Music for shredders and prepared chord organs

A small test of a new work in progress, Winter 2013. Shredders and prepared chord organs controlled with dmx lighting equipment.

Sonny’s Car

I started this work while in residence at Yaddo, March and April of 2012.

Sonny was a maintenance and grounds keeper at Yaddo for years and when he left he left this car.
I came across it while walking through the woods tracking the light and searching for locations. In the passenger seat among so many other things was a box of porcelain and corelle plates and cups. Sonny’s old ford might be considered an eye sore as this late 70′s working class boat reared it’s thick steel body into the pastoral and immaculate grounds of Yaddo.

Every sound you hear was captured during the event- there are no added instruments and no layering of sounds- just the sounds of Sonny’s china breaking. The only manipulation is through speed.

How it’s made:
Recorded on a Red One at 2K resolution on two separate days between 1PM and 2PM.
Audio was captured using two microphones in M / S stereo configuration passed through a tube pre amp and into a flash recorder.

Music for Teacups [samples]

2012 by David Colagiovanni and Melissa Haviland
Shot on RED, Stereo Audio

Drums/Brushes/Cups/Sticks/Irons

2011, 2k video, stereo sound. Recorded on a Spring evening in 2011 with David McConnell.

Corelle

2010 by David Colagiovanni and Melissa Haviland.
2k video, Stereo sound, Shot on RED.

Music for New Mexico

2010, 2K video, stereo sound. Shot on Red.
by David Colagiovanni & Melissa Haviland 
shot in Carson, New Mexico in the late summer of 2010.

Oakland, October 25th

2011, Hand-drawn animation
A short hand drawn rotoscoped animation depicting Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen after he was wounded by a non/less-lethal round by riot police on October 25, 2011 at 14th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland.
The original video comes from Ali Winston a reporter for KALW 91.7 FM.