Birdwise

Pages linking to my art, music and writings. Periodic updates and random posts of things that interest me.

Art, Music, Text

Links to websites featuring art, music and text by me.

Video Art and other visual media. 

Excerpts of old work, new work and work in progress:

http://vimeo.com/birdwise

A music video I co-directed and edited for Warp Records artist Babe Rainbow (Cameron Reed):

http://vimeo.com/23022124

Music. 

Various bands and projects I am involved with:

Ross Birdwise : solo material by me, usually in an experimental electronic vein…

http://soundcloud.com/ross-birdwise

Gyre :  free-improv/noise/ambient/dance music/jazz

http://gyrebc.bandcamp.com/

if then do : noise/glitch/ambient

http://ifthendo.bandcamp.com/

Ejaculation Death Rattle : noise/improv/psych/dance music

http://ejaculationdeathrattle.com/

hmbkr : laptop improv quartet

http://disquiet.com/2011/09/06/hmbkr-radius/

Writing.

My master’s thesis paper, “Stillness and Movement Studies:  Portraiture, Identity, Time”, which discusses, among other things, some of my video art work and its relationship to some of the ontological and temporal ideas discussed in the work of philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ecuths&CISOPTR=124&CISOBOX=1&REC=3

An A/V presentation originally developed for the conference A Time of Revolution and a Revolution of Time, it takes some of the ideas in my masters thesis as a point of departure:

http://birdwise.tumblr.com/presentation

Other things.

An essay on a video art installation I did in 2005:

http://www.gallery101.org/content.php?lan=en&col=4&sub=birdwise&act=exhibitions&lev=1