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March 11, 2015 · 2:24 pm

Messiaen

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Part ii of baker b.’s personal journey through the golden age of synching. Part i can be found here now… link up for several days more on that one. https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/23204/ Regarding the newest batch, we have two movies dubbed by the late music of 20th Century composer Olivier Messiaen. Classical music synchs were rather uncommon in 2000 and 2001, when these were created. Messiaen is one of the giants of the last century, and ranks pretty high on the list, I would assume, among all composers by now.

Messiaen Trek starts out with an accessible piece from Concert à quatre called Vocalise, akin more to Messiaen’s early work. This is overlapped with the Enterprise entering the gargantuan V-jer cloud in Star Trek The Movie. As Kirk then roars out an additional command to go further into the cloud after some debate with others (mainly visiting Comm. Decker) we ride along accompanied by Un Sourire (A Smile) from 1989, composed by Messiaen for the bicentenary of Mozart’s death. The track is suppose to run unbroken in the synch. However, two pieces of the movie are employed here, with the second starting right as Spock’s stolen jetpack fires, flinging him toward the heart of the cloud and the encounter with an emotionless deity.

MessiaenSphere is the natural counterpart to Messiaen Trek. It’s not one I’d recommend for introducing an outsider to the world of synchronicity. It’s not as openly synchy as Messiaen Trek either (which *might* be a good introduction). But MessiaenSphere’s the complement nonetheless. At about 42 minutes it’s almost triple the time of MT. We also travel through water instead of space, but in each there is a critical and climatic encounter with an alien being, a sentient golden sphere from the future in the case of MessiaenSphere. MSphere also involves just one cue, but with some added tricks. The music is Illuminations from the Beyond (1994). Only tracks 1-2, 4-5, and 7-8 are used in the synch, with 3 and 6 cut away. The second trick is the bleeding through of 6 stretches of dialog, with the music still playing in the background.

I’ll leave it at that — see what you think. I’d definitely start with M Trek here, and then move on to MSphere if you enjoy the music and find the concept interesting. Otherwise I’d save your eyes for other synchs — don’t force the enjoyment. smile emoticon This will be up for about 7 days, once more. Enjoy if you can and if you wish!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/16e82o7pxx6snzo/AAAnNslt1EKGk8Xya8_Qqnhka?dl=0

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March 11, 2015 · 5:21 am

Carrcasses 08

(joined in progress)

Carr.:

It’s too risky right not [sic?] to proceed with Operation Reveal All. You could stop at level 1, but that wouldn’t be telling the whole truth. It would be just like before.

bb:

I could simply give one example during the podcast… set up a diff. [delete name] account. Maybe ESBUM.

Carr.:

Let’s see (checks notes), that would be Carrcass+0 and Carrcass-0 together.

bb:

Correct.

(Carrcassonnee goes back to her notes to check more)

Carr.:

That might work. A selection of works. Like [P-Twisters]. Pick out landmark works like the first synch to cover a whole movie, and the first 2 movie synch. Put the archive in a separate place, out of reach.

—–

bb:

I know who you are.

Carr.:

Yes, I am her.

bb:

When you married Perch, then you became her.

Carr.:

Yes (pause).

—–

It was an interesting visit with Carrcassonnee, per usual. Slowly I’m formulating a new plan regarding the protection of Carrcassess… her after all. Regarding Drink Lake, I asked about Straw Hole. She responded that the hole is not the whole[ town]. I asked her about the skunk. She said the skunk and Straw Hole are tied. She said to focus instead, for now, on Ditchlandia. Figure out what that’s all about. The TILE Temple is the lake, she said. We are all here to help you. Then it ended.

—–

The upper floor of the Red Umbrella is empty, just waiting around patiently for new collages. But now they might not come until the summer or autumn. Shoot, I forgot to ask Carr. about a visitor named Umbrellastar. I tracked him to Heterocera’s Pond District. Another spy?

Meditation Mound

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March 10, 2015 · 11:46 pm

Pictures 02

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March 10, 2015 · 12:52 pm

Veyot teaches machinima

https://www.tumblr.com/veyot/113165709555/aunt-veyots-machinima-class

https://www.tumblr.com/veyot/113262704435/machinima-making-part-two

I would like to create a video tour of Collagesity sometime. Perhaps go up and down the forest Diagonal.

Thanks again!

Example:

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March 10, 2015 · 9:49 am

Not Tronesis but Biotronesis

http://biotronesis.com/about/

I will be discussing the a/v synch Tronesis soon.

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March 10, 2015 · 7:42 am

Early Floyd

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Okay, here’s the first batch of historic synchs by baker b. during his journey through our golden age of synching. I’ll leave the links up for about a week at a time. Again, I post these for EDUCATIONAL purposes only… I’ve NEVER made a cent off of the synching hobby that I recall. It’s a labor of luv.

To disappoint some, perhaps, I’m going to leave out the DSotR/Rainbow Sphere tension story that takes place at the beginning of my synching experience in the later 90’s, and jump into the next century with…

Piper’s Nightmare Christmas, Full of Secrets (2000, 2001)

These were created about 8 months apart as I recall, but yet they can be treated as a set. PNC is one of the first synchs that I knew about using early Floyd for the audio, in this case the Piper at the Gates of Dawn album, their first and also Syd Barrett’s showcase work. We start not at track one, however, but five: Pow R. Toc. H. This synchs quite nicely with the opening of the film. This is, in Randy T.’s words, a one drop synch in that you cue the audio and video together at a certain spot and just sit back and enjoy. You’re finished with the manipulation aspect. Let the album just play till it’s ended, through tracks 6-11. Now this is a bit different from DSotR in that I used an internal cue where the movie shifts in focus during the bridged transition between tracks 7, the fabulous Interstellar Overdrive, and track 8, The Gnome. The tracks on the far side of this are lyrics oriented, and music slanted on the near side, so the tone of the synch changes considerably as well at this midpoint.

I watched PNC yesterday again for the first time in quite a while. Like I said track 5 still works pretty great, but track 6 doesn’t have much to match with in the video. We rebound in track 7 with a nice opening, and I think that one works all the way through if you imagine that we are continually following Jack during his journey toward and into Christmastown. I personally see Jack Pumpkinhead, the star of the movie, as a Syd Barrett figure, successful as an underground star in The Pink Floyd Sound but falling into the traps opened up by more commercial success with Pink Floyd. Jack’s crazy attempts to merge Xmas and Halloween mirrors Barrett’s inability to blend fame with creative purity.

I see Full of Secrets as a direct follow up/culmination, with Twin Peaks Black Lodge as the place of descent. Like doppleganger “bad” Agent Cooper catches and replaces the good Cooper at the end of the synch/video, so Barrett loses the battle with sanity at the end, mirrored in the strange structure of “Jugband Blues” from the Saucerful of Secrets album. The center of Full of Secrets, however, is the superb title song from this 2nd Floyd album, the followup to Piper but with limited Barrett input. Again we do not start at track 1 for the synch, but 4 in this case (Corp. Clegg), and also skip track 6, See Saw, to reach the end of the synch and the album and the tv series.

See what you think. Keep in mind again this is a rip from a VHS Tape and also any editing is done the old fashion analog way.

You should be able to see both synchs in full using “previews” with this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m7bmp31zy42ozwl/AACNj8gBlbnH83_YTQu8UETXa?dl=0

Let me know if these don’t work for anyone and I’ll attempt another route.

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March 9, 2015 · 7:44 am

Back Outdoors (!) 02

Heading toward Head Lake from the west, passing through the northern fringe of Boulder (town).

Interesting landscaping along the way on private property. I’m taking notes on stuff like this for potential future landscaping around our Middletown home we plan to build about 7-10 years down the road.

Barrier trees fronting a pond complete with 2 actual and functional swans.

I startled these matching black and brown dogs while hiking past them, unnoticed for a minute. They were busy playing in a pile of mulch. But boy did they became more interested in me and what I was doing in a heartbeat! Dogs are kind of fun at times. And funny.

This is an orange leech stream oozing from Head Lake Dam.

This is the falls caused by the spillover of same. Quite pretty. I don’t have a name for the water drop yet. How about Head Falls? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL_JDtVbww

Lone island of Head Lake. There’s a story there as well. A kind of spooky one, if my memory is to be at all trusted.

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March 9, 2015 · 7:40 am

Back Outdoors (!)

Eastern side of Drink Lake in the background, and doggy bowl with frozen water in the foreground. The cold is yielding to warmth finally, however. Spring has sprung!

Drink Lake looking east, with Pencilinsula in the center, former home of the Quadrobeavs. In the Collagesity Temple, Pencilinsula *might* be represented by the alcove containing Carrcassonnee, chief town deity. She does not have a sticky out rock, however, but a pet: Spider (dog). In 12 Oz Mouse, Spider screams when Roostre asks if he’s playing Hayes. To remind, Rutherford “Booger” Hayes is the first president of the United States to never be the president of the United States.

Pencilinsula from the opposite shore, rock pointed straight toward us. The rock has also been referred to as The Point of The Wall. If Carrcassonnee = Pencilinsula, then this position would stand for The Bobs of Collagesity Temple. Interesting.

Still moving along the south side of the lake in a westward direction, I soon encountered, judging by the smell, what I’m pretty sure is a skunk hole, as seen through the fence surrounding Drink Lake. I will obviously be avoiding this opening in the future.

And this is nearby *Straw* Hole, like a straw inserted in a drink. You can even seen Drink Lake (Aqua) within. This seems to connect to the insane machinations of Kerchal countering those of calm Carrcassonnee. Insanoflex… defeated by Drink in Carrcass-0. “Keep playing your dumb ass song.” And this has something to do with a more internal battle between Shake and Jesus for control of this alcove inside the Collagesity Temple. Does Jesus respect or accept the TILE religion? A question to be asking.

Hole is accompanied by Hill… well, a rock. This is the site of some kind of future TILE Temple fer sure.

Sort of pathway into this central area containing the hole.

Eastside, Straw Hole — which is apparently also the name of the community surrounding the hole. Appropriate. (note: Hucka Doobie states this is incorrect, and that he will give out an official name in due time) There’s another rock.