PIEPSCHUIM
music video (2021)
Direction, edit and concept for the music video for “Piepschuim” by Aafke Romeijn.
LISTENING IS SPEAKING TOO
moving image (2021)
The speaker and the listener only exist thanks to one another.
To listen is to validate.
We live when we are heard.
‘Listening Is Speaking too’ explores the dynamic of the listener and the speaker, and the possibility of inhibiting both roles at the same time.
FOR A NUMBINGLY EFFICIENT WORLD
audiovisual series (2021)
“For a numbingly efficient world” is an audiovisual series that is the product of a research on how music and image can offer an escape from a productivity-based society.
With the aim to retrieve a connection with sensations and feelings, together with musicians Elijah Waters and Beau Zwart, LO experimented with grounding methods such as Deep Listening meditation and personal interviews. From these experiments they extracted five concepts per project that formed the foundation for the composing of songs. Synesthetic experiences that appeared during this process became the fuel for the visuals that the music is accompanied by.
With listening, trust and team work as the core elements of this research, “for a numbingly efficient world” aims to propose a dissent to a society that is driven by achievements. It offers a temporary, safe environment to experience and process emotions, a space that allows others to hear themselves.
Morph was made with Elijah Waters from the concepts: the mold, journey, surrender, confirmation and endlessness.
Break Even was made with Beau Zwart from the concepts: insecurity, the urge to prove, choices, balance and duality.