Things have been busy on the web design front. Check out my new mobile-friendly layouts for nellshawcohen.com, composition portfolio, and beyondthenotes.org, home of my online multimedia experiences exploring the visual and performing arts. I’m also excited to share with you two recently completed interactive media projects (below).
The Marin Headlands in Fog
This multimedia installation for the web explores the atmospheric coastal landscape of the Marin Headlands of the San Francisco Bay Area through music and video.
You are invited to choose from nine different viewpoints in the Marin Headlands. Original video footage is looped and accompanied by music I composed for piccolo and piano, performed and recorded in March 2012 at New England Conservatory by Sarah Sullivan and Kristina Nyberg. The immersive format invites focused contemplation of the music and the aesthetic atmosphere of the landscape.
John Heiss on Charles Ives
Artists on Art: John Heiss on Charles Ives examines some of the work of early 20th century American composer Charles Ives through the eyes of John Heiss: a composer, musician, scholar, conductor, and professor at my alma mater, New England Conservatory. My video interview with Professor Heiss in May 2012 at his home in Newton, MA forms the basis of this piece.
John Heiss on Charles Ives is a short web-native or “connected” documentary: it uses the web browser and outside online resources (such as Wikipedia, Spotify, and YouTube) to create a seamless interactive experience giving the viewer jumping-off points to delve in the music and its history.