NEW YOUTUBE VID

I recently logged onto youtube and it advised I make a one minute introduction video, so I did. It was a great excercise and will hopefully get easier. 

Databent images by me.

I would like to talk about the way making these helps you connect to Art and Drawing.

To many distractions

This is either the worst diary or just unfocussed. What ever the case I will not stop just yet as I continue to make work and wrestle with a life of distraction. Recently I have done some experimenting with cross prossing colour film in black and white developer. I figured that I would probably never get around to developing them properly or use the out of date chems lying around my studio. So like many people I have that box of mystery negs that keeps growing. I grabbed a random role film and cracked it open and prepared for developing, not knowing what I was potentially destroying. It always makes me so nervous when I have my hands inside the dark bag fondling around with scissors and those anoying film holders. I sweat, nose itch and generally feel anxious. Another issue arised once the film was all loaded. I started mixing up all the chemicals and did a little research into temperatures. I grabbed out the thermometer and remembered that it is broken. Somehow the mercury inside had seperated making it imposible to get an accurate reading. I figured that wasn't a huge deal sinde it was already well over 40 degree celcius in the studio so I made guess that it probably about 7 degrees out. I got a bucket of icewater and set temperature as good as I could. Anyway the end result is that it worked! And the role of film was from a trip made to the Daintree about 2 years prior, with images of jungles, palms, beaches etc. I am not sure how this relates to my greater Art practice and I dont really care to much. The excitement of making and discovering makes it seem as valid as anything I have done.

A couple of Images from 2 Gigs Last Year

A colaborative Performance at Loop Bar with Cameron Brew
on the 29th of November 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.



Me Performing at Loop Bar on the 25th of October 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.

These are 2 gigs I’ve played recently. I was asked to play a gig on the 25th of October last year which was 1 day after I returned from a trip to Cairns. Just before I left to go, I had been playing around making tape loops and sampling them. What I was using was the high frequencies and hisses from the tape and modulating the sounds using a combination of filters to manipulate the texture of the sounds, creating a howling gale and moaning soundscape. I went from being in the Daintree Rainforest to performing in a bar in Melbourne in a day.

The second performance was a colaborative experiment with Cameron Brew. We had performed earlier in the year at the Library Art Space in North Fitzroy. Cameron had been talking about the ceremonial aspect of performing. For this second performance I had taken several samples from found vinyl records from a Japanese Temple and another of Buddhist Chanting and manipulated them live layering, reversing and filtering them. Cameron played using a feedback loop through a mixer using the mixers Aux sends to add distortion and delay.

I will be uploading the recordings from the gigs and putting them on the music page soon. I would like to thank Shane Reynolds for taking photo's and recording these events!!

Update for another show I had last year

Untitled Time Experiment,
Wax, Video, PSP, Black Spay Paint, Found Wood, Silver Tape,
Dwarft Gallery, November 2010.

This is an image from a show I had in November 2010. The gallery space is called Dwaft and is located outside the Victoria College of the Arts on a brick wall. It was being run by a Friend who was doing their Honours Degree at the time. I was asked to install in the space and little time to make a new work.

Way back in 2005 I believe, I was in the first year of my Fine Arts Degree. I made a work that was supposed to be a kind of shrine to the mundane. I lined up 200 tea light candles along a foot path in front of a brick wall. The work was documented using a video camera. It was a failure, and the resulting video became a kind of homage to this failure and the idleness of "hanging out", with footage of friends trying to light the candles in the wind, snippets of conversation about nothing in particular and jumping around in front of the camera. 

So when I was asked to do a work directly opposite this place; a site, which for me, was loaded with feelings failure and mischief, it seemed logical to try and connect with the past work and make a new resolution. I was thinking about it like a glitch in time, where the past and present collide, invoking Deja Vu.

The candles from the previous work, were in the shed in an old biscuit tin, melted together making one large block of wax, the individual forms of each candle still clearly recognisable. This object had to be used. I had to give this thing meaning.

The video was played on a small screen, which I initially wanted to insert into the wax. I quickly dismissed this as an option, the process of carving out a cavity in this already significant object felt like desecration. It was a complete object that did not need to be altered or added to. So I had to work out how to incorporate this tiny video work. The video needed to be there to help pull the past forward, giving the candles context.

You can see the outcome in the picture although it is fairly low quality. Here are a couple of images to give you a better idea of the video.

It has been far too long!!

It has been far to long since I have written anything for my blog. That being said of course I have an excuse and it's the same excuse I will use to explain why I will keep this one short and write a more in depth article in the near future as I have lots to talk about!!

I have started using a blog that a friend and I started earlier this year that I wish to push out there a bit more called Alien Space Probe. It contains other articles of interest all around the theme of arty stuff. I know there are millions of sites out there like this but this one will be unique in that hopefully it will contain material specific to my piers and self's interests as vast as they are. So book mark it!!!

I have had a few gigs recently as well!!! I look forward to discussing them. the most recent was on Monday and was a collaboration.

And another Big thing has been my purchase of a audio recorder, Zoom H1. Initially just as a Dictaphone and now it has sparked a new project which requires some discussion too.

So I look forward to talking soon and hope you enjoy the journey.

Marcel

Time for August Ambience

This is a New Track I made this evening inspired by some good headphones and being full of Thai food. It was all made using my trusty MPC 2000 classic and 3 short samples.

August Ambient by mwallus01

Psychopompistic Ballistic

This is the title of my new show that will be opening on the 9th of July at Kings ARI. I will be performing on the opening evening inside the installation. I will go into more detail closer to the date.

TRACK a week IS going STRONG!

Yep another Wednesday's end and another track on music.feillafe.com. I was just listening to the new track I uploaded and hit play on another track at the same time. It sounds pretty good, well you can try it for yourself.

Making a Track a week or at least posting a new track every week is an interesting project to undergo. There's no doubt that its a kind of falseness that means a track can go up even if it is not "complete". What is gained by this definitely out weighs the negatives, and that is a connection to the making or process without excessive and sometimes counter productive reflection, and a way of seeing a Narrative or "Greater Picture" of the work; Perspective. This may sound as though I am talking about just myself, but it is not the intention, this format of publishing a track every week is also being done to share with others.

Maybe no one listens to these tracks but it is the act of "putting it out there" that has significance. This topic is something that should be discussed. "Putting it Out There" means so many things to the person revealing themselves to the world. It can be; scary, fun, intimidating, satisfying, and even enlightening. Just having the courage to have a voice, even if you need to do it in the dark like this is, makes the work have meaning and value outside of whatever you think about yourself.

First Post

This site is going to be as a way to keep up to date with the projects I'm working on and archive them. It will contain Images and Video's and small pieces of Text. It will be placed within a Sub domain as part of my main site, which has a slightly different purpose, to act as an online CV. This section will be accessible to people from my website, but is more to generate discussion and a space to comment on works. The kind of content you will vary from, Visual Arts to Experimental Music. So perhaps you could think of this as a space for creative peers.