MUSIC VIDEO

SELECTED WORKS

UNCERTAIN COUNTRY – GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS (2023)

Adam CK Vollick directed and filmed this official video for Great Lake Swimmers’ 2023 track “Uncertain Country.” Using swirling imagery and intimate performance footage, he reflects the song’s introspective mood with his signature raw, one‑take style.

In support of his Heavy Sun Orchestra lead track release, we made this psychedelic dance film. During the 2nd Lockdown here in Canada Daniel approached me about making a film for his latest upcoming release. We reused the film of our friend Carolina dancing after Nuit Blanche in 2010 (the same film Sioux Lookout was based on) in a reimagining amongst the geometric samplings Lanois makes on a daily basis. I animated the geometry and then put everything through my sound activated processing algorithm and this beautiful #glitchart is the result.

VENETIAN SNARES AND DANIEL LANOIS – NIGHT GHP133

This piece is an early example of Adam CK Vollick’s experimentation with sound‑activated manipulation and AI‑driven time interpolation. He assembled a collection of abstract images that Daniel Lanois creates in his meditative routines and processed them through a rig of microphones and algorithms to interpret different frequencies and apply various effects. The results were recomposited and re‑synced to the original audio. Produced in 2018 in support of the radical record by Daniel Lanois and Venetian Snares, the video drew attention from Pitchfork.

Spontaneously one afternoon in Toronto, while we were preparing for departure on the Flesh and Machine tour, we rigged up the Cadillac to do a quick remix of Tinariwen. Cut it and delivered that afternoon.

DANIEL LANOIS – SIOUX LOOKOUT / FLESH AND MACHINE

This music video was shot, directed and edited by Adam CK Vollick for Daniel Lanois. It originated the night after Nuit Blanche in 2010, when Lanois invited dancer Carolina Cerisola and Vollick into his new Toronto workshop after a sleepless evening to capture an improvised performance. The footage lay dormant until 2014, when the evolving sonic textures of Lanois’ album Flesh and Machine inspired Vollick to revisit it. The indigenous cries in “Sioux Lookout” evoke nearly lost ways of living in harmony with nature; in the video, Cerisola metamorphoses into a supernatural creature, mirroring the music’s synesthetic, shape‑shifting soundscape.

Brian Blade, Daryl Johnson, Daniel Lanois and Trixie Whitley.  I shot a series of one take videos for this project that got me my gig with Neil. "Music video by Black Dub performing ""I Believe In You"" Live Off The Floor. (C) 2010 JIVE Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment"