In 2010 I was asked by VPRO Broadcasting Company to film special acoustic sessions with bands and musicians in the oldest stone building in the country, a chapel, for their music website 3VOOR12. We called these recordings the “Chapelsessions”. There is now also a website where new sessions are being added. I am no longer associated with the project.
So in the span of 5 days I shot 15 acoustic sessions with these artists:
- Hadewych (shot on Panasonic DVX100BE with SGBlade 35mm Adapter using a Nikon 35mm F2.0 lens)
- The Crookes
- The Morning Benders
- Sarah Blasko
- The Jacobites
- Shearwater
- Automatic Sam
- Okieson
- Lilian Hak
- Fucked up
- Phantom Puercos
- Toro Y Moi
- The Antlers (video no longer available)
- Gabby Young and other animals
- Dez Mona
- Monotonix (bonus, not a Chapelsession)
Tech
I shot the sessions on two camera’s, a Sony HVR-Z1E and a Sony HVR-Z5E, both in SD 25p mode. The sound was recorded into the HVR-Z1E from two Neumann KM-143 microphones. Lighting was primitive, but effective.