Scott M2 - Ambient Multi-media Works
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

Image from Chalk for Jack Layton - Will launch video
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

icon for a small planet - image by Scott M2
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.

Ephemeral City photos at Propeller Center For the Visual Arts
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.

Ephemeral City photos at Propeller Center For the Visual Arts

"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.

Cloud Painting #13 by Scott M2
Le Temps de La Neige at Roadside Attractions gallery - Photo by Roy Kohn


Moz - DVD cover

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 - Cloud Painting #14
CROSSiNG at The Theatre Centre, December 13th, 2008



Toronto City Hall - photo by Scott M2


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 - Photo by Scott M2
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.


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