Recap of Stereo (Jason Lee, Chris Pastras, and Bryce Wettstein) at InnoSkate 2022, this past July in Sioux Falls, SD: Including the screening of A Visual Sound scored to a live jazz orchestra. Originally aired on PBS, 12/14/22
Host: Apolonia Davalos
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Join Stereo founders and film-makers, Jason Lee and Chris Pastras, in a screening and discussion of “A Visual Sound” with live orchestration provided by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. (Starts about 21 minutes into this video.) “A Visual Sound” (1994) is one of the first introductions of experimental art, film, and music in skateboard videos. The video is written, produced and directed by Stereo founders Jason Lee and Chris Pastras. Throughout the video, abstract and eclectic still frames are intermingled with color and black and white footage of skating. The soundtrack is a pure jazz lineup from Ululation and Tommy Guerrero. Going against the grain with the use of 8mm film, black and white still photography and avant-garde music, the...
"'93/'94 was probably my best period for skateboarding, where I felt the most confident and in control. such a fun, electric time. and so pivotal for me creatively - it was ultimately the co-directing of this stereo skateboards video - 'a visual sound' - that would open up the photography door for me. those early s.f. stereo days were huge for so many of us, and our team was amazing. and to have had guys like tobin yelland and gabe morford there to document it all was incredible. big thanks to chris pastras for your brain, and to deluxe sf and jeff klindt (RIP) for making it all possible. " - Jason Lee "The making of "A Visual Sound" in...
Saturday May 25th in Marseille, France, classical piano player - Fortunato d’Orio (from the Opera de Mulhouse) covers classic tunes from 20 classic skate parts - while the video part plays on a giant screen. Watch the preview video for Stereo's Carl Shipman's part from "A Visual Sound"...
