By seth faergolzia
OFFICIAL VIDEO for “Garbage Night” (certain to bring a smile to your face)
Wow, this has been a long time coming! We’ve finally finished the music video for Garbage Night!! It’s one I started work on almost a year ago with my friend, videographer Alex Freeman. He’s won countless awards here in Rochester for his fine work. Alex was a pleasure to work with, and he and I plan on bringing more and more videos to you in this manner. It’s really satisfying to finally give this to you! We’re keeping it private for Patrons only right now and will most likely be releasing it out into the world in about a month so please do not share it, but do invite friends to subscribe. I’ve made it my goal to get up to 100 subscribers by the end of May!
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Here’s a link to the song if you’d like to DOWNLOAD AUDIO
… and here’s a link to the PERCUSSION ONLY VERSION
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The percussion is also really cool because all the instruments were found metal pieces from garbage picking. After finding all these cool pieces of metal that made nice sounds, my daughter and I sampled them and put them into a sequencer so that I could make electronic music out of it!
My daughter and her best friend are in this video quite a bit. From the time my little girl could talk, she was always fascinated with finding “treasure” on the street, be it a bead or an old broken toy or a sparkle, she was always picking things up, just like her father before her, just like his mother before him. Three generations of people who love to dig around in other peoples’ refuse to find things which are still of use.
It’s my opinion that we are creating too much waste in this world. We have so much stuff, just piling up in our homes. Everyone has a pile of plastic bags. We’ve got useless things, or single use things stacking on top of each other on our shelves, shoved in cellars, piled in attics. People pay money for things they could easily find, or they buy it new though they could easily find the same thing used at a thrift store. I’ve always loved creating art using junk I found on the street. Building cool looking things at no cost but the labor.
When I was a kid (as the story goes in the song) I really did collect a bunch of electronics and put them all into a foot locker, connected them all and plugged them in. It is a fond memory. I loved that machine I built. I feel like that was the start of my creative drive, a turning point in my life.
Anyway, I hope you will love this video so much you’ll click “like”, make comments, and spread the word about this Patreon page. I need more subscribers to really make it work, and the only way I seem to be able to get them is if the word of mouth grows.
Thanks piles for your support. It means a ton to me that you would put your hard earned money in as support to my art. I’ll take it as far as I can!!
Rise Up Festival
I’m happy to say I got to book another all day festival to promote progressive politics and social justice!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155495979623352&set=gm.263138764145282&type=3&theater
Loop Painting #3 – live performance
Thank you all for subscribing! You’re so amazing, helping me accomplish dreams. I really like the way this one turned out. It was my first time ever doing a live loop painting… oh, besides one time at a house show in Frankfurt, Germany, but somehow this one was more formal. I made a plan to make the painting and loop simultaneously in front of humans! It was wild and nerve wracking, but I made it through. All the music was completely improvised and the painting was not pre-planned. It took about an hour. The video you’re getting is all that boiled down to under 4 minutes ( i think), and down below this paragraph you can get a longer version of just audio. Both are really cool. I hope you dig.
https://youtu.be/q5GjQNiSiFU
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20 MINUTE LOOP AUDIO: (just click and download)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5hts1e0rbju13z/Loop%20Painting%203%20audio%20extended%20copy.wav?dl=0
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This month I plan on definitely and for sure releasing the GARBAGE NIGHT video! It’s been many months in the works, and I think you’ll all love it! Besides that we’re having a big event at Anthology here in Rochester, an all day festival sort of thing raising money and awareness for causes I believe in! Yay!
hugs,
Seth
A Drawing and a Song
I realized I could make a sort of stop motion video if I set my camera to rapid fire with enough time for my hand to get on and off the screen before the next shot. I drew this picture in 1020 strokes! Each stroke was between 4 second shots on the camera. I then put it all into the program I use for video editing, shrunk it down to one minute, repeated it twice with effect tweaks and put my song “Stars On the Pavement” on it. It took quite a bit more work than expected, but every time I do something new, I learn something new!! That’s the spirit of innovation!! I hope you’ll all enjoy!
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23 Whensdays at Flour City Station
Seth Faergolzia & the 23 Psaegz are proud to host a weekly residency “23 WHENSDAYS” for four weeks on Wednesdays in March! We will be having weekly givaways and new material premieres each week plus one other band and one solo artist along for the ride!!! Check out all the awesomeness below….
March 1 with Personal Blend and The Crooked North Trio
March 8 with Ocular Panther and Jackson Cavalier
March 15 with Folkfaces and Roger Kuhn
March 22 with Whitewoods and MdotCoop
… with projections by Colonel Parmisan / Brian Blatt
If you make it for all 4 weeks you’ll get a free goodie bag including poster, 2 CDs, stickers, buttons and a couple other random things!
High Diver Video Collaboration
NEW VIDEO – House Show
Been a lot of work to put this pretty thing together. It gives me a smile almost all the way through just to see the joy in peoples’ faces and the fun stuff that got captured in these few short sessions of filming live performances at Meddlesome Lab. I’ve been helping to run shows at that place for nearly 10 years now, so this song certainly has a special place in my heart. I hope you will watch the video and glean just a bit of the cultural enrichment I’ve been blessed to recieve through such a space. Thanks to all my subscribers for making this sort of thing possible. I think the videos are only going to improve as I learn how to use my camera properly and get better at editing and animation!
Tiny Desk Entry
Hi All! We decided to make a go at the Tiny Desk Contest this year… here’s the quick video we threw together for Rubberband, a fan favorite…