Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art

This edition consists of 100 hand-silk screened gate fold LP's with four silk screened DVD covers of original film and music, a 50 page booklet of writing and images bound in a hand letter pressed cover. The project was conceived to publicly showcase emerging and established strains of expanded cinema and music collaboration in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as to create a physical document that captured that energy. Although commissioned as pairs (Craig Baldwin with Maggi Payne; Paul Clipson with Tashi Wada; Lawrence Jordan with John Davis; Kerry Laitala with Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken), the edition is designed so the works can be experienced interchangeably. This encourages a matrix of possibilities, but also emphasizes the element of chance tied directly to live cinema and music performance (dropping the needle on the record and hitting "Play" on the DVD player will always result in a different event). Works: Craig Baldwin: Time Bomb (16mm film on DVD) Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken: After Image (Music) Paul Clipson: Trajections (16mm film on DVD) John Davis: Strategy of Belief (Music) Lawrence Jordan: Driving Demons (16mm film on DVD) Kerry Laitala: Solar Furnace (16mm film projector performance on DVD) Maggi Payne: Black Ice/Static (Music) Tashi Wada: Duet Takes: 1. Duet (Take 2), 2. Duet (Take 4) (Music) Music Mastered by James Plotkin.