by Rees Shad | Feb 16, 2021 | Installations, Uncategorized, Videos
A Child’s Christmas in Wales – read by Rees Shadsm
Growing up my family celebrated Christmas with all the trimmings, but my wife and I raised our kids in her faith – Judaism. Every year I had one christmas tradition, however, the reading of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Sometimes I would read it to the kids, sometimes just my wife and I would read it together, and other years we roped in a larger group to share in the reading. This past year, with Covid and everything, the family couldn’t get together. So I recorded it and shared it with everyone.
by Rees Shad | May 22, 2019 | Installations, Music
In 2009, I announced to friends and colleagues (in my most cavalier fashion) that I would commence work on a new Fester Spunk project ….composing a score for the 1920 Wegener film ‘The Golem.’ I set to work and quickly became overwhelmed with the enormity of an 84 minute piece. Over the decade since I have gone back to the project, playing with the mix, adding new parts, reworking others, or finding ways of repurposing parts of the work for other projects such as Songs of Extinction Theatrical compositions and tracks on other Fester Records such as Spackle & Glue, How to Combat Ghosts & Interference, and Tech Tonic. In the midst of end of term madness this Spring I opened up the ProTools project for the film and recognized that in fact with a little tweaking the piece was complete! It was the perfect distraction from my research, and actually recharged the batteries to get me through on all my assignments as well as the soundtrack.
An associated album is in the works, and I am now looking for a place to present the work
by Rees Shad | Jan 15, 2019 | Furniture, Installations
The Nurturing Nature show in 2008 was an exhibition at the Art Mission in Binghamton, New York where I was provided the opportunity to bring together a number of my interactive installations and develop several new pieces.
a folding slide screen of my adopted family
The newer work involved large wooden screens that I designed to hold film slides of collected portraits from my two families (my birth family and my adopted family). These folding screens were presented with projection systems back lighting them for audiences to better examine their content. In addition, I created two large solid screen portraits of my two mothers.
solid portrait screen of my birth mother
by | May 14, 2017 | Installations
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A project created in graduate school to explore interface design. This 18th Century harp was found at an estate sale and converted to a thaumotropic instrument controlled by a smaller light sensor harp. An incredibly entertaining exploration for yours truly.
by | May 14, 2017 | Installations
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This is a strange little contraption that I dreamt up involving a Kaleidoscopic camera system mounted over a video display and mirrored table. The resulting distortion one sees when viewing prepared video throughout he viewfinder mirror the distortions I was seeing in media and political rhetoric at the time.
by | May 14, 2017 | Installations
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24 hours in the life of my bed. This surveillance film shows my cat and dogs in occupation of the most comfortable surface in the building…while I am work, as well as at home – asleep.
Usually projected onto a dog bed in a darkened room, this installation was created using several surveillance cameras (infrared, and traditional, connected to a standard VHS recording system used in stores around the world.
