I call this avant guarde/experimental piece “Man with a Movie Camera and a Well-Tuned Toy Piano” (July 1, 2021).
So, La Monte Young has this famous 5-hour (or 6-hour as it was later) improvisation piece called “The Well-Tuned Piano.” It’s a nice lengthy piece of raw material, ready for remix! So, I compressed it down to an hour and 15 minutes which increased every frequency by a factor of 4 transforming the full-scale piano into a toy piano (it sounds kinda like John Cage’s famous “Suite for Toy Piano“). The music shifts at times from sounding like a toy piano to sounding like wind chimes, fluctuating back and forth between the two. For visuals, I grabbed Dziga Vertov’s 1929 Soviet classic film Man with a Movie Camera. What’s interesting is how the high frequencies in the new “Well-Tuned Toy Piano” soundtrack amplifies the high-speed flicker and rapid cuts of the film. There are – as usual with any soundtrack slapped on a film – many fortuitous reinforcements of sound and visuals as our minds desperately try to link them and thus make/find meaning. There are also times where the intense cacophony of sound becomes so overwhelming that it’s difficult to focus on the imagery.