After Hours #1 - Marco Brambilla at the Roommate Grace Hotel

Materialization/De-materialization, by Marco Brambilla

a video projection on water

with a performance on the organ by Cammisa Buerhaus

Shot and Edited by: Matthew Caron

After Hours is a series of ephemeral installations and performances hidden amongst the Times Square district's diverse venues, recorded for radio and video dissemination. Taking advantage of the twilight moment before midnight, and a surreal array of different settings nestled throughout the Times Square area, the Times Square Alliance and the Clocktower Gallery & ARTonAIR.org come together to offer tantalizing glimpses of these spaces as creative catalysts. Pairing musicians and artists with each of these unique contexts, the artists create work specifically designed to draw on the neighborhood's history as a social and artistic melting pot. The fleeting nature of these late night experiences highlights the power found in taking the synchronicity and spontaneity of an After Hours encounter beneath the bright lights, and using it to inspire and indicate future audio, video, and performance work. Follow Times Square Arts at @TSqArts, @ArtonAir or #AfterHoursTSq

Gypsy & The Cat "It's A Fine Line" Music Video

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Gypsy & The Cat "It's A Fine Line" Alsatian Music, 2013 Directed by Matthew Caron

The Pieces are fading A heart deformed by waiting The thief of time is erasing you

Those people those faces, deep in my mind I hear them parading me tonight.

Am I wasting time if you're in my mind While the moon is ripe above me Well it's a fine line, yea it's a fine line

Look inside spy the clues Candle light across the loom The feeling comes and chases truth...

Assemble X at Knockdown Center

assemblexxx_yfm I curated and performed live visuals for the 10th installment of the ongoing sound and performance series ASSEMBLE, founded by Pat Noecker of RAFT. Projections and video installations were stationed throughout the massive Knockdown Center space by myself, Peter Shapiro, Eric Drasin, Reid Bingham, Sofy Yuditskaya and Matt Romain of Fast Food Music Video.

The musical performance featured Pat Noecker of RAFT leading 16 superb performers in long sustained notes of A and E. The list of performers is as follows:

Alexandra Drewchin JR., Bonnie Baxter, James Corrigan, Jeanann Dara, David First, Kate Henderson, Laura Ortman, Michael Durek, Camilla Ha, Daniel Schlett, Sto Len, Ted McGrath, Jason Poranski, Sadaf H. and Adam Holquist.

Also featured were special performances by Ash Can Orchestra with contortionist The Amazing Amy, and Onewayness from Erie, PA.

Assemble X on Facebook Videos by Torsten Meyer http://unartignyc.com

Fast Food Music Video 2: Caged Animals - Too Much Dark

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I used randomly generated data to edit this video of Caged Animals performing "Too Much Dark" for Fast Food Music Video 2: Not Knowing, Adaptability, The Unified Field. The number of the cuts and the sources were dictated by a data generating patch, leaving me with control over the timing of the cuts. I also elected to make the video monochrome.

This exercise in music video making involved applying chance operations to all aspects of a deconstructed production process. Editing was also subject to randomization in a similar fashion, based on the number of video sources recorded.

For a full list of credits and the data used to edit this video, visit Fast Food Music Video on Tumblr

Shattered Shards: PVRE MATRIX _ HD ACID

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PVRE MATRIX _ HD ACID from Matthew Caron on Vimeo.

Shattered Shards-- the freeform, visual collab curated by wayfaring Brooklyn souls Matthew Caron and Rebecca Gaffney-- is less of a directorial excursion than a freeform video jam session. No more clearly is this seen in their spastic, claustrophobic visuals for Brooklyn's PVRE MATRIX (a.k.a. Daniel Moore). Taken from a set at La Sala, the video is built upon on a frenetic display of glitched video feedback, whip pans around the venue, and mirrored, kaleidoscopic original footage that's all attack and no release, a sound match for PM's tightly coiled, tension-riddled version of industrial music. - AD HOC

HD ACID premiered on AD HOC on February 27, 2013