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Thu, 23 Nov 2006
Funny Ideas
'Funny Ideas' 30.5MB 2:09 min
We're marching forward
Smiles on our faces
Wind blowing in our hair
Going ever onwards
We're going places
& we are getting there
Everything is sorted out
No need to worry
Chorus:
Too many
You have too many
You have too many ideas
Funny ideas
& we don't like that here!
Let's say that you are right
That means that we are wrong
And if we're wrong once
We could be wrong again
Now this will never do
People might begin to talk
They might lose confidence
In those who lead them
Chorus
We have a leader
Wise good and generous
Sitting in the driving seat
On the train of history
He's looking out for us
& for our country
& if he seems hard
It's for our own good
Chorus
Written for The Wisdom That is False, Harlow TheatreVan, 1986.
Wed, 22 Nov 2006
Two
'Cherry Tree in November Rain' 26.3MB 36 secs
'Thirteen Minutes in the Garden' 26.9MB 1:00 min
Wed, 15 Nov 2006
Stort
'Stort' 77.5MB 2:38 min
Last Saturday I left my mobile on the London-Cambridge train.
Sunday night a nice man from the Bishop's Stortford ticket office
rang to say someone equally nice had handed it in.
So, Monday, I took the train from Harlow to Stortford, picked up my
phone, did a bit of shopping & decided to walk at least some of the
way back along the river.
It is rather a big file, but do take a look...
Mon, 13 Nov 2006
An Enemy of the People
'An Enemy of the People' 20.7MB 6:48 min
I made this before anything else here, as a Shockwave piece, in
2002. It features the voice of my late father Łukasz Szpakowski,
& is, amongst other things, an account of his arrest by Stalin's
secret police, the NKVD & his subsequent deportation to a forced
labour camp in Siberia.
It is dedicated to him, with love & gratitude.
Sun, 12 Nov 2006
November Cat
'November Cat' 5.8MB 5 sec loop silent
In the Spring of 2003 I started making tiny QuickTime movies, as a kind of moving image dream diary.
This quickly became a major focus of my work & I have made at least two or three every month since.
In 2006 I arranged them in their current, semi-chronological, format (everything from April 2003 - Dec 2005
appears in the first four months of 2006).
All the movies, new & old, still live in the
same folder & can be accessed from there too.
You may freely download & remix any of them, though I would appreciate a credit.
Where credits are due to others for material I have appropriated or remixed, or for
performances, I will include a note with the posts here.
All music, except where otherwise stated, is by me.
I hope you like the movies, though of course I will continue to make & post them whether you do or not (but my thanks for looking!).
If you're interested enough you can read more about them here,
here,
here
& here.
michael