I was fleetingly reminded this morning of a video that I had an inkling that I’d posted some long expanse of time ago, and became consumed with tracking it down. In doing so, I found myself combing through virtually every single early post of mine from 2005 until 2008, which was somewhat sobering. Suffice to say, upon re-appraisal, I’d suggest that the first three years of Flaming Pablum are the very antithesis of crucial reading. You may beg to differ, but if so you are being strenuously charitable. I don’t think I really found my stride — much less my footing — until 2008 at the earliest.
ANYway, I found what I was looking for, that being “Ear to the Ground” by percussive performer David Van Tieghem. Obviously, the original film was meant to showcase the inventive rhythmatist’s music, but I was originally struck more by the film’s capturing of the endearingly desolate and somewhat ramshackle environs of the SoHo, TriBeCa and Chinatown of the early 80’s. I also really dug that Killing Joke made a cameo (in the form of a poster on a Broadway wall at around 00:49 into the clip). Here it is again….
As it turns out, Van Tieghem made a sequel to “Ear to the Ground” in 1987 and titled it “Ear-Responsible.” Once again, the streets of New York City act as his drum kit. Here `tis….
If you go David Van Tieghem’s own site, meanwhile, you can see a wider array of his work on video, including this Japanese ad for Sony cassettes. Take a look at that…
Here’s where I get incredibly minutia-laden. In watching the above clip, my heart skipped a beat when I spotted the GODDAMN STENCIL I wasted lots of bandwidth moaning about back in 2013 (see below, just to the lower left of Van Tieghem). I finally found a reproduction of it here.
Clearly, I need to get out more.
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