My friends and I just finished an elaborate video using a technique called light painting. In ultra-slow motion (4 hours!), Maia Hamann played Bach’s Fugue No. 2 in C minor, while I took long exposure pictures of our friends Oanh, Peter, and Pat “painting” with colored LED lights. I took one photo for every 16th note in the piece, then combined them all stop-motion style.
We picked a Bach fugue for a couple of reasons. One, there would never be more than three notes at a time, so we wouldn’t need more lights. Two, Bach’s music usually has a ton of 16th notes in a row. Three, I had a feeling there would be a free-to-download MIDI version of the song. The one I found (at piano-midi.de) even had the three voices split into separate MIDI tracks. So it was easy to add three distinct synth sounds representing each light.
We made this video for a MNKino video challenge based on the theme “trails,” and it premiered this weekend at the Northern Spark all-night festival in Minneapolis.
Wow that was awesome you guys! Loved it 🙂
that was indeed awesome charlie and the gang. i listened to your original podcast every day while cutting down trees during a trip to australia, and now i’m getting into the production lessons one. awesome, thanks for sharing!
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the pods, John! Best of luck to you in your own composing.