Eurydice - 09. Episode VII: Dryads and Apollo (2020) - Austin Yip

In 2017 I wrote a work "Eurydice", which is an hour long electroacoustic work for the collective film project "Le Ballet de la Nuit" with the Centre de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne (France). I published all the musical works in an album, namely "Eurydice", in 2019, and re-filmed some of the works with new music videos.

One day in February 2020, I came across the "Project Apollo Archive", which has almost every photograph shot by astronauts on manned Apollo missions. This aroused my interest to combine the ninth track of my album, "Dryads and Apollo", with an image of the Earth during one of the Apollo missions.

The image was processed and programmed through Max/msp to synchronise with the music. February 2020 was also the time when all universities in Hong Kong are suspended due to the coronavirus, for unknown reason, the earth image, after being processed, resembles the shape of a lung. I didn't make it with intention.

Video and Music by Austin Yip
Album: Eurydice: Ballet de la Nuit
Track 9: Episode VII, Dryads and Apollo

Earth image from Apollo 8 Magazine 15/F, (Color) Trans-Earth Coast; NASA photographs; unprocessed 1800 dpi Hasselblad film scans by Johnson Space Center, circa 2005

See more about the project at https://austinyip.com/2019/10/01/eury...
Other music videos of the project can be found in my vimeo as well.