Video
I learned while creating visuals to accompany music. I worked internships to gain a more professional lens into the process of filming and recording audio. I used VDMX to edit video with layers and effects in real time - for concerts, and for the occasional moving mural projection onto the side of a building…
This is a collection of little projects and ideas: partial reflections of the projects and aesthetics I aim to cultivate in years to come.
Tazha the Diviner - Living
A simple, empowering color bath to set the scene for a mantra.
Directed by Cody Burchfield
Cinematography by Aidan Jung. Edited by Aidan/Tazha/Cody
MEMBA
A teaser for a live performance, featuring touch reactive Orb Drums… as if something rather alien appeared in the woods of Oregon.
Directed by Ishaan Chaudhary and Will Curry. Set creation by Cody Burchfield. Filmed and edited by Jordan Tan. Special partnership with Michael Curry Design.
Senior Art Thesis - Video Installation
For my thesis installation, I hung three screens in vertical format, building custom frames to create a very clean and concise presentation of solely the content on the screen and not any of the plastic or wiring involved.
Each screen featured evolving mandalas, as an exploration of bilateral symmetry. A sound cone emitted sound synched to the upper screen. (One composition, named “Bowrain’s Rocks” can be viewed down at the bottom of this page, its gorgeous and alien!)
Visual Textures // Geometric arrangements for “Common Genius”
All video created and edited by Cody Burchfield
visuals to embolden intricate sounds, created from scratch
Incidental Landscapes
Originally performed at Whitman College, as a live performance of both music and video projection using VDMX and a midi controller to weave the video in realtime. The music was composed by Logan Schmidt. (This video features footage from a projection)
Sun-Tzu X MEMBA
I was struck by a desire to film and choreograph movement at three separate tempos, and then bring it all back together in an illusion of a performer’s pace. Sun-Tzu performed the same dance in real time, half-time, and double time. Each time, we projected video and played audio at each corresponding tempo. The end result wasn’t quite as clean as I hoped, so I got pretty playful with the edit!