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.
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, 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.
|
Moz
- Cloud Painting #8 DVD Single
$4.95 US + shipping |
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
