This video combines footage from the 2022 AppleTV+ series Foundation with "In the Spiral", a 2020 song by the band Phantogram.

BONUS POEM:

The Emperor Spirals
by Timothy Donavan Russell

He walks the spiral
Brave emperor
He's a flippin' lobster

Sun is on fire
In the spiral
The music is viral

Chest puffed and nose chapped
Through canyon walls
Burned to both of his--hey!

Though he's dripping song
And giants drop
The Pace will never stop

If you've ever wondered what hypercubes, aka tesseracts, are all about, then this is a good music video for you. If you have no idea what I'm talking about and you don't care for geometry, maybe you should watch this anyway, just to be weird and learn something new. The music incorporates quintuplets, i.e. notes divided into 5 beats. It's actually all in 4/4 at 150 bpm. Video: Tesseracts 101. Music: "The New Quintuplet Swing" (2021).

It's a rolling tesseract making its way through the clouds and across the stars, folks.

It's a spinning, semi-transparent color wheel just making its way through space. That's what's up.

The music, "A Mix of the Best of Music for Art of the Other Wheel", was taken from songs originally commissioned for use as background entertainment at an art show titled "Art of the Other Wheel", which took place September 25th & 26th 2015 at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space in Springfield, Illinois. Those songs were remixed for this video.

Just for fun my significant other and I covered "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy, adapted by us for ukulele and voice. We've also worked up our own renditions of songs by The Doors, Lesley Gore, Depeche Mode, The Moody Blues, and Dolly Parton. The full playlist is here.

All things. Music: "Pursuant". Sources are public domain. Bee nice.

Composed of ten pieces of music and a series of 70 still frame photos of light through glass, this video was part of an art installation on display at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space DREAMSCAPE show, May 31st and June 1st, 2019.

Silent video. I ran this on repeat (along with the two other silent videos here) on a 47" 4K video monitor at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space for the Artext art show, which was August 9th and 10th, 2019. Uses the poem "Minstrel" by Bridget Foley Russell. Used with permission. Uses images scanned from: AN ALBUM OF FLUID MOTION, The Parabolic Press, Stanford, California, 1982, Copyright 1982 Milton Van Dyke. Used legally for presentation under Fair Use.

Minstrel
by Bridget Foley Russell

Give me a song
I feel lost
Give me a song
I want to be transported
Give me a song
I can breathe
Give me a song
I am surrounded by silence
Give me a song
I need reassurance
Give me a song
I crave your touch
Give me a song
I am complete
Give me a song
I am home.

This is a playlist of videos I made in 2018 using a ton of crazy public domain stuff I found. These were commissioned for and projected at the 2018 Dark Arts show, which was currated by Staunzie Grady and took place at Arlignton's Restaurant in Springfield, Illinois.

I made the music used in this drone video by Dave Heinzel for The Studio Show.

Performing on The Studio Show in 2016.

Music video Vincent Sebastian made for one of my pieces of music of the same title.

Windsor for the Derby's song "WNYU Radio" set to scenes of I-55 in Illinois.

Electro-Faustus EF102 Photo Theremin running through wah-wah pedal. Visualization by Rovastar+Geiss (Snapshot Of Space [LSB mix]). This song made it onto the 2014 Just Sign on the Dotted Line various artists compilation CD put out by Electro-Faustus.

It's not completely lifeless. That's all. Cheap, I know. (If this is blocked for you, it's not my bad.)

This began as gift for my brother in 2009; I gave it to him then as a short screen saver for his PC. The animation you see here was produced in 2014, partly using Starry Night Pro 6. Song title: "Lives of the Bloated Gas Giant Suns" (2007). The scene is actually what it would sort of be like to stand on Triton and watch Neptune in the sky--sped up over the course of two months Earth-time, of course.