Director Fernando Frias hired me to help create interstitial video art and “Pepper’s Ghost” reflection effects for Depeche Mode’s concert film, “Depeche Mode: M”. The film documents the Mexico City dates for the Memento Mori tour of 2023-24. The concert fell on the weekend of Dias de los Muertos and the film evokes many themes around death and dying.

I directed this video for Danger Mouse & Black Thought’s single “Up” (feat. Rag’n’Bone Man). The concept was to use archival footage on arrays of black and white production monitors to create a visual collage that ties in with themes of the song.

Recently, I've been learning how to record my synthesizer sessions with Abelton Live. Below is an mp3 of a new track that I started in May called "Television Waves". You can see the original post on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJJ70ODpLwA/
If you're interested in adding a vocal or remixing the track entirely, the Abelton Live file and associated samples are available to my Patreon supporters at https://www.patreon.com/c/ellingson.

Sony Pictures hired me to create an audio-visual project using clips from their 1980’s horror/comedy “Fright Night”. I used my Digitakt 2 drum computer, VCV Rack synthesizer emulator, and VDMX live-video software to create the work and I filmed it on a vintage Sony Trinitron color television.

My video installation, "3 Sears Televisions" is on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland as part of the “Is It Still Life?” group exhibition. You can find it for sale here on their website:
https://brassworksgallery.com/collections/is-it-still-life-curated-by-krk-ryden/products/joshua-ellingson-3-sears-televisions
All you need is a dark corner, a power outlet, and thousands of dollars.

The Korg Wavestate Module has a vast library of samples that can be addressed individually by MIDI across four different layers. Each layer can contain a single multisample or a sequence of samples and has its own controls for amplitude and filtering. It can add up to a lot of sound.

I helped create this ad for Audible’s new adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984”.It’s the result of a collaboration between Territory Studio, director James Medcraft, and Alphabetical Studio. Alphabetical found my work online and thought I would be a good fit as a Key Artist for the project.

The new issue of Electronic Sound Magazine has a brief interview with me by Isaak Lewis-Smith on their “Opening Shot” spread. It looks like a pretty great magazine and you should go find it!

https://electronicsound.co.uk/

I’m completely honored to be part of @synth_history’s “Recommends” series. I talk about some of my favorite gear from @moogsynthesizers @tidbitaudio @befacosynth and more. You can check out via their profile or the links in my bio. Thanks, @danz_cm and the crew at Synth History!

https://www.synthhistory.com/post/joshua-ellingson-recommends

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how my “Pepper’s Ghost” reflection-illusion projects are put together. Here are some links to videos that I’ve made over the years and some links to other online demos that might help.

These are fragments from some of the projects that I created in October and November 2022. If there is a theme, it might be “layering”. I’m also interested in continuing to explore project in different sizes and shapes.

“Elevator”, featuring a double-decker “Pepper’s Ghost” illusion, is on view at Roq La Rue Gallery as part of the “Tiny Ghosts” exhibition curated by Hi-Fructose Magazine. The show is up until November 26th, 2022. You can see the rest of the work here at the gallery’s website.

In August and September, I focussed more on making my musical sounds sound more…musical. I figured out some new thing with audio samples, generative drums, and other ways to keep things sonically interesting. I also started combining elements from my experiments with oscilloscope graphics and “regular video effects. Last week, I bought a transparent bubble chair from my favorite thrift store and I’ve started using it with my flat-panel TV to make huge Pepper’s Ghost reflection illusions. So, you can expect more large-scale effects in the months to come.