I found this early cut of a fan video I made with my friend Julie Drazen for a song called True Dreams of Wichita by Soul Coughing. Julie and I made this in the East Village, New York where we lived at the time in the mid 90s.
Title: The Emperor's New Groove
Album: Stunderthorm
Artist: Johannes Welsch, David Hess, Paul Hinger
Video: Lester Alfonso
Published by Sonic Flame
rhythm pieces and soundscapes
an acoustic recording of drums, gongs, voice and didgeridoo
...and some things it does.
Johannes Welsch demonstrates a Darbuka
Videography by Lester Alfonso
Final groove adapted from "Fruits of Labor" by Glen Velez on "Rhythms Of The Chakras" Filmed and Recorded at the Alien Lab in Ontario, Canada on June 30, 2007.
Sonic Flame
Title: Mandala
Album: Stunderthorm
Artist: Johannes Welsch, David Hess, Paul Hinger
Video: Lester Alfonso
Artwork: Tina Welsch
Published by Sonic Flame
rhythm pieces and soundscapes
an acoustic recording of drums, gongs, voice and didgeridoo
Bancroft asked me to help them create a video entry for TV Ontario's search to find "Ontario's Most Talented Town." This video won first prize and gave Bancroft the right to claim that it is the most talented town in Ontario. I shot it over a day in Bancroft with Chris FitzSimons producing and edited over a weekend to get it in for the Monday morning deadline.
This film is another free service from
www.joshrifkin.co m
created by Ray Harryhausen
recycled by originalplastic
song:"If I Forget" by Josh Rifkin
from the album "Late Bloomer"
film excerpt: Mother Goose Stories (1946)
public domain
thanks to archive.org and Tammy Lin Foreman (2007)
We all had a table, a chair, a telephone and a dancer. We had 15 minutes to plan and shoot it. We had 5 minutes of tape each. 8 films were made. A dance film collective is born. Motion8. Sponsored by Peterborough New Dance and the Peterborough Arts Umbrella. Music by Off the International Radar.
check out:
http://motion8.bl ogspot.com/
for the other films made that night.
Performance by Hijack in Toronto called "Zero" - excerpt here: video projections by Lester Alfonso (also with hula-hoop) and Wayne "WEBmadman" Elliott (music and spoken word) programmed, written, performed, and recorded by Dave Misener. Oct. 2001
Arzoo Dance Theatre - Textures. Choreography by Deepti Gupta. Video and Sound by Lester Alfonso. Performed by Kyla Kowalski, Melissa Kramer and Anjali. Toronto, 2001