Remembrance Day, on Nov. 11, is more than just a statutory holiday for many people, including me. On this day, I remember my brother, Evert, who died in 1994, and my first boyfriend, Ignatius (Natie) Greeff, both of whom were in the Army during the South Africa Border War and the People's War or War … Continue reading A Song for Remembrance Day 2025
I take trouble over my music videos. For each song, I produce five different kinds - since each platform on which it will appear has different format specs: 1) full-length visualizer video - purely abstract patterns; 2) full-length lyric video; 3) Spotify Canvas; 4) Instagram Reel; 5) full-length music video, depicting the narrative in the … Continue reading Eye-candy, blood, sweat and tears
I've found out that artists can have more than one artist's name and avatar. In today's digital creative environment where many artists do not perform live, or appear as themselves in their music videos, they are identified by a name and an image. I thought I knew "who" the people that I associate with are. … Continue reading How to create a perfect meta-human
This year, in stead of sending Christmas cards and all that, I wrote a Christmas song that expresses all my thoughts and wishes this season. I wrote it specifically with our friends and family in mind, but I reckon there are many couples like us who live in one country but have roots in another … Continue reading A Christmas song instead of Christmas cards
In the Artgrid clips that I got, Michael Vestergaard Jensen, a.k.a. "Michael Jacket", dances in a suit, wearing a hat pulled low and rakishly, so all you can see of his face is a snaggle-toothed grin. His handle on Instagram is "Michael Jacket" because his speciality is dancing in the styles made famous by Michael … Continue reading Feet so fast you think the clip’s been speeded up
"King Unas Lives" is the second track on my album, "Divan", which has songs created from ancient historical documents - in this case, hieroglyphics. King Unas is also known as Ounas, Wenis, and Wenas. He was the ninth and last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, and reigned for 15 … Continue reading King Unas lives – Only in inscriptions
Donnie Jr. Duncan is one of those dancers whose performance you can analyze by microseconds and still not find one thing wrong. He is smooth, incredibly so. He has muscles in places where most people don't even have places. He leaps and twirls and slides as if gravity does not affect him. And then there … Continue reading He’s not a machine, he’s merely perfect
https://vimeo.com/809535987 Skiing, the dutch, beer, bars, and hits Hypnotic, the 7th track on my album, Time Shift, is a song about skiing. When I lived in South Africa, we went skiing in Austria once a year, since that’s what the Dutch do during their Winter holidays. There’s very little snowfall in South Africa - there … Continue reading Was that me being a dork in a bar? Yes. But I was freezing…
I've just published the first track on my new album, "Time Shift". The album is the result of a little walk down memory lane in 2022, particularly just before Christmas, remembering the standout things in my former life in South Africa: the local music scene, the wildlife, the wide-open spaces, the sounds that you only … Continue reading First track on “Time Shift” album: “Groove was in the House”
After a long debate with myself about where and how to place the lyrical videos I've made of my music, I finally settled on Vimeo. It's not free - but I did not feel comfortable with the sometimes questionable advertising, and being lumped together with all sorts of weird stuff on YouTube. Vimeo is a … Continue reading I chose Vimeo for my videos
À propos my post about music videos, I was sitting with my mouth hanging open when I saw the official video for German band Rammstein's latest release, Adieu, the last track on their album Zeit (Time). It was released on Nov. 24, 2022 and has had, to date, more than 9.8 million views. There's high … Continue reading This you’ve got to see: Music video of RAMMSTEIN’s “Adieu”
How I visualize my music Update: Feb. 08, 2026 - The specifics in this post are outdated by now. I meant to share the steps in the laborious process of creating contents for music releases. That has not changed. However, I have stopped agonizing about the term "lyric videos". Courses for horses. It is what … Continue reading Now for the videos
Cōdae · Hirajoshi and Sky All the songs in this collection contain small clips or samples of machine-generated musical notes. I used online platforms that produce both sounds and visuals from a user’s input, the main one being “Paint with Music” (which is why the album has this name) which uses Google Magenta’s DDSP (Differentiable … Continue reading Track 1 on “Painting Music”: “Hirajōshi and Sky”
