Ahead of the release of Bing & Ruth’s new album, No Home of the Mind, this Friday, the New York outfit have today shared a video for ‘The How of it Sped’.
‘THE HOW OF IT SPED’ directed by Sébastien Cros.
Directed by previous collaborator Sebastien Cros, the video was shot in the last week in the south west of France on the Cap-Ferret peninsula, where the Dune Du Pyla sits surrounded either side by pine forests and the Atlantic Ocean. As a part of the world where the record was written, Moore and Cros felt this was the perfect setting for the video. However Cros explains that travelling to the location for filming was a hazardous experience:
“When we went there, the coast was on red alert, a violent windstorm blew over the site for48 hours. Winds gusting above 90mph, so strongly that we could not even look straight up,sand blasting the lenses, a total chaos in a deserted place. We had to adapt to theseconditions, finding breaks of quiet weather to improvise with the spectacle of nature.”
Established in 2006, Bing & Ruth is an ever-evolving collective steered by composer DavidMoore. A pianist from Kansas and graduate of New York’s school of Jazz and ContemporaryMusic at the New School, Moore’s work follows in the great tradition of fellow alumni JohnCage and Steve Reich, albeit looking past the more studied repetition of the style’sforerunners toward a meditative form built on feeling.
You can read more about the project and how the record as written in FADER’s recent featurewith Moore, where he discussed in depth the 17 pianos around the world that were used to write the album: http://www.thefader.com/2017/02/10/bing-ruth-david-moore-piano-interview
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