1. 24 May


    still from a Guided Meditation video I made for Transgressor Magazine, check it out: http://www.transgressormagazine.com/2#guided-meditation

    still from a Guided Meditation video I made for Transgressor Magazine, check it out: http://www.transgressormagazine.com/2#guided-meditation

     

  2. 24 May


    I have just returned from Thailand and Myanmar, where I was working on the new project Sea Gypsies! Learn more about it and help support it via our kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1415418733/sea-gypsies 

    I have just returned from Thailand and Myanmar, where I was working on the new project Sea Gypsies! Learn more about it and help support it via our kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1415418733/sea-gypsies 

     

  3. 29 Dec


    This is a sampling of all of my various video work to date. It ranges in style from Ethnographic to Animation. The Music is by Bitchin’ Bajas and from the album Vibraquatic, in which we collaborated on. 

     

  4. 3 Oct



    film tour

    England, UK

    Friday, October 5th

    @The Cube

    Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD

    7:30-8:30 pm

    screening: The Pierced Heart & The Machete 


    Jacksonville, FL

    October 8th, 2012

    @Underbelly

    113 East Bay Street

    7-9 pm

    $5

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    Little Rock, Arkansas- 

    October 12, 2012

    @Vino’s

    923 West 7th Street

    8pm

    $3 

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete


    Louisville, KY

    october 22,2012

    @ Dreamland Film Center @ the film society

    810 East Market

    $5 for one film, $8 for both

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    Nashville, TN- 

    October 23, 2012

    @Third Man

    623 7th Avenue South

    $10 for both, $5 for one

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    New Orleans, LA

    October 29, 2012 

    @The big Top

    1638 Clio Street 

    $5

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    New York, Ny

    November 4th

    WFMU RECORD FAIR

    125 West 18th Street

    2 PM

    free

    screening: The Pierced Heart & The Machete

    Boston, MA

    Nov 5th 

    @Studio Soto 

    10 Channel Center St

    8pm  

    $8

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    Biddeford, Maine

    Nov. 6th

    The Oak and the Axe

    timeTBA

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

    East Hampton, MA

    Nov 8th

    43 Maine St.

    screening: Staring into the Sun 

                        The Pierced Heart  & The Machete

     

  5. 12 Sep



    Staring into the Sun Pitchfork review

    The hour-long DVD is the best way most of us will have to witness the music of the people Wyatt visited. With visuals as hypnotic as the performances, she deftly illustrates how music seeps into many different parts of life. The opening scene is one of the most spectacular, showing members of the Borana tribe in southern Ethiopia chanting a cyclical polyphonic song as they pass up buckets of water from a multi-level well; Wyatt’s shots skillfully match the repetitive nature of this backbreaking work. Scenes of spiritual possession and ceremonial whipping further demonstrate music’s role in ritual practices. The sheer breadth of styles in the film also extends to more commercial fare— often featuring keyboards and synthesized drums— shot directly from TV sets. One clip even features a band decked out in military garb and posing with guns. That stands in stark contrast to the the scenes of the Tsemay tribe, where kids and adults bounce around in a circle to an uplifting song. The big highlight here is the discordant synchronized panpipe playing of the Dirashe tribe in the Great Rift Valley; the music feels like it could career out of control at any moment, but it never does.

    read more : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15636-staring-into-the-sun/

     

  6. 12 Sep


    Postcard I designed and photographed for Goldies! 

     

  7. 5 Sep


    A contemporary survey of the tribal music of Ethiopia. Recorded in 2009 by Olivia Wyatt, this double LP showcases an array of mind-blowing sounds from the “land of eternal sunshine.” Presented in this visually stunning gatefold are audio examples ranging from remote tribes — of the Ethiopian highlands, the lower Omo and the Great Rift Valley — to their electric analogues in the sweaty beerhalls of Addis Ababa. This collection features songs from the Azmari, poet-musicians who play the krar (ancient lyre) and whose song repertoire includes everything from comic improvisation to lyrical elegiac, the Borana whose work songs are a transcendental polyphonic singing that stops time, and the Dirashe whose syncopated panpipes are as otherworldly as anything ever heard. Other selections include music from the Mursi, Druze, Gedeo, Konso, and Tsemay tribes as well as some fine examples of amplified roots music from the capital from the Habesha 2000 Band. This is a limited edition one-time pressing double LP housed in a gatefold full color tip-on sleeve with gorgeous Polaroid shots from Olivia Wyatt.

    A contemporary survey of the tribal music of Ethiopia. Recorded in 2009 by Olivia Wyatt, this double LP showcases an array of mind-blowing sounds from the “land of eternal sunshine.” Presented in this visually stunning gatefold are audio examples ranging from remote tribes — of the Ethiopian highlands, the lower Omo and the Great Rift Valley — to their electric analogues in the sweaty beerhalls of Addis Ababa. This collection features songs from the Azmari, poet-musicians who play the krar (ancient lyre) and whose song repertoire includes everything from comic improvisation to lyrical elegiac, the Borana whose work songs are a transcendental polyphonic singing that stops time, and the Dirashe whose syncopated panpipes are as otherworldly as anything ever heard. Other selections include music from the Mursi, Druze, Gedeo, Konso, and Tsemay tribes as well as some fine examples of amplified roots music from the capital from the Habesha 2000 Band. This is a limited edition one-time pressing double LP housed in a gatefold full color tip-on sleeve with gorgeous Polaroid shots from Olivia Wyatt.

     

  8. 5 Sep


    Vibraquatic is the new multimedia collaboration of Cooper Crain’s Bitchin Bajas (CAVE) and globetrotting film-maker Olivia Wyatt (Sublime Frequencies).  In Vibraquatic, three psychedelic movements are paired with lush prismatic distortions and intense ritual behaviors. Fans of Terry Riley and Bryon Gysin will not be disappointed.  Get into the zone.  This DVD/LP release follows up the critically acclaimed collaboration Water Wrackets also on Kallistei Editions.”- Kallistei 

    Vibraquatic is the new multimedia collaboration of Cooper Crain’s Bitchin Bajas (CAVE) and globetrotting film-maker Olivia Wyatt (Sublime Frequencies).  In Vibraquatic, three psychedelic movements are paired with lush prismatic distortions and intense ritual behaviors. Fans of Terry Riley and Bryon Gysin will not be disappointed.  Get into the zone.  This DVD/LP release follows up the critically acclaimed collaboration Water Wrackets also on Kallistei Editions.”- Kallistei 

     

  9. 5 Sep


    This is an excerpt from Vibraquatic, a new multimedia collaboration of Cooper Crain’s Bitchin Bajas (CAVE) and globetrotting film-maker Olivia Wyatt (Sublime Frequencies). In Vibraquatic, three psychedelic movements are paired with lush prismatic distortions and intense ritual behaviors. Fans of Terry Riley and Bryon Gysin will not be disappointed. Get into the zone.

    http://bitchinbajas.tumblr.com

     

  10. 5 Sep


    A Karaoke video I made to Deep Forest’s “Sweet Lullaby” for Cleopatra’s Gallery in Brooklyn. I