Mark Breedlove

I have a number of sound recordings posted on Freesound but this most recent one is one of my favorites so far.

In December, 2008, I co-engineered a recording session for the band Killer BOB along with Joe Plourde at the New School. Later, in January of 2009, I made the following mixes.

I've been plagued by uncertainty over this student film I made when I was as student at the New School. Whether or not to post it ... whether or not I even like it ... feeling it was something of a face-plant. I had put it away for a long time, until recently viewing and listening to it again. I was told a couple of months ago by my film instructor, in whose class I edited the film, that she uses it in her classes as an example of the use of sound with regard to editing. That made me really happy and helped to motivate me to continue my work in this area.

A 1-minute 16mm film, made from optically-printed elements of original footage. I spent about three months on the project, printing, re-photographing, and re-printing elements of film that I had shot earlier. I eventually went as far as cutting my own negatives at the project's completion. Turns out there aren't any more negative cutters in New York anymore — times are changing — time to DIY. Optical printing for me is like creating a really large painting while viewing its parts through a microscope. It's interesting to set a world in motion the parts of which you've only seen in closeup; and then step back and see the whole thing functioning on its own.