Resident home (day 289)

The last day of the residency was June 9th. We toured the NFB StereoLab in the morning. They have a great setup with many passive polarized projection systems matched with SANDDE 3D drawing stations. That week they also happened to be testing out the Panasonic twin lens 3D camera. The Director of Photography didn't give it great marks mostly because of bad compression artifacts and poor performance in low light. When I saw the footage I didn't think it was that bad. They were just starting to work with it and it was a pre-production model so it is quite possible their opinion will change. But for $22,000 the expectations are high.
In the afternoon, Valerie Walker of Studio XX interviewed Leila and I for her radio show. She is a skilled interviewer and it was great to talk with her about the project. The interview will air shortly. I'll post a link as soon as it does.
The rest of the afternoon and early evening, we packed up the studio and transferred files.  We ended the day at Mochica, a Peruvian restaurant on St-Denis.  Great food as always.  I will miss the easy access to delicious food, the warm nights, and the street level terraces.  Such great sounds.

I finally got around to posting a partial documentation of the work done at Oboro. It doesn't include most of the sounds that we recorded, and that were used during the artist talk in a live mix. What it does show is a trio of lungs breathing at different rhythms, with distinct videos and breath sounds. The three breath sounds match the breathing rate. Anyway, here it is. I'll post more as it becomes available.


lung trio from Maria Lantin on Vimeo.

Bacterial Update:  It has been a while since I posted a bacterial update.  I was slightly worried about going away for almost three weeks but everything worked out fine.  I put the Kefir grains in a dormant state in the fridge with twice the amount of milk I would normally give them.  When I took them back out they recovered right away and I would say are going through a growth spurt.
For the Kombucha I started a new brew about 6 days before I left and just assumed that the brew would be ruined when I got back but that the scoby would be fine.  Turns out the brew was fine, quite fine.  It was a batch I brewed with Pu-Erh tea and red rose buds.  You can really taste the roses (yum!). I just started a new brew today, Pu-Erh tea and Chrysanthemum flowers.

A song for this post.