Airborne Transmissions (a selected mix), 2021

How to Lose What We Have (in our hands)

Contains elements from:
In Our Hands: How to Lose What We Have (1950), Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.,
American Economic Foundation (Inland Steel Co. & Borg-Warner Corp.);
You're No Good (1965), National Film Board of Canada;
The Terrible Truth (1951), Sidney Davis Productions;
Ants: Nature’s Craftsmen (1920), Pathe Studios;
To Market, To Market (1942), General Outdoor Advertising Company;
Discovering Dark and Light (1965), Phoenix Films;
Sections (1947), CRM Films.

Feeding Frenzy

Feeding Frenzy
How it must be to swim among your kind,
Dull with the cold and dreary with the dark,
Enclosed above, beneath, before, behind
-Charles Wharton Stork (1917)

Contains elements from:
"Attack Patterns of Sharks"
Indiana University (1966)

bruxJaw

A test of violent paperwork
for the alpine climbing idea man.
Discovering,
Staggering,
Falling.
The waves break south.
The last fragments of Who?

To Be Determined

Contains Elements of:
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats, 11/20
MUSIC:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 10, 3rd Movement (Purgatorio)
Philadelphia Orchestra (1968)
Eugene Ormandy, conductor

Objects

MUSIC: “My Favorite Things”, Andre 3000, from The Love Below, LaFace/Arista, 2003; “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”, Bobby Bryant, from Earth Dance, World Pacific Jazz, 1969; “Going Outta My Head” , Les McCann, Live at the Bohemian Caverns - Washington DC, Limelight, 1967. VIDEO: “Problems in Housing”, Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1944; “Our Food and Our Health”, Department of Defense, 1948. PHOTOS: Courtesy of the Milwaukee Historical Society

Fin de Siecle

From the Archives: This is the audio score that I completed for an experimental horror short back at the end of 2019. I'm not sure if it's available online anywhere to watch, but here's what it sounded like.

Out, Out, Brief Candle

Contains Elements from:

“Experimental Psychology of Vision” Columbia University, 1941 “How the Eye Functions” KK Bosse/Knowledge Builders, 1941 Music: Nico and the Velvet Underground vs Panjabi MC “All Tomorrow’s Parties (Dan Mancini edit)”

The City

1 in 5 Milwaukee city workers live outside its borders, including about 1 in 3 firefighters and police officers.
The 75 year-old residency law was removed in 2013 by a WI state law, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court.

This is a response to the effects of lifting that requirement.

First Dream

A visual haiku about modern liminal states of being.

Contains Elements From:

“Industrial Power”
National Security Council, 1957
“Birds of Prey”
ERPI Classroom, 1938
“Tien Shan Gong Zhu”
Wan Brothers, 1941
“Tobacco and the Human Body”
Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1954
‘”Instructing the Blind Worker on the Job”
US Dept. of Education, 1944
“The Bed You Sleep In”
Directed by Jon Jost
Complex Corporation/Vanguard Cinema, 1993

Music:
“Cross Breeding”
Ornette Coleman
from “Ornette on Tenor” (1962)
Progetto TNT Jazz

As They Rode Along the Edge

Memento Mori

An experimental short for UWM
made in collaboration with Ariana Strupp.

Come Boss. Come Bell (short film)

A murder ballad.

Written, directed and edited by Aaron McDowell
Starring Corey Ochoa and Jacob Schaumberg-Dineen

Music:
"The Hangman's Tree" by Andrew Rowan-Summers
Columbia, 1940

"Sarasate: Ziegeunerweisen, Opus 20, No. 1"
London Symphony Orchestra
Jascha Heifetz, Violin
John Barbirolli, Conductor
Victor Records, 1937

In the Arms of Morpheus (Short Film)

A short film about a young girl who lives on the fringe of society.
Starring Kenzie Hack, and featuring Riley DeLuca
Directed by Aaron McDowell
IMDB

A Messenger Has Arrived

The rabble call him lord;
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word...

Found Sound - Phase 1

"What comfort to this great decay may come Shall be applied.


For us, we will resign During the life of this old majesty."