Hemming and Hawing

One of my main goals during this holiday getaway to Montana has been to create several photos for 35MM, the new project I'm working on with composer Ryan Scott Oliver.  As I've noted here on the blog, this piece is a collaboration where photos of mine inspire songs and, inversely, songs inspire photos.  What has proved valuable for me is how much this collaboration has required me to step out of my comfort zone and work in a way which is creatively free while treating each song as a mini-assignment.

Over the past month Ryan and I have been toying with the idea of what role the photography will play during a full production of the show (so far only a few songs have been performed in a concert setting), as we want to avoid simply projecting an image while singers perform in front of it. The relationship between music and photography doesn't have any set of rules in a theater setting, which means that we, along with a director, will be responsible for creating the rules ourselves.  So far the only concrete decision I've set in place for myself is that the photos I capture will not be visualizations of images Ryan has created through his lyrics.  Instead, I have been trying to capture the mood created by the orchestrations and translating the sound into an image which has a life of its own, while serving as a clear complement. 

For this particular song, "Hemming and Hawing," I wanted to create a type of melancholy relationship apocalypse (you know...one of those) where one partner's stability is wavering, and the innocence and purity of the relationship is something only the other partner can embrace. 

Figuring out a location required a bit of brainstorming, and we tested out a variety of stagings for the couple (Michael Lowney and Gillian Todd) before settling on this one.  More than anything, the photo proved to be an exciting technical challenge due to the fact that there was literally no existing light source for me to use when we shot this at a school playground at eleven at night.  I did one of the longest exposures I've ever used when shooting live subjects--five seconds--which allowed for the sky to turn yellow.  That length, coupled with a single strobe light and a silver reflector, resulted in the following image:

Here you can watch a video of Alex Brightman and Natalie Weiss performing the song, which will be included in the upcoming production of Rated RSO, happening at Joe's Pub on January 25th at 7:30 and 9:30.  Buy your tickets now, as it's sure to sell out soon!

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