Music and Musicians
Driving through Virgin River Gorge, Arizona, October 2017
On a two day road trip from Southern California to Idaho, via Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, myself and Alex, my wife, crossed through the north west of Arizona.
The creek came as a great surpise: from a distance, the highway appears to vanish into the mountains.
I therefore only had my mobile phone (a Samsung Galaxy S5) to shoot with and had to hold it as steady as possible. The film is jerky in places because of this, even after some stabilisation.
Filmed & edited by Brin Coleman
Driving skills by Alex Brinkley Coleman
Music: The Lovely Moon - This Too Shall Pass
from the album Perpetual Motion, available from www.thelovelymoon.com
Categories: Documentary, Music
Blocker - Butterfly Cluster
Promo for 'Butterfly Cluster' by Blocker from the EP 'The Other' available from blocker.bandcamp.com
I filmed some timelapse footage while travelling on the roads of Idaho but the roads were bumpy and although I had a tight grip of the camera, the footage was very jerky.
When I watched it back, I realised it would fit this music, so I set about experimenting with it.
This promo is the result of those experiments.
Filmed in Juily 2017 in Idaho, USA.
Filmed and edited by Brin Coleman.
Categories: Experimental, Music
Feedback: The Guitar Pedal Maker
A look at Alex Lynham who runs SSD Devices, a small company based in Manchester that makes guitar pedals.
We find out how and why he does what he does.
More info: reverb.com/uk/shop/ssd-devices
Filmed & edited by Brin Coleman
Categories: Documentary, Music
Kevin Cummins, The Manchester College, 1st November 2016
Legendary music photographer visited The Manchester College to share his wisdom with arts and media students and to talk about his career.
More from Kevin Cummins at www.kevincummins.co.uk.
Recorded on 1st November 2016 at the Openshaw campus of The Manchester College.
Photographs reproduced by kind permission of Kevin Cummins.
Camera and Sound: Joel Foster, Michael Openshaw, Dave Speers
Editor: Brin Coleman
Categories: Documentary, Music
Manchester Sunset, 24th March 2017
There was a particularly lovely sunset in progress so I set up the camera to capture it at 25x speed.
Music: Bing Satellites - Up There In The Ether
from the album Castles In The Sky, available from bingsatellites.bandcamp.com
Categories: Experimental, Music
Manchester Sunrise, 25th March 2017
I took advantage of our unusually lovely weather and captured this morning's sunrise, shown here mostly at 50 x speed.
Lots of plane trails, birds and a crane visible through the trees.
Music: The Lovely Moon - Sunrise, available from bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/
Also includes ambient sounds (traffic, birds) recorded while the time lapse was being filmed
Categories: Experimental, Music
Bing Satellites - Return To The Castle In The Sky
Video for a track of the new Bing Satellites album 'Castles In The Sky'.
Layers of cloud time lapses to accompany layers of drifting atmospheric ambient music.
The album is available on CD and download from bingsatellites.com/castles
Filmed and edited by Brin Coleman
Categories: Music, Experimental
Ghost Harmonics - Monochrome Drone II
Promo for the new ambient drone album by Ghost Harmonics, available to download from 22 February 2017 from ghostharmonics.bandcamp.com
The music is one continuous longform ambient drone focusing on just one note.
As you listen to the one note, you start to hear harmonics and textures that would normally be hidden in the music.
Filmed in MCos in February 2017.
Filmed and edited by Brin Coleman
Categories: Music, Experimental
The Lovely Moon - Driving Through The Desert
A little taste of Journeys to Peace & Happiness by The Lovely Moon, available on CD and download from 17 September 2017.
More details: www.thelovelymoon.com
in Summer 2017 around Boise, Idaho and Fundão, Portugal.
Filmed and edited by Brin Coleman.
Categories: Music
Bing Satellites - Hidden Shallows
A track from the album Music from Mission Control or something, available on CD and download from bingsatellites.com
I filmed a few long slomo shots of waves crashing against Laguna Beach in California. I knew the waves there were spectacular - no good for swimming or surfing but great looking as they are large and powerful right by the beach.
I tried a few effects and layered different shots but in the end, a particular shot on its own suited the music better than anything else.
Filmed and edited by Brin Coleman.
Assisted by Alex Coleman.
Categories: Music, Experimental
Moon & Bacon meets Daniel Land
Daniel Land talks about the making of his solo album In Love With A Ghost, his first since the split of Manchester shoegazers Daniel Land & The Modern Painters.
Promo and concert clips courtesy of Daniel Land - danielland.co.uk - and James Land - jamesland.co.uk
Crew:
Producer / Director: Brin Coleman
Categories: Music, Documentary and Factual
Ghost Harmonics - Ray Of Light
Video for the next minimalist ambient album by Ghost Harmonics which will be available to download and stream from 22 March 2017 from ghostharmonics.com
The music focuses on one single note and its harmonics that, usually hidden, are allowed time to breath and be discovered.
With this video, I have tried to capture the feeling I have while playing this music: it is hypnotic and psychedelic. The slow, minimal nature of the music lets the mind wander.
I also wanted, perhaps for the first time in a performance video, to make it personal and actually feature me, an actual human being with emotions and everything, creating the music.
Music and video recorded, produced and edited by Brin Coleman at MCos, Manchester during February and March 2017.
Categories: Music, Experimental
When The Sun Hits: The History of Shoegaze
Music documentary written and presented by Brin Coleman (aka Bing Satellites) looking at the origins, history and legacy of shoegaze music and dream pop.
Produced in May 2015 for Radio Production Access to HE course at The Manchester College.
Featuring Daniel Land, Ulrich Schnauss, Paul Lopez and Anna-Lynne Williams and music by Slowdive, Sigur Rós, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, M83 and Ulrich Schnauss.
Categories: Music, Documentary and Factual, Audio
A Brief History of Ambient
Music documentary written and presented by Brin Coleman (aka Bing Satellites) chronicling the history of ambient music.
Produced in March 2015 for Radio Production Access to HE course at The Manchester College.
Featuring Daniel Land, Ulrich Schnauss and Anna-Lynne Williams and music by Ulrich Schnauss, Erik Satie, Harold Budd/Brian Eno, David Sylvian, The Orb, Phillip Wilkerson, Poodleplay Arkestra, Jack Hertz and Cousin Silas, Harold Budd & Clive Wright, Marconi Union, Trespassers William and Antonymes.
Categories: Music, Documentary and Factual, Audio
Ghost Harmonics - The View From Here
Promo for the upcoming ambient album The View From Here by Ghost Harmonics which will be available to download from 8 March 2017 from ghostharmonics.bandcamp.com
The video shows the actual recording of the album in MCos, my studio in Manchester.
Ghost Harmonics music is very minimalistic ambient drones focusing one one note and its harmonics. Sounds and textures of that note which are normally hidden are given a chance to be explored.
Crew:
Producer / Director: Brin Coleman
Categories: Music, Experimental
An Introduction to Ghost Harmonics
A look at the strangely familiar looking ambient musician Ghost Harmonics, who creates chilled out and minimalist longform drones.
He explains how the music is made, just what Urban Ambient music is and how the idea of playing just one note came about.
You can find music from Ghost Harmonics at ghostharmonics.bandcamp.com
Crew:
Producer / Director: Brin Coleman
Categories: Music, Documentary and Factual, Experimental