MUSIC VIDEOS & FILMS
The many strange and wonderful instruments I invented and built myself to make Robot Repair’s 3rd album “Splintered Edge” including “The Monster”, “Mini-Monster”, “Springtar” and (favorite name) “Rod Plonker” as well as some percussive field recordings captured with contact microphones attached to milled Hemlock slabs, misc logs and a huge plastic water tank. Thanks to @n4th4nm00dy for specific advice and abstract inspiration while developing these instruments and recording techniques.
AERSA
A short film by Aaron Alden, featuring music from the debut album.
Music & Sound Design: Aaron Alden
AERSA: Anastasia Bezhanova
OKORI: Sabrina Tamar
Costume Design: Katie Martin, Azimuth Atelier
Director, Camera, Editor, VFX: Aaron Alden
Lighting Assistance: Rachel Rampleman
Filmed in Esopus & Brooklyn, New York, Italy (Dolomites), & Colorado (Rocky Mountains).
Canada Shorts: Award of Excellence
Colorado SciFi & Fantasy Film Festival: Best Experimental Short & Excellence in Soundtrack/Music for a Dramatic Short
Sound Unseen: Official Selection
OTHER MUSIC VIDEOS FROM THE ALBUM AERSA
Constant Forces. My first music video from the album AERSA. These images were stills taken on a helicopter tour of the Dolomites. I intended to morph them together in a smooth way representing an exaggerated geographic time-lapse. I was disappointed with the crude morph mistakes at first and set this footage aside. Eventually I came back to it and enjoyed how crude and non-sensical many of the transitions are. I had intended for it to be a natural evolution but its more like a planet-shaping robot trying to build something organic and getting it completely wrong.
Original score for Daniel Garcia’s short, El Cuco is Hungry.
Extended soundtrack available on Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp, Google Play & Tidal.
Angela is a babysitter hired on short notice who finds herself in a strange house with a young boy all alone. She finds Matteo the boy scared and alone and despite her best efforts to calm him down, Matteo won’t go to sleep. He can’t. El Cuco is Hungry. Nitehawk Shorts Festival Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Nightmares Film Festival Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Official Latino Film and Arts Festival
UNDIR ÍSNUM
(Under the Ice) A 5-part ambient music film.
Featuring music from AERSA and Blackfeather.
Filmed in New York and Iceland.
Released midway through 2020, with the world in a suspended state
the majority of us confined to our homes and unsure of what lies ahead,
these films offer meditative moments of contemplation
through a virtual journey to distant landscapes.
Each chapter focuses on one stage of transformation within immense natural cycles.
(Scroll down to watch all five films)