Category Archives: moving image

video works, films and documentation

teufelsberg listening station

By jgrzinich | Published: February 10, 2010
It was a busy week in Berlin but one of the nice surprises was a visit to Teufelsberg, a former NSA ‘listening station’ that has been abandoned since the wall came down. This small complex of buildings sits on top of an artificial mountain of rubble left over from the second world war. A group [...]
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tendencies of infinite expansion

By jgrzinich | Published: January 5, 2010
video project and installation presented at Westwerk Gallery, Hamburg Germany December 12-17, 2002 ‘tendencies of infinite expansion’ looks at the finer qualities of flow dynamics and of materials in the solid, liquid and gaseous states; observing transitional air and noise fields of slowly shifting layers and changing densities. For me, this experiment marked another phase in an ongoing [...]
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new maps of time, prague / kladno

By jgrzinich | Published: October 27, 2009
New Maps of Time sound workshop Praha / Kladno Czech Republic ‘New Maps of Time’ is a project and workshop about mapping architectural and urban spaces using sound as a means to express actions within a space. read more… Workshop Dates: 9-13th October 2009 Festival Dates: 10-16th October in collaboration with FAMU, Skolska28, Open EYE project, Four Days in Motion [...]
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mutopia

By jgrzinich | Published: September 9, 2009
Over the past year I’ve been developing a workshop concept that involves a whole range of ideas. The workshop known as “Mutopia” started somewhat accidentally last year at MoKS summer symposium AVAMAA when I decided to collaborate with Tero Nauha, a researcher and performance artist from Finland. We both had our own workshop plans but [...]
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tape, wind and wire soundmix #1

By jgrzinich | Published: July 22, 2009
New video up. This is a straight forward sound mix made in my backyard using both live mics and contact mics. No post-processing or composing was done. A higher quality version is available on my Vimeo page. The video was from hand held material recorded on a panasonic digital camera.
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location sound films @ liquid architecture

By jgrzinich | Published: July 6, 2009
The Location Sound Films installation will be exhibited during the Liquid Architecture festival in Australia. The festival is one of the largest events of its kind showcasing sound related art and experimental music in seven cities across the continent. Details for the exhibition is as follows: Alan Lamb | Rosalind Hall | Dale Gorfinkel | Peter Blamey [...]
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revenant : saaropera

By jgrzinich | Published: December 3, 2008
video of a revenant sound action made in the hollow metal shell of an electrical substation on lake peipsi near the russian border. the participants are eamon sprod (tarab), maksims shentelevs, kaspars kalnins and myself. recorded november 16, 2008. note the sound of ducks flying overhead towards the end.
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and/OAR video gallery

By jgrzinich | Published: August 6, 2008
Dale Lloyd has put together a nice set of video works on the and/OAR site he’s culled from the YouTube plethora. Its nice to get the occasional “curated” perspective as there always seems to be some new material to discover through someone elses view. Unfortunately, my complaints with YouTube are about the poor image and [...]
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tuned city : berlin

By jgrzinich | Published: June 27, 2008
Next week I will be in Berlin for the Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation event which involves 5 solid days of conferences, exhibitions and performances. I will be exhibiting video material compiled from my ongoing Location Sound Films project. I have put together two short films, one based on recordings from [...]
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animate structures #1

By jgrzinich | Published: March 14, 2008
New video up on YouTube that documents some of my latest recording activities. I’ve decided to call this series ‘animate structures’ rather than phenomenological.
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what is the sound of 21st century folk music?

By jgrzinich | Published: January 20, 2008
a workshop and performance event Participants: John Grzinich, Siim Angerpikk, Toomas Thetloff, Evelyn Müürsepp, Anna Hints, Merili Sulg, Liina Lepik, Sveta Bogomolova, Mari Jõgiste, Maarja-Liisa Plats Workshop Dates: Sun-Wed 13.1.08 – 17.1.08 17.1 public performance – Eesti Rahva Museeum (Estonian National Museum) In asking the question, “What is the sound of 21st century folk music?”, we are positioning [...]
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maaheli editions

By jgrzinich | Published: December 8, 2007
maaheli editions is a platform for releasing personal or collaborative experimental productions of maaheli studio. These releases are not subject to any medium, schedule or plan. maaheli is my own compound creation made from two other Estonian words, maa (land, earth, country) and heli (sound). It means sound of the earth or sound of the land [...]
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