Random sounds from inside my head
The online portfolio of Kurt Lorenz. Music, art, design, thought.
I have been exploring the motion graphics capabilities of the iOS video editing app LumaFusion. It is surprisingly capable of making abstract visuals for use as VJ clips, music videos, and even ZOOM backgrounds. Learn more about LumaFusion here.
Created with LumaFusion.
Did you know you can create motion graphics in LumaFusion?
Did you know you can create motion graphics in LumaFusion?
Did you know that you can make motion graphics in LumaFusion? Music created with Mazetools Mutant.
Did you know that you can make motion graphics in LumaFusion? Music created with Mazetools Mutant.
Haptic | Subcutaneous is the first official release for these two tracks. Composed and conceived by Kurt Lorenz in early 2011 with Ableton Live, the tracks were remastered on iPad with Grand Finale in early 2020. Available now: https://kurtlorenz.bandcamp.com, and all other major digital retailers.
Haptic | Subcutaneous is the first official release for these two tracks. Composed and conceived by Kurt Lorenz in early 2011 with Ableton Live, the tracks w...
Official music video for Haptic by Kurt Lorenz from the 2020 release Haptic | Subcutaneous, available now at all digital retailers. "Haptic | Subcutaneous" is the first official release for these two tracks. Composed and conceived by Kurt Lorenz in early 2011 with Ableton Live, the tracks were remastered on iPad with Grand Finale in early 2020. Purchase on Bandcamp: http://kurtlorenz.bandcamp.com/album/... Footage courtesy of Prelinger Archives: https://archive.org/details/0557_Prec...
Official music video for Haptic by Kurt Lorenz from the 2020 release Haptic | Subcutaneous, available now at all digital retailers. "Haptic | Subcutaneous" i...
My fellow Ember Music artist Daniel Davis and I recently played a live electronic soundtrack to the 1985 cult-classic anime film Angel's Egg (天使のたまご Tenshi no Tamago). The event was the first show in what we hope will become a series of shows at the amazing Scarecrow Video in Seattle entitled "Live Soundtracks to Strange Films."
I made this... Shot, edited, post production.
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I am happy to announce my latest release Isaz, a 4 track EP featuring experiments in sound, processed loops and field recordings. All of these tracks were conceptualized, recorded, programmed, and mixed between January and September 2009. Available now as a free download from Bandcamp.
01. This is just my voice
This is just a looping, processed sample of me saying "this is just my voice"
02. Cargo
Processed sample of a train running through Carkeek Park in Seattle, WAUSA. This track was recorded with an M-Audio MicroTrack II digital recorder using the standard t-microphone. I used Ableton Live 6 for processing through an Auto Filter, a Simple Delay and a Resonator.
03. Batavia
This is the soundtrack to a memory. Flying in my fathers small plane from Buffalo. NY to Batavia, IL. when I was 6 years old. A mix of excitement and utter dread. I feel like I captured those feelings in this track.
04. Eye
Original Experimental Music/Sound (by Kurt Lorenz) made completely on the iPhone using BeatMaker, NLogSynth, and iGendyn. (Slo-Mo Vocalizations are from the videos audio track.) Each app was recorded directly into an audio channel in Ableton Live and some basic mixing/compression applied. This track is the soundtrack to an experimental film I created entitled "Eye" you can see the video below or here: www.vimeo.com/5243888
eye from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
Last year I was asked by Imogen Heap to contribute my short film "Bees" to her Love The Earth Concert/Film performance at the Royal Albert Hall. Well the film is finally coming to the public and will debut on April 22, 2012 (Earth Day) at 7.30 pm BST in the form of a 90 Minute Live Event from Imogen's Garden.
For more information about this event and to RSVP for the live stream:
Ember Music has uploaded 12 promo videos to their YouTube channel for their Ember Music Volume 1 Compilation. Check out the video playlist here, and my contribution "Filament" below.
I have recently finished a very fun project at work. We created 6 parody videos starring the Seattle University mascot to promote our 600+ Alumni Donor Challenge. The campaign is a parody of the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" adverts. Here is an example:
...and here is the playlist of our videos:
All of the videos were shot and edited (post production) by me.
I have just completed a music video project for Summer Rain Recordings artist IG88. The video is made with found footage from the Prelinger Collection at archive.org. Edited in FCE4.
"Cardboard Houses" by IG88 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
"Cardboard Houses" by IG88
Release Date: May 31st 2010
Catalog Number: SRR-075
IG88′s self titled EP is his debut release on Summer Rain. Beautiful, haunting melodies, occasional vocals, and glitched, elaborate beats bind to culminate in a blissful collection of tracks that inspire and soothe.
Visit http://www.summerrainrecordings.net
Video compiled and edited by Kurt Lorenz
http://www.kurtlorenz.com
On May 14th I joined my good friend Daniel Davis on stage for the first-ever live show of his musical project Carl Sagan's Ghost. I created some amazing visuals to go with the performance... They're a little blown out in the performance video but if you hit play on both videos below you can see the performance and the visuals at the same time...
Carl Sagan's Ghost | Live at SPACE - 05-14-2010 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
Carl Sagan's Ghost Live Visuals | Live at SPACE - 05-14-2010-01h.31m.48s.25f from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
I am now 18 days into my latest project; 10 Seconds. The plan is to take 10 seconds of video everyday for 365 days. My hope is to learn more about the process of filming and color grading/post production. I am using a Canon T1i DSLR as my main video capture device and Adobe After Effects CS3 for most of my post processing. I'm posting daily to my vimeo account. Here are a few of my favorite clips so far...
10 Seconds 2010-03-07 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
10 Seconds 2010-03-12 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
10 Seconds 2010-03-13 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
Over the last 6 months or so I have really been struggling with putting my live set together. For me the problem is how to make an Ableton Live laptop set "live" enough to be entertaining. I'm trying to run visuals through VDMX while playing my Ableton set as well... What I really needed was a way to practice live, without an actual audience staring at me. So of course the internet is the answer. Enter USTREAM (http://www.ustream.tv/)
USTREAM gives me the ability to stream my live set and (with some 3rd party software) visuals. I can also record my broadcast and view/embed it.
Below is a recording of my first live streaming set on USTREAM, follow me there: http://www.ustream.tv/kurtlrnz
Original music by Kurt Lorenz.
Sunlit from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.
