“20 July 2023” [scatterArchive 2024] This video is about absence and presence. The audio was recorded a year ago, and the video I have shot and edited these last few days. My mom died in December (7 months ago). The flowers not depicted are growing in my mom’s gardens here in Canada. I have replaced the blooms with the lake. The health of the garden evokes a contrast of emotions for me. Reassurance of renewal, a living memory, but also an indifference to her absence and something about the stubbornness of life. Absence is knowing something is missing. It’s an awareness of what isn’t. It’s an imagined presence. Absence cannot exist without an imagining of what is missing. Both the audio and the video can function separately, feel free to mute the audio when you watch. Audio available for download here: https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/a… if you’re able, please purchase to show your support
In conjunction with her first solo LP, Sandy Ewen has created a video installation showcasing a series of virtual spaces. Ewen is a professional architect; this installation subverts architectural rendering software through the creation of glitched meshes, processed reality, arrays, and intersecting geometries. Using a variety of digital processes including photogrammetry, traditional 3d modeling, texturing, digital lighting and virtual camera sequencing, these videos reinterpret Ewen’s guitar abstractions as virtual landscapes. The installation consists of one two-channel video (You Win) and 4 single channel videos totaling 40 minutes 14 seconds, with the stereo audio of Ewen’s new album, You Win.
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visit my instagram for some short video art pieces @sandyewen https://www.instagram.com/sandyewen/
Red Currant
Red Currant was an iteration of the Large Ensemble. For this performance, ensemble members were invited to write music/performance pieces for the ensemble inspired by Francis Alÿs’s The Fabiola Project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EntYmEBaaY
Architects of Cinema
Architects of Cinema is a collaborative project featuring guitar & projections by Sandy Ewen, movement by Y.E.Torres, and video skills & occasional guitar playing by Chris Nelson. The trio creates layered performance environments.
https://vimeo.com/63299018
http://vimeo.com/63302589
Weird Weeds:
This video I made using architectural rendering software, in 2018.
Sheila Scoville made this video, it’s quite fun.
In 2007, Aaron Russel and I worked on making a soundtrack to Man With A Movie Camera. It was for a class I was in, I like how it turned out. Most of the sounds are me, Aaron did most of the audio editing with me watching over his shoulder.
Ewen/Walter/Smith trio:
This video was a collaboration with Sandy Ewen (projections) & jonathan Jindra (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3poCvOcmnWQ
Spiderwebs
Improvised duo of Sandy Ewen & Tom Carter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tw5ZiBTdM
Sandy Ewen & Damon Smith interview on Binarium TV, 2011
Here is a video collaborative project made by me, Y E Torres & Jonathan Jindra. We thought this performance was very humorous. I don’t usually like when accompanying videos have sound, but the loon sounds are funny. I wouldn’t necessarily link to this here except that it is unlisted on YouTube and I might want to watch it again some day.