Earthview Landscape Abstractions 1 - Johann Friedrich Fasch - Trumpet Concerto in D

YouTube ^ | February 15, 2020 | MVD

[mairdie]

First of a sequence of 4 new "landscape as abstract art" music videos of satellite views of earth. Done to Johann Friedrich Fasch - Trumpet Concerto in D, 2nd movement Largo. Some of the colors are created as "false color" but each image has been cropped by Earthview into a spectacular piece of modern art. If I found these in a museum, I'd sit in front of them for hours.

My new Landscape and Earthview Playlist lists all 4, as well as the 2 earlier earthview videos of more recognizable landscape features, and another 4 older landscape videos of mine.

[mairdie]

This first 'Abstract Landscape Art I' still uses cuts. In the following videos you'll see that I've been experimenting with dissolves between images, though it goes against all of my instincts and I'm being pulled into them kicking and screaming.

Since, for me, it's all about where I put the edit points, making them obvious in cuts just feels right. Dissolves, for me, have the problem of fuzzing those decisions. But for people who don't wrestle with those issues, the dissolves just seem to enhance the mood. So I experiment.

[mairdie]

PING to art music video

[Aquamarine]

Well done, really like the contrast of the Abstract art with Classical music.

Was not a fan of Abstract art until recently, am now coming around to liking some of Laurie Grays Impressionist and Abstract paintings after her work showed up in my Facebook feed. She is the daughter of the well known artist Jim Gray.

[mairdie]

I see why you like that abstract. It’s well balanced.

There is so much bad abstract art out there that it used to poison the good stuff for me. Earliest memory was of a piece called Black on Black at the Chicago Art Institute. Sort of the reversal of the white on white embroidery one used to buy for pillow cases. But an immense painting taking up most of the wall????

Music videos let you filter all of the good stuff into a single place. And the music lends the emotion.

[ransomnote]

Absolutely beautiful. After I watched it, I began working on documents and kept replaying the sound track for background music! BEAUTIFUL!

[mairdie]

I do that, too. Right now I’m hearing the Prince of Denmark’s March over and over again in my head, even when it’s not playing on the computer.

I’ve collected all the astronomy images and very excited to see what results from a glorious trumpet voluntary and nebulas and galaxies. Really thrilling!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mairdie.