One cold night --- March 7th, 2002 (Thursday) - 10:30pm

Bob Falesch and I carried our equipment into the WZRD studio. I brought Buchla's THUNDER a Proteus FX, a gong with a pick-up and a circuit bent instrument made by Gahzala.

Bob had his Gateway Solo running Win-2ooo and Gestural following (joystick, MIDI kybd): Pd (Pure Data). Self-authored program to track joystick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pure_Data Sound sample processing / synthesis: Reaktor 2. Custom designed additions to a couple classic NI ensembles to replace mouse X-Y widget with joystick controller streams and some soundfile playback triggers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktor Internal MIDI stream from Pd to Reaktor via virtual MIDI loopback driver.

Bob and I improvised on the radio for about an hour, non-stop. I used a small portion of sound from that broadcast. The nature scenes in the video came into being five years later.

So what's the process? How do most of my videos happen? They happen. I don't use a storyboard as they teach in film class. I see it or hear it, and then I mix and match. Without a visual idea in my head, a video can start with prerecorded sounds, or it can be the other way around. I don't know what the rules are so there is no reason for me to invent self-imposed rules. I understand free improvisation. When it started snowing I started shooting.

The snowy scenes were from 2007 and shot in miniDV at my favorite Colorado mountain retreat. I go there in June almost every year. In 2007 it started snowing one morning and there was about four inches of accumulation. In another hour, after the sunshine poked through, all the snow was gone.