WABI - SABI: A project by verb/re/verb
Wabi - Sabi is the Japanese concept surrounding transience. It describes the beauty of imperfection, asymmetry, impermanence. Wabi - Sabi is the beauty of decay. This project, is about the same. It is meant to depict the elegance in decay, the artistry in revitalization, and the reinvention of deterioration. For this project, I asked 5 electronic based artists to cover older non-electronic songs. The songs were then sent to the prolific videographers, Wooden Lens, who took 30 seconds of each track and paired each track with archival footage from the same year of the original composition of the song. In the video, the songs go chronologically from the oldest original release date to the most recent. A brief encompass of history in video, in technology, and in the exquisiteness in transience. While the video only includes 30 seconds from each song, the tracks in there entirety are available for download here.
Tracklist:
1) Pressed And - Can the Circle be Unbroken (The Carter Family)
2) WHITE HORSE - S.H.O.U.T. (Boswell Sisters)
3) Galapagos - Earth Angel (The Temptations)
4) Ghilbi - Little Bitty Pretty One (Thurston Harris)
5) Option Command - You and I (Stevie Wonder)
A special thanks to Holly of East to West for getting the whole thing rolling, and to Tom of Ghibli for introducing me to the idea of Wabi - Sabi. And most importantly, thankyou to all the artists participated, Wooden Lens, and everyone who spent the time to read this Bar-Mitzvah-like thankyou speech.
OUTSTANDING
