Jennifer Brookes: Last semester I spent a lot of time doing automatic drawings, which is sitting down anywhere with a pen and something to write on and drawing whatever was in my head. This video feels a lot like an automatic drawing in photographs. Knowing that I had to shoot a video but without a planned idea, I mindlessly walked to the pier and took pictures of everything that caught my eye. Instead of thinking about what I was doing, I was counting the seconds it took for anything to float or fly or sail or soar in and out of my camera’s line of sight while I held it stationary. Coincidentally, it looks like two or three of my previous videos, because that’s how my automatic mind works.

Eric Peterson: Playing in Houses has been an interesting experience for me for a number of reasons. Part of it is that piano is not my primary instrument by any stretch of the imagination, but also, the band’s style (once summed up as “indie rock and whatever was in your parents record collection”) isn’t what I’m familiar with. It may not be completely apparent, and although I haven’t seen it surface much in my compositions, I have noticed that my performance has been affected by it. This week, I tried to bring in a little bit of Houses influence, but it ended up taking a bizarre turn into funk territory.