Category Archives: moving image

video works, films and documentation

tuned city : berlin

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 Estonia [...]
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animate structures #1

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?

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?”, [...]
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maaheli editions

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 [...]
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YouTube video collection

I’ve set up a jgrzinich profile on YouTube to showcase some of my artwork with sound related video. Some of the works are older, dating from around 2002 and some were completed recently. The focus is on abstraction, field recording, performance and site-specific activity. The quality of course is limited but it should give you [...]
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thermographic sequences

approximate time: 1 hour thermodynamic+graphic : light, heat, noise, basic forms, complexity patterns There are five parts to this video work. The first focuses on a montage of electronic wave forms from an analogue oscilloscope monitor. The second is a literal use of water waves taken from the Elbe and slowly abstracted over time. Thirdly, [...]
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scaling microspace

scaling microspace aims to closely examine and expose through digital audio and video media the ordinary and often hidden aspects of a community, territory or event. In this case it was Stazione Topolo/Postaja Topolove 2002 in Topoló Italy. During my two week stay in Topoló I recorded and mixed all the source material on site. [...]
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riga sound locations

Riga Sound Locations was a four day workshop that took place at various spaces around the city of Riga, Latvia. The project starts with the concept of site-specific artistic activity while integrating contemporary sound recording practices that cover areas of “performance”, “field recording”, “improvisation” and “documentation”. With the site being the prime focus, the artist [...]
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animated still sequences – 2005

These videos are from a series of works using stills taken with a digital camera. The stills were combined into a single video stream. Two of these videos contain an original soundtrack. Click on the image to open the video in a new window. EKU Sequences – A document of a series of actions conducted [...]
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location sound films

sound+video works DVD During the spring and summer of 2006 a number of visiting artists came to take part in a residency or event at MoKS, an artist-run center in the rural south-eastern part of Estonia. My intention was to record the sounds as well as images of the events, collaborations and investigation which took [...]
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ant hill activity

Last spring I started to document my sound recording activities with a video camera (many times recording the audio directly to the camera). This material eventually developed into the Location Sound Films project. After collecting a wide amount of material from field recordings, natural phenomenon, found objects and site-specific activity, I started to try and [...]
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