Café Concrète by Steve Bird

I have always loved cafés. Sit me in a quiet room and I will probably fall asleep, but in a café, surrounded by strangers going about their lives, meeting with their friends, maybe their lovers, I can drift away into a world of ideas and possibilities. I have had most of my best ideas in cafes.

Most of this video was shot with a mobile phone, in a number of different cafés, over a period of a few months. The sound is a mixture of the lo-fi video soundtracks and live manipulations that I have made using max/msp on my laptop computer, while sitting with a cappuccino and a cake.

Join me in my world for a few minutes as the crowd blurs into the distance and thoughts are free to develop as they please. Oh and don’t forget to leave a tip.

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