KenElevenShadows Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 This is a music video for the first song from my first new album in like 150 years, "The Seahorse in the Center of Your Mind". For those who don't know, I create ambient, atmospheric mind-warping music as Eleven Shadows. I feel like the music I make is the sonic counterpart to my night photos. I created the video as well from a variety of sources, including some macro photography videos. Oh, and of course, being a keyboardist, I had to list the keyboards I used! That's in the caption of the video. Album is here. Enjoy! 1 Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 🤙 Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 11 hours ago, KenElevenShadows said: 10 hours ago, KuruPrionz said: 🤙 Thanks! Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Thanks for the music Ken! Here's one of my instrumental pieces. https://metapop.com/opossum-apocalypse/tracks/opossum-apocalypse-long-mix/180793 Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Cool! An unexpected pleasant surprise was having those guitars coming in! Nice! 1 Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 hour ago, KenElevenShadows said: Cool! An unexpected pleasant surprise was having those guitars coming in! Nice! Everything is mostly guitars. The intro is one guitar, there are 2 acoustic guitars and a couple of electric guitars. All the choir and other weird noises are a guitar with a Fishman MIDI pickup on it. The rest is Korg Wavedrum played by me (I looped the main beat), a bass guitar and that's it. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 The link doesn't go the album, it just re-directs back to the forum...I'm particularly interested in seeing the rest of the videos. What did you use to generate the effects? Quote Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 10 hours ago, Anderton said: The link doesn't go the album, it just re-directs back to the forum...I'm particularly interested in seeing the rest of the videos. What did you use to generate the effects? I don't know how that happened. I'm pretty sure I did that link correctly. Anyway, I fixed it. https://elevenshadows.bandcamp.com/releases That's the first and only video I've made. The video is a ton of layering of my own macro videos, approximating "light leaks" and flares by shining lights into my camera, and copyright-free stuff from archive.org and YouTube. I then edit and layer them in Davinci Resolve 17. Below is the unadulterated macro video, also with the same Eleven Shadows song "Marismas Oscuras". Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Because you asked about the video, I have two articles that describe how I do macro photography and create the album covers and all that. This is an overview: Creating an album cover and video for my ambient album https://photofocus.com/photography/creating-an-album-cover-and-video-for-my-ambient-album/ This describes a bit more about how I did the macro photography. Even though in this particular article, I wasn't creating the video, the process is the same. Living large by photographing small: Easy stay-at-home macro photography ideas https://photofocus.com/inspiration/living-large-by-photographing-small-easy-stay-at-home-macro-photography-ideas/ I also should mention that for the macro video that I created for the Eleven Shadows video (previous post), I found that my LED light panel and other lights were not charged. I grabbed a couple of iPhones instead. You really can use any decent light source if you set it up well. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 10:56 PM, KuruPrionz said: Everything is mostly guitars. The intro is one guitar, there are 2 acoustic guitars and a couple of electric guitars. All the choir and other weird noises are a guitar with a Fishman MIDI pickup on it. The rest is Korg Wavedrum played by me (I looped the main beat), a bass guitar and that's it. Oh, I didn't realize it's mostly guitars....or at least, not at first. It morphs into that. Cool!! I need to listen to that again. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 By the way, here's another macro article I wrote for Photofocus, although this doesn't involve moving bubbles. But there's a lot of ways you can create interesting visual images. Macro photography at home: Creating otherworldly scenes with hand sanitizer But if you're limited on time, look at the other two first since those describe how I'm creating macro images for the album cover and the video. Album cover for "Seahorse in the Center of Your Mind" by Eleven Shadows. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 The full Eleven Shadows album "The Seahorse in the Center of Your Mind" is now available for downloading and listening on Bandcamp! Whew! I managed to get everything else done in time! I've been getting a lot of really positive feedback from my musician friends here at home, so I'm hoping that everyone finds it beautiful as well! Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 I finally got a chance to listen. Nice work!!! Notes ♫ Quote Bob "Notes" Norton Owner, Norton Music http://www.nortonmusic.com Style and Fake disks for Band-in-a-Box The Sophisticats http://www.s-cats.com >^. .^< >^. .^< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 5:53 AM, Notes_Norton said: I finally got a chance to listen. Nice work!!! Notes ♫ Cool, thanks, glad you like it! The whole album has been released, and a lot of people seem to be enjoying it. Thanks! Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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