This is the second of nine videos that make up the RIVER Suite collection from my RIVER cd. Each video focuses on different aspects of streams, creeks, and rivers. These are music videos but also much different than just a straight documentary style of video. I'm using a style I call "magical nature realism" where literal imagery is morphed into more abstract types of animation. Read on for more details about this type of video imagery.
“While on the road I began to envision a piece of music that would essentially chart the flow of water in a stream or river. I imagined a composition that ‘flowed’ – free of the constraints of form, key, tuning, rhythm, or harmony. I’d never heard a piece like this before, so I started improvising ideas and recording them at night.” Fifteen minutes of solo guitar music was written and recorded while on the southwest journey and another sixteen minutes were added once Latarski returned home. “I did add a few other sounds to the basic track (bowed guitar, fretless classical guitar, taped (semi muted) strings, and wind blown guitar) to draw out a melody or enhance a texture here and there, but it is essentially a solo guitar work.”
The result is a melody infused perambulation that conjures up images of awe, reverence, and wonder. “The point is to make people feel good about being alive and to encourage an adventurous spirit.” Perhaps you could think of this music as a meditation on nature. Picture yourself in a meadow with wild flowers, bobbing on a lake, floating a river, seeing the sunrise on Mt. Whitney, or walking on the Pacific Crest Trail. Whatever your version of natural nirvana, this music will surely take you there.
What I’m trying to create with the videos that accompany the RIVER cd tracks is what I’m calling magical nature realism. The term is derived from that genre of literature which was born in Latin America and made known to the larger world by books like: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. This genre blends the real and surreal and the reader or listener is asked to move between different modes of perception. With my videos I’m often morphing the real into an animated version of reality. Clouds shape shift in a static foreground while creeks exert such a strong gravitational pull that the logs in the water and even the bank are swept into the flow. The intent is to both entertain and to create a link between the enormous scope nature gives us and to see nature as art.
Much of the techniques used to create animation from still photos revolves around the fact that many of the photos themselves are abstractions: long shutter speed images that capture a slice of time rather than a moment. These images invite further manipulation to provide a sense of dynamism and evolution.
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