Who: Jim O’Donoghue Martin, Video Blue
What: Ambient Music
My name is Jim O’Donoghue Martin, and I make music as Video Blue. I’m from Dundalk, but based in Hackney, east-London.
‘reviver’ was made in response to my own dealings with anxiety and panic attacks.
When overwhelmed, listening to and creating sound helps.
I wanted to create something that could be used in mindfulness-practice, meditation or as a discreet backdrop to something more physical.
Something you could sleep to, run to, or write to.
A piece designed for introspection in a world like ours.
There was a plant on our living room table, called a Calathea Ornata (thats the image on the artwork). I watched it in different states, moving upwards, fighting for light as a response to the onset of darkness; and then in a relaxed state as it bathed in sun in the morning. I learned this was called nyctinasty, and it seemed like a good metaphor for the swings in mental well-being a day can offer.
This recording takes that journey; an experience with darkness but ultimately uplifting catharsis. This was a reviving thing to make; hopefully it can benefit others.
One is never alone.
Includes audio within from:
Crowds, Marrakech, 2015.
McKeowns pub, Dundalk, 2017.
Contains excerpts of ‘SXF’ from Video Blue’s ‘Simmer’ EP (2015), unreleased recordings from Mile end, 2013, & Jim’s original music from ‘Artefact of Thought’ (film) by Daniel Keane (2011)
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Paddy Martin
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