting with image and sound. We try to do things as they are not supposed to be done.
This episode of The White Whale continues interrogating the films and dives into Garrett's history to learn more about what shapes the current work. Shifting from Jurassic Park to Fellini to the music video for Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', this episodes shapes context and provides valuable considerations for The Yōkai Trilogy's visual layout possible.
This episode turns the tables as John interviews Garrett about making the films. Discussion shifts from the films to previous work such as Trickery Mimicry and Public as a turn back tot he topic at hand.
This episode of The White Whale winds things down. Concluding Funayūrei's making, John brings us to the guest in his room uninvited and the curious happenings around the finality of the trilogy. It's an ending in a beginning.
This episode of The White Whale goes deeper into the dreams and strange happenings of Funayūrei's making. John starts having vivid dreams that lead him down a rabbit hole to Christopher Hitchens and eventually playing material for a girl who throws up in his guest room.
This episode takes an interesting turn to the Titanic as we set up the weird arrivals of Funayūrei's ghosts.
This episode of The White Whale returns looks at how one develops an openness with creativity and thinking outside the box of art. Where do we get our ideas? How do we accept our voice and interpretation if the surrounding thoughts counter it as correct? Why does it matter that you find your own road?
This episode returns to ELpH through John Cage and preparing pianos. Most of all the records, Funayūrei is built on reconfiguring by machines.
This episode dives into the "choose your own adventure" element to The Yōkai Trilogy's production as we move closer to Funayūrei and an eventual descent into the videos that came about as a result of this music.
This episode involves videos games and EVPs - their existence and use value in the sounds of ghost stories - as conversation begins to address the films ever more.
This episode starts addressing the films and how they evolved the way John saw the music. The coincidences of construction keep building onto this new narrative, creating ripples in how everyone can interpret the work.
This episode shifts to Funayūrei, third and final album in The Yōkai Trilogy; initiating discussion of the third album while also previewing tracks from the upcoming release.
This episode speaks thoroughly to the inspirations and compositional aesthetic of Hikikomori. Made up of inorganic instruments, John also speaks to mixes derived by machines rather than him alone.
This episode goes further into what it is to be Hikikomori and and why John's second record of the trilogy doesn't have a single organic instrument on it.
This episode briefly introduces Hikikomori and the story behind John's second record in the trilogy.
This episode looks at the classics by James, Poe, and Hawthorne to examine how limiting their structures of storytelling have become. For the modern day ghost story Aokigahara is much more than a name for a first record, but a conduit to ideas that may in fact bring us out of history.
This episode looks at how sound running backwards and listening out of order became significant conduits to composition. "Start anywhere, go anywhere, and do anything" as John says. Being a decider of your own experience shapes your context.
So begins conversation of The Yōkai Trilogy, its origins in ghost stories, and the desire to tell something different - first with the written word and then without.
This episode of The White Whale offers a preview of season 1, which aims to thoroughly consider The Yōkai Trilogy - an art collaborative between John R. Barner and Garrett D. Tiedemann where John supplies the music and Garrett the visuals. The project has been happening for more than a year and a half with the support of CyNar Pictures and American Residue Records. Final record in the trilogy and set of films are due for release soon.
What is the key to The White Whale? How do we find an origin point? Has it already happened?
"When men have died they enter history. When statues have died they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture" -Alain Resnais
When you record, things can go wrong, but not all is lost.