k. a. bloom

Radar Man - a drawing comes to life

My nephew Ben did the character drawing for this piece, he was 7 1/2 years oldn in time. Radar Man is strong like a stone, round like a mushroom cap, and with powers so mighty he can fly.

Steven Brown

Click the picture for a great interview with Steven Brown

Hello again dear Steven Brown, you encouraged me in my work, and you are a brilliant sound artist and composer, but you left the planet all too soon. I remember you and will always listen.

much love,

Kat

composition for piano and drums - Kat Bloom 2018

Shiny New Jag

3rd stage of pawpaw jag

wip Kat Bloom

The Counsellor

Story and reading by Paul Squires. Arrangement and sound effects by Kathi Bloom.

Arrangement-Somebody to Love

Somebody To Love 

This piece began as what I took to be "a laid back elevator music version of Somebody to Love" the song written by Darby Slick, former bro-in-law of Grace Slick,  "first recorded by the 60's rock n roll band The Great Society" and Jefferson Airplane performed and recorded it later, and transformed it.  "Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jefferson Airplane's version No. 274 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."(wikipedia)

 

Yet, I didn't finish my arrangement by the deadline (Taxi A&R), and then made it not so laid back. I added some sort of grating elements imo, the vocals have always seemed to me to be glass-shatteringly intense and riveting and the lyrics both captivating and baffling. So I  beefed up to my hearts delight:) You gotta do what you gotta do...

Embeddable Objects

One of the pieces (out of 3) installed at the Video Party Show, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2009

video of four de-congruent squares

These four pieces are part of a series of nine video groups. To be projeced/displayed interactive/simultaneously (installation). Here, the movement of the squares were determined by a set of 100 drawings, random placements of drawings on consecutive animation pages

—footage via frame to frame and action scanning.
 
The sound was composed using a graphic score corresponding to the color and design of the image.
 
The formula allows basic elements of each separate piece to correspond so it is possible to play them separately or in concert or with any variation.
 
For future interactive installation, options to freeze action, print a frame, play individually, or simultaneously. Ideally another sound interwoven would be a random sampling of natural sound near the showplace (contact microphones/recording/audio feed)

color squares ＞ music

a grid of color squares. each color is pre-assigned a note value, octave and duration. the grid is laser-scanned several times using selective sets of compatible tunings. the output generates 6 voices each scan for which the sound is also set, but can be varied. these audio tracks are treated and mixed - le voila' - btw, the grid is 3D, what you see here is one flat view, 3D images showing depths and angles coming soon - 

to be continued w's.i.p. 

inside the box

Inside the Box could be characterized as "outside the box", a short video animation done frame by frame the old fashioned way using vector drawings, photoshop in movie mode, very basic. The idea was imaginary holographic boxes and artworks in a museum setting. The art, the animation, the sound and production by K.A. Bloom.

 

   

SCARLET RIBBONS

This is my attempt at a more polished version of Scarlet Ribbons.

 

The music of Scarlet Ribbons was written by Evelyn Danzig Levine (January 16, 1902 – July 26, 1996) and the words by her collaborator, Jack Segal (October 19, 1918 – February 10, 2005). Evelyn Danzig and I share the same birthdate, which I did not know when first inspired to do an electronic arrangement of Scarlet Ribbons.  

My A&R company sends daily listings of new calls-and often-times, there are calls for an original arrangement of some classical or public domain music. This was a great exercise in composition, because I didn’t write it- I had to treat it like my baby, working out the “meaning” of the melody. The experience gave great insights for original compositions.