Blocking the Exits, a recent collaboration with video artist Christopher O'Leary, is currently on display as part of the Speculative exhibit at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Here are some brief video excerpts:

Chris asked me to create some music/sound design to accompany his video project, a vision of the apocalypse comprised entirely of still photographs that have been animated through morphing algorithms. It was a pleasure to work with Chris; his images are so evocative that when he showed them to me I had almost immediate sonic "images" come to mind. There's a mesmerizing, disassociative slowness to the progression of images as well, which inspired a similar graduality in the sonic accompaniment. Each musical vignette follows a very simple, drawn-out process from beginning to end (e.g. high to low, sparse to dense, etc.).  Usually when I'm working on a composition I feel compelled to disrupt that kind of process, or complicate it with another process, but in this case it seemed to fit the mood and theme of the project to doggedly pursue it to the bitter end, and to view the apocalpyse not as a bang or a flash or a burst, but as an ongoing, inevitable, eternal moment.

Speculative is on display at LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028) until August 28th.