(music for this failed transcode is courtesy of audio swap on youtube. It’s The Institute of Contemporary Music performing Triangulum Galaxy.)

Over the last few days I’ve been trying, with the help of Jonny, to find a way to transcode the initial edit of Disembody. So far no luck. The feature file is almost ten gigabytes. So far we’re having trouble uploading it (our host rejects files that big, as did our library at the internet archive). VLC, Movie Player and Transcode all failed to successfully transcode it as a smaller file. It’s too big to put on DVD as is.

Etcetera

I would really like to have it available online. And Skye would really like it for his reel, as he is looking for video editing jobs.
The next thing we’ll try is putting it on an external drive and taking it to Amy’s Mac to see if the program that spat it out (Final Cut Pro) can recognize it, load it, and export it as a .mpg or .mov.

Elsewise, I’ve updated the 23E site again. And I’ve torn through every page of Vime, updating them all. Disembody and the next two MVM projects (tentatively titled Portal 7: A Mild Informality and Portal 8: Expansion) all have improved pages and info available. And the third SPP record is now represented and available online in a rough mix.

If you are in SF between September 26 and November 6 you should check out The Colony Room. It is curated by 23E friend Anne Colvin. And our own Marcella Faustini curated a jukebox for the space featuring original music and video from 23E members Alex Lukas and Skye Thorstenson. And, yours truly.
I put up a page and info about The MVM’s work (ten songs on three thumb drives, setting the Pentateuch to music) for the show.