P0-35 Speak - city jam
Channel: Missing Reels
Date: 13/01/2019

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I have a 40 minute walk in to work every day and often stare up at the shapes of the concrete buildings, their silhouettes inspiring music as I wander. For my first urban themed jam I decided to turn to my TeenageEngineering PO-35 Speak, it's such a quirky yet funky little synth that it felt perfect  fit to help inject some colour in to the city scape.

This video took me a long time to make, much longer than any of my others. I largely wrote the track and shot the video either from the bus or during/just after my walks to work back in the summer. I then spent far, far too long animating all those colour masks in Premiere (video isn't my forte, so I'm sure I made it harder than it had to be). I also made several aborted attempts at trying to record the performance as I kept getting kicked out of places when I tried to film it (the top of a multi-storey carparks mainly). In the end I actually liked just having the Speak against a plain concrete background, so it may have been for the best that the other recordings failed.

As usual, it was shot on my phone, with help from a gimbal for some of the tracking shots, and recorded with my Zoom h6.