Helsinki
Annual video from Lux Helsinki. This year we had quite warm and wet weather for this time of the year. I used Korg Minilogue morphed with Soma Ether for synth parts. Ether was recorded to video's audio track and that sound was used on DAW. Little Ether you hear was recorded same time as video was shot. There is little of Pigments 2. Choir is Spitfire's Eric Whitacre Choir. Video was shot with Sony A6600.
Times are changing. The place where this was shot is being torn down and something else is build on its place. That means Helsinki will lose one of the better venues for bands to gigs. I have seen quite a few bands there. Some of my favorite bands have played there. I don’t remember did I see Cult of Luna there.
And the weather. We don’t get that kind of weather any more.
I went quite experimental with this one. On both video and music side. It could be taste of things to come. Experimental videos are more fun to make. Next one will be experimental at least on music side. Don’t know how experimental I can go on video side. If it works it could start series of videos. But more about that next time.
Video tells my plans for 2020. I try to get rid of gear acquisition syndrome. There are still something like 360 camera I’d like to have but for what I have I am not going to get something only with minor improvements on what I already have. How that works remains to be seen.
Short video telling why I had so long break and why videos will take so long to publish. I have listened lately two podcasts which talked about how being jack of all trades can be good thing in the end. Book about that was released lately. Here I tell how hard it could be if you want to get something done. Video was heavily inspired by Death Grips' I've Seen Footage. I wrote little about that video in other post.
Video is made out of 1262 stills I shot during few nights and short Blender animation test. I try to make fully animated videos next year. This was sneak peak to those videos if they ever get made.
I am one of those who dared to buy Sony A6600. This is what I have to say about the camera after having and testing it for a week. Whole video is shot outdoors with Sony A6600. You don't have to endure my talking face waiting for sample footage. I mainly shoot video so I talk from that perspective.
After my last video got so much dislikes I decided to do something more neutral. Original plan was to make video about Roli Seaboard Block. That is why there is so much sea. I just didn't feel confident enough to make music with Seaboard yet. So I picked other topic.
Video is shot around Helsinki. I wanted to have something English in video so I used Spitfire Audio's Union Chapel Organ on background music.