When I Was Dead by 3c84 (3 min. 2007) Directed, shot, and edited by Lester Alfonso as a music video for the band headed by Charles “Charlie” Glasspool.
Thanks to Charles “Charlie” Glasspool for including me in his music group called 3c84 where I accompanied live performances with video projections and I documented the recording session and provided images for the CD release. I did a few music videos for 3c84 as well, including Alien, Yuri Gagarin’s Lullabye, Let’s See What My Telescope Says. For today, I want to share my favourite of them all: When I Was Dead.
Written by Glasspool, this video shows the live performance by Sarah McInnis on Saturday, May 26, 2007, at the Peterborough Museum, in Peterborough, Ontario. Fireworks unexpectedly went off in the background, beautiful and perfectly timed near the end of her song. I didn’t dare turn the camera around so I added the stock footage of the fireworks later to sync up to the sound.
The project is my weirdo response to a recent scientific discovery…there is a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster (far away!) which has been emitting a Bb note 57 octaves below middle C on piano…this super sub-bass note has been sounding for eons…perhaps forever…this fascinating discovery called many questions to my mind, especially as a musician and composer…the power of this note is also able to heat gases in the galaxy cluster…in essence, it is an active and creative force. Is this note some sort of a musical big bang? these are the sorts of questions I want to investigate in a 57-minute long suite (a minute for every octave) of songs, fragments, incidental music, pre-recorded samples, etc..
Charles “Charlie” Glasspool, 2007
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