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First Light by Sounds From The Ground. Part of John Rixon’s “Quiet Voices” show at Tate Britain, January 8th 2010. from mach v on Vimeo.

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In Autumn 2009 I was extremely privileged to be asked to contribute a visual piece to be included in John Rixon’s (a.k.a Amukidi) “Quiet Voices” show at The Tate Britain on January 8th 2010. The music John gave me to interpret was a new piece called “First Light” from Sounds From The Ground (whom I’ve worked with as their VJ for the last 6 years) and is available as a download only release. The footage itself all comes from various national parks in the South West of USA: We start in the Petrified Forest, move on to Canyon de Chelly and the final scene is from Zion National Park. All the content was shot on a Panasonic HDC HS300 and edited in Final Cut Pro.

Sadly there’s no show this week as dufus, here managed to record the whole thing at a completely distorted level , rendering it unlistenable, however I do have other news. I’ve been asked to contribute a short film to accompany “First Light” by Sounds From The Ground for a show – called Quiet Voices – at the Tate Britain that’s being curated by John Rixon (a.k.a Amukidi), on Friday 8th January, 2010 between 6pm and 10pm.

I’m completely stoked, excited, humbled, daunted and numerous other confusing emotions by this news as it’s completely beyond what I’d ever hope to acheive as a “VJ”, but I do hope that some of you can make it down to London to see the show, not only for me but for the plethora of talent that my film will be a small part of.

Normal service will resume next week.