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porcupine
tree & no-man - gallery
In
2007 and 2009 I was commissioned by British band
PORCUPINE TREE and their art director
Lasse
Hoile to shoot timelapse images for tour films
and music videos promoting their albums FEAR OF
A BLANK PLANET and THE INCIDENT. Hoile heavily
processed these images and mixed them into his
own material.
In
2008 I was invited by Steven Wilson and Tim
Bowness of
NO-MAN to photograph and direct a
music video for a track for their album
SCHOOLYARD GHOSTS. The piece, WHEREVER THERE IS
LIGHT, was also photographed in timelapse in
13:9 aspect, and subsequently animated by me in
16:9. It was included on the DVD release of the
album and on the e.p. of the same name.
The images below are presented without
processing, as they were originally captured.
porcupine
tree - fear of a blank planet
Thematically the brief was to produce
material that showed the
electronic, impersonal environments that children, and
to some extent adults, are increasingly submerged in, and their
subsequent retreat from the 'real world'.
The images featured principally in the
track ANESTHETIZE.
I created my own edit of material, set to a montage of music from
the album, and it can be seen
here
The album is available to buy
here
porcupine tree - time flies - the incident
The brief was to produce material that
captured 'childhood memories of summers past' for a 5 min. edit of
the track TIME FLIES. But as the rain sodden summer of 2009 dragged
on, the emphasis evolved somewhat to include some abstract images
that would also be used in the 12 min. full length version that
featured on the album.
An experiment in 'light writing' on a
windswept Dartmoor night led Hoile to embrace the idea, and he
requested several others that spelt out lyrics from the song.
The
12 min. version may feature on a future DVD. The 5 min. video can be seen
here
The album is available to buy
here
no-man -
wherever there is light - schoolyard ghosts
I was given carte blanche to develop my
own concept for this track. Testing a recently arrived motion
control head in some local woods, I played the results back whilst
listening to the music. Whilst bearing little relation to the song's
theme, the imagery matched remarkably well, particularly with the
steel guitar and Mellotron sound. Two versions were created, a
'sentimental' one that featured video inserts which suggested
connections to the lyrics, and a strictly timelapse version, which
was the one chosen by the band.
The 'sentimental' version can be
downloaded
here. The official version can be downloaded
here, or
seen
here
The album and e.p. are available to buy at Tim Bowness' label
BURNING SHED
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