The music is a voice improvisation recorded using mostly the laptop mic, and then near the end a couple supporting harmonies were recorded with a proper mic and used as contrasting sound.

The video portion was shot along the West Side Highway in NYC, I suppose around the upper 50s or so. There was a lot of construction going on and I thought it looked pretty fascinating.

I used a very standard point and shoot to collect the footage, and AfterEffects to composite it together.

The video was produced for my interactive website, where circular and hexagon-shaped videos can be clicked on their panels and turned. You can see this one, as well as two other circles and two hexagons, there: theturn.tv

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  • Blake Whitman staff 5 months ago
    ordinary to extraordinary. love it.

    can you share the AE process a bit?
  • Joe Primmer 5 months ago
    its called looping
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  • nemrod 5 months ago
    waow ! ...
    that's a "performance" !
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  • Stephen Coghill plus 5 months ago
    That is a whack-fest and I LOVE it!
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  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    Hi Blake. Thanks so much for posting this in staff picks! And thanks for the encouragement folks. :)

    To answer your question, I import the footage into AfterEffects and generally do all the compositing work manually, placing the panels and shifting them around on a center axis. Sometimes it's a bit like needlepoint, quite time-consuming, but I prefer working that way, the simpler the better.

    Hope that answers your question, Blake. :) Again, thanks!

    These circular videos are developed my interactive site, where the panels are clickable and turn the video. If you are interested please check them out here: theturn.tv
  • Sher Pierson 5 months ago
    Beautiful. Thanks.
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  • Thomas Charbit 5 months ago
    awesome...this is so clever !
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  • coincoyote 5 months ago
    Wow ! TROP FORT !!!
    Le collage musique/images est bien vu...

    Excellent vraiment !

    I really love your interactive site ;-)
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  • Very cool!
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  • LÅ MÅ 5 months ago
    Nice - I love the mandala like quality.
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  • Matthew Brown plus 5 months ago
    You give Lisa Gerrard a run for her money. :)
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  • Brown 5 months ago
    excellent concept and realisation. I'd love to see them projected.
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  • acericardo 5 months ago
    Around 1:10 sounds like Radiohead
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  • ailatanotos plus 5 months ago
    Genial!!

    Me encantó, a ratos veía claramente un ojo.
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  • Sunny Thaper plus 5 months ago
    Awesome! Pretty sure my mind was blown half way through that video.
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  • Chris Keegan 5 months ago
    Really beautiful abstractions.
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  • Henko 5 months ago
    Fantastic!
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  • JigsawJames 5 months ago
    Very good. A 'simple' idea that develops into something beautiful and complex but all from a strong idea. Well done.

    Just saw your web site and love love love it.
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  • Filip Sterckx 5 months ago
    wauw, your website is also amaaaazing
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  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    thanks for all the encouragement, folks!

    @ Matthew Brown - I hadn't heard Lisa Gerard so did a youtube search and Sanvean is in exactly the same key and make great accompaniment! hahah!

    Really glad you enjoy the circles. Do check out The Sad Song video which is the first one I did, and probably one of my best songs/videos. Or The Turn, which is a similar idea but horizontally.
  • Blake Whitman staff 5 months ago
    Hey Fredo, I would think about submitting your stuff to the disposable film festival - disposablefilmfestival.com/submit/
  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    Hey, thanks Blake! I'm going to, definitely. And at .99 a pop I could enter them all! Ha. Do you think that would be a mistake to do? Maybe I should just enter the circles, plus Moon in Hall, plus The Turn, as these were the ones shot with "low-end" point and shoots...? What do you think?
  • Blake Whitman staff 5 months ago
    yeah, I would enter the ones shot with your point and shoot as that is what they are looking for.
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  • Taras Lesko plus 5 months ago
    Very interesting technique.
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  • emiliano kore 5 months ago
    remembered me of the sacred geometry golden spiral... !

    very interesting and for out video ! thumbs up !
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  • Typedance! 5 months ago
    i really like it! nice work!
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  • Jesse Gehlen 5 months ago
    That is very interesting. I love the video and audio! Haven't seen anything quite like that before.
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  • Imri Nasution 5 months ago
    Damn, your website is amazing! I love it!
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  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    :) thanks folks.
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  • dats4sure 5 months ago
    If this doesn't inspire the creative spirit, I have a feeling you might be dead. Crazy good!!
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  • Michael Volkening 5 months ago
    Nicely done. Twisted simplicity. Extremely difficult.
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  • Incredibly mesmerizing.
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  • Yorch 5 months ago
    Me gusto mucho..no solo el efecto..sino que la forma y los colores....bueno bueno
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  • Hyun De Grande 5 months ago
    Incredible!! Great soundtrack too!
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  • Casa di Entertainment 5 months ago
    Amazing!
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  • this is awesome....dude
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  • Buzz 5 months ago
    brilliant, i love it!
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  • Damian Calvo plus 5 months ago
    this is incredible! I've always loved kaleidoscopes but this one is something else and the sound is very appropriate, it fits perfectly. So inspiring thank you.
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  • Pierre Maillard 5 months ago
    I love this movie. How to create an idea of infinity with a few materials
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  • Gustavo Coutinho 5 months ago
    Very very cool. I commend you taking all the time to do this. Patience is definitely a wonderful virtue.
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  • minimum 5 months ago
    love it!
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  • jeun shim 5 months ago
    very impressive !
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  • Wahdat Akbari plus 5 months ago
    nice! very original.
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  • Said Isaac 5 months ago
    Greeaaaattttt!!! Bravo Aplausos!!.. Excellent!
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  • Cesantes 5 months ago
    Nice the way your whirling and the time lag between panels match. Simple and so effective!! Thanks for this.
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  • Beth Burnett plus 5 months ago
    very beautiful. I can easily imagine a lovely "remix" of your music -- captivating!
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  • ronmexicolives 5 months ago
    It's like a Kaleidoscope come to life...This is pretty unique.
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  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    thank you all so much, folks! I'm so pleased people have been enjoying it. I have a bunch of new circular videos which I'll be releasing both here and on my interactive site in the next couple of months. :)
  • ronmexicolives 5 months ago
    I was wondering if you had anything else on a specific website, perhaps?
  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    I have two other circular videos here, and on my interactive site theturn.tv and a good many in my computer waiting to be finished! :)
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  • Merle and Erki Kannus 5 months ago
    Again, excellent work!
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  • DVJ Million 5 months ago
    time machine )
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  • Alan Z 5 months ago
    Impresionante. Realmente impresionante!
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  • Jacques Blais 5 months ago
    Shiitt. A salvia trip!!!
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  • Siegi Müller 5 months ago
    Schööön!
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  • modularestudio 4 months ago
    beautifull!
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  • Inspired by Life plus 4 months ago
    Easy idea, great effect. Awesome.
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  • Nhieu Do 4 months ago
    Fantastic. I really like the shape of the video being a circle. Also, I love the movement within each of the screen how they are not entirely matched up with each other. There are new time-space behaviors created here in the piece.
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  • EDUARDO ELLI 3 months ago
    De lo ínfimo hacia el todo...
    Felicitaciones, es sumamente cautivante tu trabajo.
    Saludos!
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  • Marcela Armadillo 3 months ago
    Simple but deep. Nice to have you leaving this pieces on Earth.
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  • Frank Figora 3 months ago
    (See my comments on Robinson Crusoe.) With every one of your videos I watch, I am more and more in awe.
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  • Carol Wright 3 months ago
    Your videos are terrific, but seen in context with your glorious website. What an artisitc triumph. You made my day. People be sure to visit his website. You'll never forget it.
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  • sajid 3 months ago
    very interesting video one of it own kind. cheers
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  • Lindsay Herko plus 3 months ago
    Fredo,

    Thank you for making such beautiful things - things that elicit a desire in the throat - to live more - to feel voice returning and welling up...and for the eye - Could you project some of your work on the dome of a planetarium...That'd be full coverage....
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  • Jay Shropshire plus 2 months ago
    This would be so cool to make a short film with a narrative story and edit it to this format... Contact me if you want to make it, I'm totally down.
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  • Joao Bruch 1 month ago
    Congratulations my friend, u just inspired me to explore de video universe from another perspective, im studying eletronic music right now, but i wanna create a project that includes music and video with some heavy espirtual content to trance parties, keep on with ur good work...my english is fucked up, but im pretty sure u can understand hehahehae

    cheers from Brazil!
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