Locus Sensum is an ongoing series based on short 1-2 minute portraits of places through single take video images and on location sound recordings.
moving image
41 posts
Reflections on a January-February 2017 residency at Platform in Vaasa Finland where I investigated and observed the relations between ice and culture.
'transduction twentyfifteen', a short film featuring sound recordings by: John Grzinich, Simon Whetham, Eamon Sprod, Jim Haynes, Rostislav Rekuta, Dawn Scarfe and Yiorgis Sakellariou.
Curonia is a film that focuses on sound and listening to the landscape around Nida on the Lithuanian coast
'Listening in Context' film and project made during the Sound Development City artist expedition in 2014
Report from the 'Sounding Gdansk' workshop held during the Soundplay festival in Gdansk Poland, June 2014
"trace effects, crystalline particles" is the first piece in a series of works made from a single camera shot and a single audio (field) recording. No generative or digital effects were used in the recording or editing process.
Workshop held in Prague where we explored a series of combinations and intersections between drawing, gesture and sonic representation.
During the week of April 11-17th, I spent the week in an area of Nuremberg known as Muggenhof, as part of a mini-Tuned City event.
Anamorphic Eye was one of my first video and sound works, produced back in late 2000. The images are of tea and organic debris floating in water while the sound is a mix of electronically generated tones using supercollider and field recordings. I attempted to connect the natural chaotic course […]
Overview of my film 'sound aspects of material elements', produced from 2006 to 2010, released on DVD in 2012.
Video work from my stay stay at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin just north of San Francisco.
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 […]
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 […]
Mutopia is a process oriented workshop environment that explores collaboration, collective creativity and open forms of authorship. This is done through social and environmental research, exercises, games and the use of mixed artistic media such as sound, collage, text, performance etc...
What you hear is a live sound mix made in my backyard using both live mics and contact mics, run simultaneously through a portable mixer. No post-processing or composing was done. The video was edited from hand held material recorded on a cheap panasonic digital camera. More videos available on […]
Formica aquilonia or Red Wood Ant is a species of ant commonly found in the area where I live. The ant colonies are easily recognizable by the large mounds that they build out of debris from the pine forests they inhabit. The mounds also tend to be clustered together. I’m […]
Video that documents some of my latest recording activities using installed wires, strings and resonant objects. I’ve decided to call this series ‘animate structures’ rather than phenomenological because it reflects more of the ‘living’ nature of what we hear in this installation as it responds to environmental conditions. The audio […]
approximate time: 1 hour thermodynamic+graphic : light, heat, noise, basic forms, complexity patterns There are five parts to this sound and 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MoKS ja Y- galerii esitlevad: Y kohtumine teisipäeval 27.novembril kell 18.00 Y-galeriis Tartus. Kolmanda Y kohtumise sisustab John Grzinich. Sellel õhtul toob John lagedale oma kõige värskema loomingu ja kaasab kokkutulnud kodanikud filmiaktsiooni. John kõneleb enda praeguse aja töödest ja esitleb esimest osa oma uuest filmist ‘mimema’. See 22- minutiline […]
sound+video presentation presented at Stazione Topolo 2003 | PostsovkoZ 3/Territories, Estonia Equal and Distant Lines is one aspect of the larger Time [::] Frames project. Time [::] Frames investigates, analyzes and reflects on the process of living and working in a mobile context using the broad context of the current […]
Clinamen Tides – is a scored performance piece which combines amplified and acoustic sounds, recordings and objects, structure and improvisation. Multiple small speakers disperse the sound throughout the room and among the audience, with an emphasis on listening and movement. The artists will play recorded sounds, found materials and homemade […]