“[carry/catalyst]” (2020)
Text-art video, audio vocal loops (9:26 min.)
This video is an animated rendering of song-poem fragments from Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, a multimodal poetry project by Dao Strom. The video exhibited as part of a 2-channel video installation at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art for TBA:20 (September, 2020).
“Wading into a new decade (…) 45 years after the exodus” (2020)
Video, music, field sounds (6:49 min.)
Music, images, audio: Dao Strom
(with one image courtesy of Isabelle Thuy Pelaud)
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This music video is an audio-visual accompaniment to Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, a multimodal poetry project by Dao Strom. The video corresponds to a section in the book, Instrument, a sequence of photos + lyric essays titled “[Wading into a new decade (ten miles of jungle, twenty+ river crossings, one night in a cave, chimes at the altar of the Highway of Horror, then lunch by the sea) forty-five years after the exodus]”. The song appears on the album, Traveler’s Ode.
An excerpt from this image-text sequence was published in Poetry Northwest in Oct 2020.
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A version of the video with ambient-sound only exhibited as part of a 2-channel video installation at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art for TBA:20.
Traveler’s Ode (2019)
Sung-Poetry/Music Performance Video (9 min.)
Music/Words/Sound Design/Concept: Dao Strom
A live recording of “Traveler’s Ode” filmed at Satsop Power Plant, Cooling Tower 3, Elma, WA.
Published as a multimedia/video poem by Poetry Northwest, 1/21/19.
Showcased in Cadence Video Poetry Festival, NW Film Forum, 4/3/19.
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Video Credits :
Director: Roland Dahwen/Patuá Films
Director of Photography: Edward P. Davee
Sound Recordist: sidony o’neal
Mixing: Dao Strom; with additional tape processing by Jim Han
Mastering: Timothy Stollenwerk
With special thanks to Kyle Macdonald
I Have Traveled (2017)
Music Video/Video Projection (4:53 min.)
Song written, recorded, performed by Dao Strom
Video filmed & edited by Kyle Macdonald
Music video for song “I have traveled”, made initially as a video projection during Nes Artist Residency period, in collaboration with Kyle Macdonald. The video was projected onto a pyramid shape; the song was performed and recorded in the Biopol Studio.
This song is also on the Traveler’s Ode album.
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Process Documentation: Pyramid-Building + Video Projection
A documentation of an installation created in the private studio at Nes Artist Residency, October-November 2017. Video projection + music. The first song was recorded live in the church in Skagaströnd; the second song was recorded in the Biopol studio. Music by Dao Strom; set construction and videography by Kyle Macdonald. Documentation editing by Dao Strom.
**NOTE: The video projection that starts around 3:00 of this video is the same as the "I Have Traveled" video (above).
Flower Diatribe #1 (2017)
Video Poem/Performance (8:15 min.)
Poem, Voice: Dao Strom
Set Design & Construction: Kyle Macdonald
Sound Design: Barry Brusseau
Video Filming & Editing: Roland Dahwen/Patuá Films
A video + filmed performance of Dao Strom’s poem, “Flower Diatribe #1”, which appears as a text poem in the poetry-art book Instrument. The poem was initially performed live as part of a hybrid-poetry performance at Reed College Chapel Theatre for the 2016 Reed Visiting Writers Series (curated by Samiya Bashir). The video + poem were published online in Poetry Northwest, 10/30/2017.