Red Tape Studio

10/28/2024

Last night I saw this live at Lyndon Institute in addition to two other dances - 'Luminous' and 'John 4:20'.
Great performance!
Many thanks to Kingdom Country Productions for presenting this and so many other world-class performers here in Vermont.
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08/02/2024

Whenever I find a video of NIN with Lisa Fisher and Sharlotte Gibson in the band, I have to watch it.
Here you can, too.

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10/11/2022

08/25/2020

the power is still on as the wind blows and the rain falls hard...

07/15/2020

Life in isolation is a bit more splendid when I can get my mind off of the horrors that surround us and retreat into music and moviemaking. That's when I go out to my Red Tape Studio.

Last year I had the pleasure of motoring on a 33' sailboat from Charlotte, Vermont to NYC and back. The trip took about 3 weeks. I took lots of pictures and video.

Too regularly my creative spark ignites in the evening and I find myself immersed in producing music into the early hours of the morning. I lose track of time and, with the light of dawn casting shadows, I sometimes wake up with a composition like this.

So, here I am, isolated, physically distanced from the risk of COVID exposure, with time to create, the fuse is lit, sometimes fueled by a glass of Tom Cat covering 3 ice cubes and a slice of lime, megabits of digital image and electronic music files to choose from and my trusted editing assistant, iMac (no need for a mask or staying 6 feet apart).

This is the result of several sleepless but blissful nights in the dark with only the glow of the screen and the sounds of manipulated electronic beats and textures coloring the silence...

This particular result is a quick 4 1/2 minute trip from Vermont to NYC on the water.
I think you'll enjoy coming aboard...

Down The Hudson to NYC

07/13/2020

Messing around in physical isolation with some found footage of flying into Burlington and electronic loop manipulations mixed, with help from Tom Cat, and broadcast to the world at large at around 2:30 in the morning...
Happy landing...

Approach and Landing at BTV

01/22/2020

this video was produced in the warm seclusion of Red Tape Studio...

some of the sights I see on the road while delivering meals-on-wheels to residents of Washington County, Vermont served by the Twin Valley Senior Center

12/29/2019

Angle of Repose is in the house...

10/03/2019

there's been a tariff placed on magnetic recording tape which has created a lot of expensive red tape and we sure as hell don't need that!

07/30/2019

stuck in a heat wave...

07/23/2019

rehearsing in the studio for Gary Moore's book launch party on 8/11