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Black Mountain Days-New Journal of Drifting Hours film

Black Mountain Days is from the ongoing Journal of Drifting Hours series: Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations explored on super 8 film. This footage was recorded in Asheville and Black Mountain, North Carolina after the Frequency in Motion performance at Black Mountain College Museum, October 2025

B/W Super 8 Film

A Season Close to Mountains

With the unfortunate demise of Vimeo on Demand (VOD), I will be moving my films to a different platform. In the meantime, they will be available to stream for free. Here is the second one: A Season Close to Mountains (2021).

Beyond Encounters #33 archive and tracklist

All of the material on this show is new, so there are no links yet. Sounds from Romania, Italy, France, and Maryland. All work by Hiroko Komiya and me.

Enjoy

Notes on Slow Viewing Room at Space Theater in Busan, South Korea.

I have been thinking about the Slow Viewing room experience since I returned from Busan.

There was rain

outside the theater

count the frames

black out

on the brink of nothingness

the unknown

sonic transition

dawn

in the grey

the setting, the architecture, the space, the environment.

different worlds and levels of engagement.

current or present, past or lost and distant, not so distant futures.

landscapes of recovery

the pulse of the sun flickering on the screen

circles of light

falling leaves

rings of silence

boats drifting and slipping away

exterior sounds making their way into the space

performer and spectator

absorbing travel

art creating in a world of commerce

Industry embedded within the structure

stillness and reading

methods of repair

contemplation

past visions

collaborative effort with the viewer

the performer

elements of sound

the image

the space as performer

leaving and returning

mountain path

eyes looking out

Deep thanks to Jun Sangbae for his artistic vision and ideas and Hwang Miae for her stunning performance..

Atlantic view 17

New view from the Atlantic sereis-

Beyond Encounters #30 tracklist and archive Special guest Una Lee

Here is the tracklist and archive for Una’s show on Beyond Encounters. Links are provided to all of the music. Deep thanks to Una for putting this together. She is an amazing artist and a wonderful collaborator. Enjoy 🙂

(1) 0:00 ‘The House That Stood for Happiness’ – with a poem by Maria McManus. (https://unalee.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-stay-awake-to)

(2) 4:48 ‘Space Boy in a Skirt’ abridged – with voice and homophonic translation by Cem Özçelik.

(3) 12:23 ’The Harbour’ from OĀZE, extracted from the App-based piece (https://optophono.bandcamp.com/album/o-ze-limited-edition-box)

(4) 16:01 ‘traceless land’ by Lynlee with Chris Lynn (https://lynlee.bandcamp.com/album/the-changeover)

(5) 20:11 ‘Ophelia’ abridged, extracted from the video performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj77NSuKkM0)

(6) 25:10 ‘Down Gone (Radio Edit)’ (https://accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antechamber-music-2)

(7) 29:50 ‘po(e)sies’ abridged – from live performance recording (https://singinguna.com/po(e)sies)

(8) 37:23 ‘all speak in love’ theme music – with a variation on Caritas Habundat by Hildegard von Bingen (https://allspeakinlove.substack.com/about)

(9) 38:18 ‘Uplifted’ – extracted from live performance film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e65hZOyYHH8)

(10) 45:34 ‘Reading Room’ – part of ‘Mettāmorphosis’, an audio-guide-based sound installation for Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (https://thewappingproject.org/commissions/mettamorphosis/)

13 Views (excerpt)

Here is an excerpt from 13 views which will premiere in Busan, South Korea on 3/30 at the Space Theater for the Slow viewing room.

Kushimoto Tides (excerpt)

Below is an excerpt from a recent super 8 film called Kushimoto Tides. This is from my Journal of Drifting Hours series. This footage was filmed in Kushimoto, Japan, Spring, 2025.

I will be screening this and other new films in Busan, South Korea on 3/30 and 3/31:

Beyond Encounters #29 tracklist and archive

Below is archive and tracklist. Enjoy

Winter Solstice (excerpt) w. Hiroko Komiya
January on the Bay (excerpt) New
Piano Improv (New)
Frequency in Glasgow, Scotland (excerpt) New
Foxriver (different mix)
Northern Pacific Railroad Yards for the British Library inspired by Flickr series-(Archive and link coming soon)
Warsaw Tram (New)
Antibes (23)
Glasgow coffee shop (new)
Snow and Ice near bridge (new)
North Carolina trail (new)