CROSSiNG
– Cloud Painting #4
Scott M2 (Scott
McGregor Moore) is the founder of Canadian electronic soundscape project dreamSTATE,
with Jamie Todd - known for
their ambient installations, albums and atmospheric live performances. Since
2000,
they have curated THE
AMBiENT PiNG live music series in Toronto, presenting hundreds of experimental
concerts.
Deeply rooted in the concepts of ambient music, Scott has initiated a series
of investigations into the
possibilities of ambient film and related multimedia to induce a slower, subtler
relationship with time and space.
His latest projects include Muse Concrète photography/multimedia,
including the Cloud Painting series,
and Oblique Poetries
wordsoundart with poet/fiberartist Lynn
Harrigan.
This
site focuses on Scott's multimedia and wordsoundart projects.
For news on dreamSTATE please visit the dreamSTATE
site.
Contact: scottm2@dreamSTATE.to
Note
- This page includes Flash/You Tube coding.
November 12th to December 16th 2011 ~ Lumina Three
Multiple monitor ambient video installation at
Roadside Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto.
Lumina
Three ~
A unique tableau for each viewer, to engender
moments of mystery through light, line and slow evolution.
October 2011 ~ icon for a small planet + Limbus
- Cloud Painting #7
Ambient films with music by dreamSTATE for
VAGUE TERRAIN net journal of Digital Art /Culture / Technology
Still
from icon for a small planet
Two
new ambient films are premiered in VAGUE
TERRAIN 20: AMBIENT edition.
"Recently
I've been delighted to be able to work on music and visuals practically anywhere
using my iPad. I appreciated the timely invitation from Vague Terrain to submit
a new ambient work and completed the visual treatments for icon for a small
planet
while on daily transit. It seemed appropriate to create the soundtrack
with elements from an iPhone app dreamSTATE is developing.
I
have paired icon for a small planet with Limbus - Cloud Painting
#7 to match its rather
ominous mood. Brian Eno once defined ambient music as being "as ignorable
as it is interesting".
This does not eliminate the induction of thoughts and feelings through ambient
works,
be they light or dark, or their ability to comment on the current human condition."
August 29th, 2011 ~ Chalk for Jack Layton - Cloud
Painting #22
Ambient video with soundtrack by dreamSTATE
Click
here or on the image to play the film.
A
tribute to well-respected Canadian polititian Jack
Layton inspired by the many hundreds
of personal messages left in chalk on the walls and sidewalks outside of Toronto
City Hall
after his death on August 22, 2011.
"I
visited to read the messages and found them thoughtful, emotional and inspirational.
I was moved to photograph many of these messages before they were washed away
in the rain and to make this film - a personal statement in art for Jack
and an attempt to see the future with less cynicism and more optimism."
August 6th - 21st, 2011 ~ icon for a small planet
#1
12x12" treated photograph on wrapped canvas
This
image, selected from a new ambient film icon for a small planet,
is Scott's contribution to the 2011 edition of the Square Foot project:
9TH
ANNUAL SQUARE FOOT SHOW
Presented at TWIST Gallery, 1100 Queen St. West (Queen & Dovercourt)
Exhibition dates: Saturday August 6th - 21st, 2011
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sat. 12-7pm & Sun. 12-5pm
Press/Collectors
Preview Gala: Friday, August 5th, 7pm
Tickets are $20.00 and proceeds from ticket sales will go to local charities.
Tickets available online.
Public
Reception: Saturday, August 6th, 7pm (free admission)
May 25th to June 5th 2011 ~ Parkdale Facade
20x20" treated photograph at the OPEN DOORS exhibition at Gallery
1313,
1313 Queen St. West, Toronto. This exhibition of photography and painting
reflecting Toronto and Parkdale architecture and urban landscape is curated
by Director, Phil Anderson and is part of the Toronto DOORS OPEN event.
Gallery Hours are Wed- Sun 1-6pm & Sat & Sun. During DOORS OPEN Toronto 10am – 6pm.
February 18th to March 11th 2011 ~ Guitardream
60x60cm ambient photography at the 60x60
Images exhibition remounted in conjunction
with the opening of the 24th Annual Minumental Show at the Art
Academy of Cincinnati.
October 12th to 24th 2010 ~ Guitardream
60x60cm ambient photography at Contemporanea 2010, Festival di Nuova Musica
-
TEM - Taukay
Edizioni Musicali - Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine Italy,
as part of the 60x60
Images exhibition (60 60x60cm pieces by 60 artists
from around the world) curated by Francesca Agostinelli.
Click
brochure image for 60x60
Images Exhibition on the WEB.
Guitardream
(left) ~ Click photo for 60x60
Images gallery
photos.
July 13th to 18th 2010 ~ CITYSCAPES: Ephemeral City
Urban-Ambient photography at Propeller
Center For The Visual Arts - 984 Queen St. W. Toronto
as part of the OBSCURED
METROPOLIS exhibition curated by Simone Rojas-Pick.
Opening Reception: Thursday July 15th, 7-10pm.
"The triptych, Ephemeral City (2010), is part of a series of photographs, Cityscapes.
The
blurred images capture the motion and mystery of urban life. Bravely future
facing,
enigmatic figures embrace the inscrutable nature of the Ephemeral City,
complicit in the street culture that defines one moment from the next.
Restlessness
propels them through time. Momentum is their most valuable currency."
July
1st to 31st 2010 from dusk till 2:00am ~ Moz - Cloud Painting #8
Ambient video installation at Roadside
Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto.
"It is believed that the word moose is derived from the Algonquin Abenaki tribe's name, Moz.
Moz was
captured on film in Algonquin Park as he pensively enjoyed his lunch.
No doubt he was pondering the transience of existence and his place
in the art world as a symbol of Canada's deepest wilderness.
The Cloud
Painting series employs clouds as agents of artistic transformation in
order
to draw the viewer deeper into slow-time. As
ambient art, Cloud Paintings reward attention
but can be as easily ignored as the elemental wilderness that Moz represents."
May 12th to June 6th 2010 ~ Rain of Fire
An Oblique Poetries wordsoundart piece with poet/fiberartist
Lynn Harrigan.
Rain of Fire marks the first installment of Intersections,
a three part series
curated by Simone Rojas-Pick and Jessica Nagy for the Launch Pad Project
for the Gallery 1313 Window
Gallery - 1313A Queen St. West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday May 13th, 7-10pm
"Rain of Fire is a new multimedia collaboration between Scott
M2 and Lynn Harrigan
that combines poetry, embroidery and ambient video painting to address the
vulnerability
of so many during these times of rapid economic change. Created as part of
their
developing Oblique
Poetries series, the piece reflects the emotions of people trapped
by
the economic collapse of recent times and the false promises of the global
new world order.
Left exposed and unprotected, there is no solace in the gospels of greed."
September 11th, 2009 ~ Plate Tectonics - Cloud Painting #10
A short ambient test-film by Scott M2 / Music by dreamSTATE - (1:34)
September
15, 2009 ~ dreamSTATE - Soundscape for Richard Wright
A film by Scott M2 for dreamSTATE's homage to Pink Floyd keyboardist
Richard Wright (July 23, 1945 - September 15, 2008).
Concert
footage filmed September 21st 2008 by Jeff Howard,
additional footage by Scott M2, analog light projections by General Chaos
Visuals,
and music by dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie Todd with Eric Hopper).
January
1st to 31st 2009 from dusk till 2:00am ~ Le Temps de La Neige -
Cloud Painting #13
Ambient video installation at Roadside
Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto.
A
vintage television sits on an old wooden table. Rabbit-ear antennae extended,
the signal hopefully enhanced by crumpled tinfoil on the tip of one damaged
ear.
The
forecast for the future is blue screens and blackness.
Television snow, a constant since childhood,
disappears with analog television sets as technology evolves.
A contemplation of transience and an appreciation of simple beauty,
Cloud Painting #13 pays homage to the time of snow.
Le
Temps de La Neige at Roadside
Attractions gallery - Photo by Roy Kohn
Moz
- Cloud Painting #8, a 12 minute ambient film by Scott M2, was created
as a DVD Single with a dreamSTATE
soundtrack, playable in stereo or as a
Dolby AC-3 quadrophonic immersive mix with an infinite loop
option.
This DVD edition is now out-of-print.
The
Cloud Painting series are intended as video paintings, employing clouds
as a medium of slow transformation. DVD media allow the release of
immersive ambient soundtracks with ambient visuals explorations.
December
13th, 2008 ~ CROSSiNG – Cloud Painting #4
Ambient video installation and fiberscapes
at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto.
A multimedia collaboration between Lynn Harrigan and Scott M2.
Fibers meet electrons in an evolving work of gradual transformation and revelation.
The
soundscape component of the installation was created by dreamSTATE
(Scott M2 + Jamie Todd),
the film by Scott M2/Lynn Harrigan and the accompanying fiberscapes by Harrigan.
CROSSiNG at The Theatre Centre, December 13th, 2008
