This is a looking back entry for this spring. Video collaboration with Benoit Granier was featured at the Athena Festival on 3/15/2009 at Murray State University (Murray, KY USA). Curator for the multimedia concert on the festival was Sebrina Pena Young.

Post Script: Good friend of mine Benoit Granier and I were chatting about music and just life in general one night. The topic of us collaborating on a video project came up. Knowing Ben and I had very different artistic viewpoints, I was a little hesitant to commit to the project. I did not want to ruin our friendship over a collaboration after all. But I was also interested to see how this project would turn up with our very different approaches. To make a long story short, he made the 3D animation and I made the music for ‘Made in…”. It was a fast and efficient project – we completed the piece in a few very intense days. Through the process, we became more familiar with each other’s working mode and got to communicate a lot. We could see how we might improve the piece, but we decided to create a suite of related pieces instead of going back to fix the one we had just made. It is a tiring thing to have to go back and fix things. Usually for me, when a piece is done, it is pretty much done. But anyway, it was a great experience.