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 - which the author believes is safe.

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.

September 11th, 2009 ~ Plate Tectonics - Cloud Painting #10
A short ambient 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 - Sept. 15, 2008).

Concert footage 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, is now available
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.

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

May 25th, 2008 ~ Scott created films for the KNURL (Alan Bloor)
concrete soundsculpture performance at the Concrete Toronto Music event.

CONCERT SCHEDULE for Sunday May 25 @ Polish Combatants Hall (206 Beverley St.)
8:00-8:15 — introductions
8:15-8:30— Carla Huhtanen (voice) + Wallace Halladay (sax)
8:30-9:00— Knurl (playing concrete) + Scott M2 (film)
9:15-9:45 — Smith & Wiernik (laptop + visuals)
10:00-10:30 — Tony Dekker (guitar + voice) with Sandro Perri (electronics)
10:45-11:30 — CCMC: Michael Snow — piano + keyboard,
John Oswald — sax, Paul Dutton — voice

Article on Concrete Toronto Music in Eye Weekly.

KNURL (Alan Bloor) performs (on concrete blocks) at Concrete Toronto Music with film by Scott M2.

Two pieces from the Oblique Poetries series by Scott M2 and Lynn Harrigan
are featured at Stephen Philips' new Ambient Poetry.com site.

November 13th, 2007 - Scott performs soundscapes to underscore poetry and
art projections by Steve McCabe and tap dancing (!) by Paula Skimin at The Art Bar Poetry Series.
at Clinton's, 693 Bloor St. W., Toronto, by the Christie subway station.

November 23rd, 2007 - Scott M2 and Lynn Harrigan read from Oblique Poetries
at the Plasticine Poetry Series - The Central, 603 Markham St., Toronto
with Michael Fraser, Truth Is and Kurt Zubatiuk.

October 17th 2007 - Draft 3.1 - The Poetic Connection - 276 Carlaw Ave., Suite 202, Toronto
Art, poetry and dance come together in this special edition of Draft featuring four multi-media collaborations.

Scott M2 and poet/fiberartist Lynn Harrigan read from their collaborative work Oblique Poetries.
Scott will also be weaving soundscapes live to underscore the poetry and will be premiering
his first ambient visual work Bone Memory, which will be projected during their set (at 8pm sharp)
with poet Ronna Bloom & pianist Peter Dick, poet Susan L. Helwig & projections by Felix Chakirov,
poet/artist Steven McCabe & guitarist Paul Sanderson & dancer Preethi Gopinath.

Photo by Jamie Todd

October 16th, 2007 - HOWL on CIUT-FM (11:00 pm EST) Scott M2 & Lynn Harrigan join host Nancy Bullis
on HOWL, Toronto's weekly "breakdown of the zeitgeist of poetic expression" on CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto
and live on the internet. They'll be discussing their upcoming performances and reading from Oblique Poetries.

July 6th through 15th, 2006 ~ Scott M2 performs dreamSTATE soundscapes to accompany
MOON SEA CROSSING - The Play at The Toronto Fringe Festival based on the book by Lynn Harrigan.
Produced by Fertile Ground Productions, the play garnered a 5-star review
from writer Kellie Maltese in eye weekly magazine:

"This gathering of mythology, music and meta-fiction produces a poetic palimpsest of Irish beliefs
and one immigrant woman's struggle to find a balance among them. In an audience-directed monologue,
"MOON SEA CROSSING" is accentuated by music and lighting that serve to mirror both the
character's emotional and physical battle based on the prejudices that bind her. With language that
flows like the sea that has stolen her away from her homeland, the audience can't help but follow her along."

Scott M2 tweezes the scapes for MOON SEA CROSSING - The Play in the Factory Theatre soundbooth.
Photos by Lynn Harrigan