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tim nelson: in memory of richard wright Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 595 seconds A live improvisation in memory of Richard Wright, RIP. (The music was played live; the video was shot with two cameras and then cobbled together...) Related: floyd, looping, mellotron, nelson, pink, progressive, psychedelic, richard, theremin, tim, wright |
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tim nelson: ramapithecus Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 216 seconds A track from the CD 'animalvegetablemine ral' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) with public-domain stop-motion animation from 1926. Related: ambient, animalvegetablemineral, caveman, evolution, loop, nelson, tim |
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tim nelson: sunyata Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 383 seconds The hidden bonus track from the CD 'animalvegetablemine ral' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) with public-domain footage of the workings of the ear. Sean Byrne plays drums on this one. Related: animalvegetablemineral, atlas, byrne, chain, collective, mellotron, nelson, sean, sunyata, tape, tim, twin |
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tim nelson: xylem Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 232 seconds A cut from the CD 'Rantai' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) illustrated by footage shot at Crescent Beach, Cape Elizabeth, ME. Tim Nelson actually appears in this video, if you look hard enough. Played on nylon-string acoustic guitar, silver flute and shakuhachi. Related: acoustic, ambient, flute, looping, nelson, psychedelic, rantai, shakuhachi, tim, xylem |
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tim nelson: tungsten Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 226 seconds A track from the CD 'Mesh', available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson and from the usual download vendors. Animation done in Photoshop and Sony Vegas. Played on a Larrivee parlor acoustic guitar. Related: acoustic, ambient, guitar, mesh, nelson, tim, tungsten |
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tim nelson: live at the zeitgeist gallery 29 April 2003 Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 521 seconds Excerpt from Boston-area TV show 'Our Town' featuring host Art Foley introducing an edited set by Tim Nelson from the 'Sonic Blender' event at the Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA Related: art, blender, dijkstra, foley, jorrit, live, looping, nelson, sonic, tim, zeitgeist |
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Heavens to Murgatroid: Blood Transfusion Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 245 seconds Live performance at Bunratty's, Boston, MA on November 8th, 1991 from the lineup that brought you the album "!": Rick Twombly on vocals and guitar, Tim McCoy on bass and vocals (lead vocal on this one), Alan Jordan on drums and Tim Nelson on guitar and vocals. Related: alan, blood, heavens, jordan, mccoy, murgatroid, nelson, nh, portsmouth, prospective, record, rick, rock, tim, transfusion, twombly |
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tim nelson: folding chloe's clothes Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 326 seconds A track from the CD 'animalvegetablemine ral' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) set to public-domain footage of a couple dancing through the 1957 line of Frigidaire appliances Related: ambient, chloes, clothes, dryer, folding, laundry, nelson, progressive, tim, washer |
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tim nelson: sinusoidal stake Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 213 seconds Live looping with a modified Washburn Monterey acoustic/electric through a bunch of looping pedals. This track appeared on the Chain Tape Collective's CT-Live album. Related: chain, collective, ct-live, looping, metalsmith, nelson, sinusoidal, stake, tape, tim |
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tim nelson: vermeil Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 297 seconds A track from the 2006 CD 'Mesh', available from cdbaby.com/all/timne lson as well as from all the usual download vendors. Pitch-shifted flute, live looping. Recorded at Isle de Bacchus, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Related: ambient, avant-garde, experimental, flute, looping, mesh, nelson, psychedelic, tim, vermeil |
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tim nelson: amalgam Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 189 seconds From the CD 'Mesh' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson), 'Amalgam' is an acoustic fingerstyle piece, here illustrated by an exploration of multiple layers of highly mangled versions of the album cover art. Played on a Larrivee acoustic parlor guitar. Related: acoustic, amalgam, ambient, fingerstyle, mesh, nelson, psychedelic, tim |
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tim nelson: orphans among strangers Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 346 seconds A track from the CD 'Rantai' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) accompanying public domain home movies of Simpsons creator Matt Groening and his sisters Lisa and Maggie as they visit the zoo. Related: cello, drums, giraffe, monkey, nelson, orphans, rantai, tim, zoo |
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tim nelson: just so long as i'm the dictator Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 271 seconds A track from the CD 'animalvegetablemine ral' (available from cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) featuring a special guest vocal cameo from "The Decider". Related: animalvegetablemineral, bush, cello, dictator, mellotron, nelson, tim |
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tim nelson: telling myself Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 300 seconds B-side of the 1998 'Ladybug' single. Recorded at Shabby Toad, Rochester, NH Related: myself, nelson, nimbletunes, telling, tim |
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tim nelson: it's hard to ride a bicycle in the desert Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 396 seconds A track from the 2006 CD 'rantai', available from cdbaby.com/all/timne lson and from the usual download vendors. All sounds on this recording were made by a small purple bicycle with fringes on the handlebars. Related: belly, bicycle, chain, collective, dance, desert, looping, nelson, rantai, sampling, surrealism, tape, tim |
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tim nelson: gilt Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 186 seconds A track from the CD 'Mesh', available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson as well as from the usual download vendors. Played on organ. Related: ambient, film, gilt, looping, mesh, nelson, organ, psychedelic, tim |
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tim nelson: another view through steam Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 254 seconds The final track from the CD 'rantai' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) illustrated by a trip along the kitchen counter, passing fruit and a teakettle on the way to the glassware. Unlike many of his videos, tim nelson actually appears in this one, sort of. First recorded circa 1981 as part of a film score, remixed in 1999 for a V/A compilation, this is a remix of the remix, done in 2005. Related: abstract, ambient, another, collage, found, nelson, psychedelic, rantai, remix, sounds, steam, through, tim, view |
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tim nelson: bripton berrington Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 298 seconds a track from tim nelson's CD 'Rantai' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) provides a soundtrack to public-domain footage of the 1906 SanFrancisco earthquake. Related: ambient, bripton, cello, nelson, psychedelic, rantai, tim |
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tim nelson: stars are funny Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 177 seconds A mellotron track from the CD 'animalvegetablemine ral' (available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson) accompanying some public-domain footage of a kid lighting a bottle rocket. Related: ambient, animalvegetablemineral, flute, loop, mellotron, nelson, rocket, space, tim |
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tim nelson: gauss Posted by: speleman62
Video duration: 297 seconds A selection from the 2006 CD 'mesh' available at cdbaby.com/all/timne lson and from the usual download vendors, 'gauss' is a live looping track played with an eBow on a modified Washburn Monterey acoustic/electric guitar (NOT the blue resonator pictured in the video). Footage shot mid-2006 at Wolf Designs studio, Portland, Maine; music recorded late 2005 at Isle de Bacchus, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Related: ambient, avant-garde, ebow, experimental, gauss, guitar, looping, mesh, nelson, psychedelic, tim |




















