"Narrates Thru Golden Doors"

a short 1 minute clip from the forthcoming feature length film to accompany the blessed CEP presentations in January.
Possibility of a debut at the WhiteRoom/Poly at Falmouth as part of the CEP Presentation launch programme.
This Motion Picture Soundtrack was brought to you through the RP80 guitar effects pedal; albeit no longer a reliable source of sound modification-> mutation->translation as one of the main lef/right buttons has 'caved in'to the machine itself as is almost nigh-on impossible to shift back into place. Will have to seek specialist advice upon returning to Blighty.)

The sound recorded at the time and on the original unadulterated/not from concentrate footage had picked up an distasteful amount of windnoise. So, by firstly slowing the footage down twice- which is both an visual and audible shift/change/alteration/mutation, I then plugged in my effects pedal and began playing and replaying the clip changing each time the number of the effect {the range from 1 to 80, although most sound very similar}. Eventually, I narrowed down my four favourites that gave the most interesting 'mutation'modification to the footage sound.The chosen effect numbers were:
59 66 67 77
{Particular notable favourite is 67 because of its sonic quality resembling that of both birdcalls and American military marching band fifes and whistles; both of which are qualities I am in the process of perfecting through computerized manipulation. On top of this, I believe that the octaves/'notes' effect 67 cycles through are the same as for "Taps" ~ the American verison of the British 'The Last Post' which was coincidentatly played at the folding of the white hart flag during the penultimate part of WaterWorks back in the Old Country, June 2010. Perhaps on return to Falmouth we can ask Eliot to replay the tune, but modify it live through the effects pedal and then overlay onto the recorded footage you hear on the clip below- also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taps_on_bugle.ogg for a quick reminder of the tune and then compare with listening to the footage}

Order of modification->mutation->translation of the video from raw stills camera footage involved first tarnslation of file format into one recognisable by Windows Movie Maker.
Then, through experimentation with various clips and the video effects upon them resulted in my favouring the 'Slow Motion, Half' ~ 'Very Old Movie' ~ 'Threshold' and 'Posterize'. Reasons or rather 'agenda' for such modification stems from the continued exploration of the futile{?} attempt to return to the real from the hyperreal
+ the social reseach of deception via the virtual mediums of sight and sound, with the hope of encouraging and provoking the audience to question the value and "authenticity" of what they being rpesented with what they are being told is being presented- between their projection, mine and social construction ~
{all under deconstruction}.

Having experimented with using the 'original footage' of Ellis Island immigrant embarkings, there was very little I was able to modify that would alter the footage to such a degree of bearing some personal artistic seal.
However, it suddenly struck me that instead of altering the 'original' why not later the 'new' footage to give the appearence of being 'old'/'vintage'/'authentic' {language game superlatives etc.}?
By careful adjusting the black and white/greyscale grain of the two ages of footage am I able to mutate and equate the two ages into an indistinguishable parallevel of 'timeless classics' and 'enforcenticity'.

The raw footage/clips are of the walk from the boat towards the famous 'golden doors' of Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants passed through to be exmained, questioned and eventual approved entry into the United States of America.

Conerning the development of this footage, aside from the coupling of the modified 'new' and 'old' footage, the film will be projected and I performing with it- possibly with Melodica or other musicians playing along to the 'soundtrack' or manipulating the soundtrack live {should the effects pedal function again proper}.
I feel that to further explain my process of 'mutation'/translation and modification of image/sound I need to show clips of the 'original' raw footage at some instances in order for the audience to gain a comparative view... is it possible to create a visual and audiable 'comparative text' from the ordered sucession of image and sound?