In my email I received an open “call for entries” for video submissions to a festival in London. I did not submit anything to the egoboo, but the various stringent requirements spurred my interest. The main requirement stated that all submissions had to be 2 minutes and 13 seconds and any submission longer or shorter would be disqualified. (Read the requirements below.) So I made a 2:13 scratchy video and sent it to Bob, Bob and Jack to use the video as a score for their independent soundtrack improvisations. When I received their mp3’s I made a sandwich of the soundtracks and badTV is the result. November 2008
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The First 2:13 Thirst Fish Festival London, England would like to invite experimental video artists from all around the world to submit videos to be screened during the festival.
There is no theme for works, but every video submitted should last exactly 2 minutes and 13 seconds. Videos under or over this duration will be disqualified.
A total of 13 videos will be selected and screened during the Festival, at Café Oto on the 28th, 29th & 30th November 2008
Format: please send dvd (european region only please) or avi files on CDr or DVDr .
Please include a short bio and still photo (preferably on data cd
The 2:13 festival operates on a very small budget based on artist's initiative and small sponsorships. Unfortunately we cannot offer a fee for selected videos and are not able to return previews.
Deadline: October 15th 2008 (post stamped)
Please send your video to:
213 Festival Videos
139 Gibson Gardens
LONDON
N16 7HH
U.K.
From: Falesch
To: Grant Strombeck
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: no love
Oh, sorry, not very nice not to comment, was it.Well, I listened via headphones (it was 3:00am, as I recall) and Jack's drone seemed to be mixed hard-right (that is hell on headphones). My audio was mostly inaudible. Bobby was pretty much placed just right, I'd say. Same for your sounds. You set for yourself a near impossible task. I really like the concept of the four quadrants and the time offset. I think we should keep trying this.
So, yeah, I guess I didn't like it very much :
)smoke exhaled in blue is way cool. I just heard badTV over speakers. Much better that way (on headphones, the ear with him feels like a lead weight is tied to its earlobe, pulling one down into the soup). Nevertheless, I'd pan Jack toward center (a bit) and knock him down 5 or 6 db. He's too dominant in the mix. You could ride gain on him to give him the prominence at select times, but I think he's too present too much of the time. It's perfectly fine I'm inaudible much of the time. Part of that was by design (silences are present:)
Right, you didn't ask me. I'm a snot at times.
bad is "bad" = good
so is dome
as well as the others--
Bob Marsh