This is my tribute to the fire spinners. All the clips were shot at night, and in color reversal all the black became white, and the orange fire became blue. I like the way the figures are revealed in blue flashes. All I used were the clips of the spinners, their strings of colored lights, their glowing poi ball, and a bit of my eye. Some clips are sped up or slowed down, often drastically so. I had a very difficult time rendering this, trying to keep the whites balanced and avoid pink screens. Trying to co-ordinate everything to the music was also very tedious. This is as far as I can go with my current crappycam and editor. The music is an old synth backing track I used to improvise over. It goes in circles just like the fire wands. Let the visuals be the melody. Many thanks to Neidra and Burke of Burning Love Fire Performance. All my music is BMI, please don't extract the audio or distribute it without the video.

Karmic furniture crafstmanship. Come down south and set a spell, there might even be a spell where you're settin'! Sounds and music: Titles: Random .wav's from my desktop. Electronic: Excerpts from Waves, by Forrest Covington. Orchestral: from Chthonic Mass, by Forrest Covington. This was fun, but took a lot longer than I thought it would. I am about done with Ulead software, I need a good editor. I'm running 2000, any suggestions? (This video is dedicated tongue in cheek to Kierri, who probably already has a chair like this, and CaffiendLady, who is certainly going to need one!)

I have found the color and effects section of my editor (Ulead Studio 8) so I made this 'experimental' video. All of the clips are of flowers in my yard, including the kaleidescope effects. I realize it's just a glorified plenoptic for the music, but hey, I have to start somewhere! When I get a REAL editing software, I'll do more. I couldn't get inset shapes other than rectangles, but I tried to fade them in and out. The music is "Deja Vu" for flute and piano, which I wrote and recorded in 1977. I am playing piano, Janet Becker is the flutist. Please do not distribute the soundtrack seperately from the video. All my music is liscensed through BMI. This took a lot longer to make than I thought it would. Hopefully I can get more and better effects, and make music videos of recordings I have while I'm waiting for the chance to practice again. Then I can upload music regularly and in earnest!

Passiflora Incarnata (maypop, mayapple, apricot vine) is a relative of the tropical passionfruit that grows wild on the east coast of the US. I have been cultivating it as a hobby for the flowers and the tasty, exotic looking fruit. I'll do more videos as it grows apace. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata Also, twin spinster quinsters, an amarillis (? not sure) and a horse's ass. (I am still waiting for permission to post my remaining videos from my Nebraska trip. Also I have been refurbishing the house, but I hope to get back to posting videos soon.)

1957 Ford Fairlane I just aquired this car, I will start restoring it later this year. Update: The metal dash IS there, it was merely covered

Fourth part of my trip to Nebraska to hear the first performance of my piece "A Winter's Poem".

a wallboard and toobifore twang box i made when i was 12 Thanks to PAtrick for holding the camera

Third part of my trip to Nebraska to hear the first performance of my piece "A Winter's Poem".

Second part of my trip to Nebraska to hear the first performance of my piece "A Winter's Poem".

First part of my trip to Nebraska to hear the first performance of my piece "A Winter's Poem".

a long boring vlog on my birthday. learning to edit. thanks to B for letting me use the 'bidness' computer to upload it

A friend of mine got me a ticket to hear the Brahms Requiem performed by the Durham Choral Society and orchestra under Rodney Wynkoop. It was awesome! My bud also loaned me a score which I followed, so it was also a prime learning experience. (I have to re-educate myself constantly, because the older I get, the less I know). I couldn't viddy the concert, of course, but I shot a bit of the orchestra warming up, before the chorus filed into the risers. In the usual surreal coincidence, I ended up seated right next to an obviously mentally troubled woman. You can hear her in the video, I didn't take her picture. The kinds of disconnected, random stuff she was spouting continued throughout the concert, albeit at a lower volume level because her caretaker person kept shushing her. I felt sorry for her, but some other folks were a bit pissed off. This was in Baldwin Auditorium on the Duke campus. I like the dome!

Crappy Handheld Video Cam Upload!! Here is the link for the album "Masterworks of the New Era Volume 1" that has the original recording of "A Winter's Poem" and the piece by Tyler White, "elegy for the Orphans of Terror" http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6803592/a/Masterworks+of+the+New+Era+Vol+1+%2F+Robert+Ian+Winstin,+et+al.htm I highly recommend Tyler's piece, it came out better than mine did. For that matter, I have another piece, "Anagoge", on Volume 5: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6805990/a/Masterworks+of+the+New+Era+Vol+5+%2F+Robert+Ian+Winstin,+et+al.htm You can hear audio samples here. Oh, and they misspelled "Anagoge". Here is a page on Tyler White, I wish I had his resume! http://myitg.unl.edu/unlweb/index.php?bio_id=47 The UNL Symphony http://www.unl.edu/music/ensembles/Orchestras.shtml And here is the page on Cy Walter: http://www.cywalter.com/ I notice on this vid that one of my nostrils is shaped like a kidney, and that my face seems to be morphing into some old pudgy guy's mug. And yes, I need a haircut!

One thing i didn't make clear on this video, is that when you are actually playing, there isn't always a strict division between the use of the arm and the wrist, you use more of one or less of the other depending on the speed and dynamic. It becomes automatic and intuitive over time. So enjoy some of the instruction I went into debt to get myself!

I was doing some improvising at the piano to use for experimenting with my sound editor, and decided I like this one. It's mainly two chords, (sort of) B and C, with scales involving a lot of augmented seconds. I do a lot of improvising, it's where many, but not all, of my written out ideas come from, sort of the free chaos from which the mind evolves order. Here I am in one of my more mystical, "snake charmer" melodic moods. I thought about making this the first official post on my music channel, but I want to save that for my first sonata. I may keep posting my informal improvs here anyway. I am beginning to get a sound I like, let's see what the processing does to it.

there's work! Scenes from the life of a redneck with postgraduate degrees. I heat my house with woodstoves, so I cut many cords of firewood every year. Learning to use my editor.

The power company comes to cut away the branches that threaten the lines if a storm comes. It has to be done, but it was a bummer when they cut my walnut. Oh well.

Another sound check. This is a slightly hyperized version of Scott Joplin's "Sunflower Slow Drag" with a bit of barroom swing. There are a couple of dropouts and tiny errors, i'll make another,more "official" version later for my music channel. I am still having troubles with the sound, although it is geting better. This one goes out to Tre'Nog and crazymml, i suspect both of you like this kind of music. Ragtime *is* classical now, it's a hundred years old! Enjoy!

horseface

I am not Opporknockity. Opporknockity was such a great piano tuner that once he set the pitch, the piano never had to be tuned again, hence the phrase, "Opporknockity only tunes once" (Note: this is not my new sound, i fell back on the webcam mike for this vid)