Dancorcism - Chiki Tiki Boom!

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Need a bio about loved ones, making things, creation—fabricating a tropical slot machine playhouse music video focusing on themes of joy, adventure, and collaborative practice in lieu of making a human baby:

Grant Worth, an aging, up-and-coming music video director was approached by his dearest original pal, a new, former DIY-Electroclash-PopStar-Turned-Healer artist, Dancorcism by Debbie Attias, who wanted a music video that would stand out from the usual tropes in the industry. In lieu of the narrative-driven video, completed for and with money in a few short weeks, the artist wanted to create something centered around “LOL-ing in the sun.” It would take a year to build, in Grant’s free time. 

Pros:

  0. Flexibility: Unlike having a baby, creating a music video allows for flexibility in terms of time and resources.

  0. Cost-effective: Creating a music video is generally less expensive than having a baby, which can be a significant consideration for artists with limited financial resources.

Cons:

  0. Short-lived success: The success of a music video is often short-lived, and the video may not have the same long-term impact as producing a human child.

  0. No legacy: Unlike having a baby, creating a music video will most likely sit in a lonely, lost YouTube stream for eternity and does not provide a continuation of one's family line.

  0. Limited personal growth: While creating a music video can be a creative outlet, it may not provide the same level of personal growth and development as raising a child.

  0. Risk of failure: There is always a risk that a grown baby may not be successful, which can be discouraging for parents and restrict their potential for life from getting very fancy

They shot on location on a remote island in Panama after celebrating questionably-post-pandemic New Year's Eve. The bright colors and natural beauty would serve as the perfect backdrop for the video's playful tone. The final product was a music-ish video unlike anything else in the industry, featuring vibrant colors, energetic dance routines, and catchy music that left viewers wanting more or less.

Access/orized Imagination, Appropriative Ingenuity, Ambient Insights, Artistic Immiseration, Alchemic Incipiency. Addicted to the unconscious slot machine collective. Mad-lib nostalgia dependency and word salad diet fads. Regardless of form, there’s little doubt Helium Miracle Attias Worth would tap dance across the cruel face of humanity.

The video quickly went viral, earning millions of views and attracting widespread attention from music fans, art critics, and digital insiders alike.

Welcome to the party,

Grant Worth Most

MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE SOOON! But until then, we party.

Chiki Tiki Boom!
Presented at The Hole, Tribeca
86 Walker Street
Saturday June 3rd, 2023
Reception 7pm

Video Premiere 8:30pm

Hello it’s me, Fun,

Big $unny, No Whammies! Tropical playhouse days, artificially imagined evenings - get yourself a music-ish video that can do both. Adventure a viral ding dong bliss dance with your bestie? Well, pump up the BOOM! 

CHIKI TIKI BOOM! is a sweaty, Mad-lib nostalgia sensation, addicted to the unconscious slot machine collective. Brought to life by artist Grant Worth and musician-healer-Dancorcist, Debbie Attias. Shot on a remote island in Panama and caressed frame x frame, the video is a product of adventure, joy, collaborative practice, and “LOL-ing in the the sun.” Join us in tap dancing across the cruel face of humanity. Together we are the greatest sum.

Welcome to the party,

Grant and Debbie

Often ambient, occasionally active sonic story time! Sounds like a bargain doesn’t it? “Sail Away - Return Full Price” is the new composition by GTL - Grant, Tim, and Laura Worth. Last Summer, on a nearly sinking sailboat off the coast of Maine, we simultaneously harvested sounds and celebrated our parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Together back on dry land, Tim knobbed the synth, Laura cooed her pipes, and Grant drove the laptop. Mixed and Mastered by Jeremiah Glazer. Come. Sail Away - It’s Free?! It must be GOOD! #GigaTunaLobsters

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Good morning chickens, and happy Easter Glamour!

Easter Glamour 2022, Haunted Mansion

Analog NFTs. Let the bidding begin. Click on the image to peep the series.

1 - “A Collaboration with the Weather”

2 - “Please Remove the Host”

3 - “The Twig She Took”

4 - “Never Monkey with Another Monkey’s Monkey… but longer than that”

 5 - “Soft Zoltar”

6 - “The Murder Will Begin Shortly”

7 - “He Looks Like a Sex Doll That You Pay For”

8 - “Golfing on the Gaza Strip”

9 - “He got COVID at the Eagle”

10 - “Is Everybody Watching “Everybody Loves Raymond”?” 

I created a series of studio shots for Joshua Thew's single 'CHANGES' - premiering this week on all the music places. Click on the image to view some selects.

Elizaveta Federmesser graciously let me incorporate stills of sculptures she created for her music video into the backdrops

Styled, Produced, and Dots Connected by Sean Suozzi

I created several Polaroid manipulations for Joshua Thew's single 'CHANGES' - premiering today on all the music places. Click on the image to view the series

Styled, Produced, and Dots Connected by Sean Suozzi

UPDATE! You guessed it. I’m in a band now.

Tim clocked 40 rounds the sun during deep COVID, so the following year we celebrated 40/41 on the edge of Yellowstone in Montana. Tim and Laura roadtripped with a modular synth snuggled in the back seat. We immediately rearranged all the furniture and made the living room our recording studio. We captured the park’s Earth sounds and incredible megafauna living their lives. We chose samples and fed them into the synth. From Tim’s hour long performance, we created more samples, manipulated and sequenced them into this track. Thermal Events Are Neither Trash Cans Nor Wishing Wells. NJOY.

GTL ON BANDCAMP

I shot, edited, sound designed, and hatched this video work for Erez Sabag and Mia Le Journal

Unpredictable Issue XIII

Mundane

Photographed in NYC by Erez Sabag

Starring Lizzette Pinto E Melo 

Fashion Editor - Michela Buratti 

Video and Sound Design - Grant Worth 

Makeup - Tobi Henney 

Casting Director - Barbara Pfister 

Producer - Roger Dong 

Photography Assistant - Michael Kyriankides 

Fashion Assistant - Amber Rose Smith

Holidays pass, but the horrors never end. "Pray, Montana" - My submission for the horror themed, third installment of Friend Film Festival.

Starring Laura and Tim Worth, featuring modular synth audio manipulation by Tim Worth. 

You've been warned

Last year during deep COVID, we made a music video for JJ Appleton's band Carbon County. "Get up and Die" Director of Photography Isaac Rosenthal

I made an eye rest for dear AHRKH's new heart bliss track. You can ear swoon to the entire album and cradle a magenta vinyl in your gentle hands by visiting Zam Sam Records.

I sound designed an audio bumper for Elizabeth Novogratz' inspirational podcast, Species Unite

Some bill skills while the babes are steeping. Edited for Erez Sabag

How many days were you NOT ready, willing, and able to work?

If I listen to the loud voice, it strikes me as privileged and miserably self centered to work under the assumption that exploring personal relationships is somehow universally relatable. Sophomore year of college, I had a traumatic experience during the class, "Existential Imagination" when I had to give a book review in front of everyone. My inability to articulate my inability to relate to a philosophical perspective uninspired by nature's details and mystery - discontent with the pauses between unexpected, unplanned human joy - uninterested in inspecting the cobwebs of life and the other beings we encounter along the way - rendered me speechless and statue frozen. All eyes on me. 

Recently, I have no trouble relating to that Imagination. I know I'm not alone in hoping that when I wake up tomorrow, heart throbs I once had will have been magically reignited, or rather... worth the clicks on the clock. 

In February, I spent two weeks with my brother creating sound for Chapter Five of a long term video project I'm somewhere near the middle of - "Approaching Centroid" was the title of the show I had scheduled for June. If left unfinished, the time Tim and I spent together would have been enough. 

"HomoMuseical" takes a more personal turn, admiring the cat's cradle of one specific human relationship. Johan Huizinga's study of play in culture and the etymology of the word frame this chapter.

How many days were you NOT ready, willing, and able to work?

Play is Freedom!

Presented here is "Chapter 5 - HomoMuseical" on its own, as well as Chapters One though Five together at last. Please enjoy!

Proud to be included as part of Empirical Nonsense's 365 days of END

We made a video for Bruno Coviello's BLISCORD track, "Hiding" - featuring Taja Cheek AKA L'Rain. Bliscord's debut, Body of Work, is available now.

THIS FRIDAY - Giant generous feelz to SSHH for inviting me to participate in their mini retrospective series. Come take the tour! We will be premiering Bliscord's new music video at 8PM.

On the eve of this certain Gemini’s fortieth solar circle, SSHH will present a collection of highlights from twenty years of making shit up and pointing at favorite hearts. It’s a technicolor creation story I think you know too. The hermit urge is heavy, but the truth turns out - all we’ve got is each other.

A few recent behind the scenes I edited for fashion photographer Erez Sabag - so grateful Erez lets me go wild.

Today begins the last two weeks of my show at Feature Hudson Foundation. Open Wednesday through Saturday 12-6pm. I'd love for you to see it. 

4 Stellar Artworks in NYC This Summer - By David Behringer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“TALKIE PHARMAKON” DOMINATES HANDOUTS OF IMAGINED INSTITUTIONAL HERO AWARDS – POISONS SOME, CURES UNKNOWN

“FILM” BOASTS A DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE GROSS OF NOTHING MORE THAN HAND HELD SIMPLE MAGIC AND DEEP FASCINATION

Feature Hudson Foundation, New York City, May 11, 2018 – Mission Fantastic presents SEASONS PREMIERE, Grant Worth’s first solo exhibition in five years and his first with Feature Hudson Foundation. The centerpiece, “Talkie Pharmakon,” is a feature length video manifesto for being, presented in four seasonal chapters. Worth describes the picture as “a sound designed-home movie-performance poem starring landscapes of the North American continent, Worth’s biological family, and a playful community of lighthouses whose hearts are woven together by living room dance floors and a cat’s cradle of glittered threads.” Each chapter features a unique style of aural exploration and a narration of texts written by John Muir, Terence McKenna, Bill McKibben, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Albert Hofmann, Donna J. Haraway, and (The Original) Roseanne Barr.

SEASONS PREMIERE also features Worth’s first adventures in sculpture – a series of familiar awards fashioned out of the chemical element Bismuth (atomic number 83) as well a series of movie posters advertising collaboration and Staying with the Trouble.

“Talkie Pharmakon” showtimes begin 30 minutes after the gallery opens and every 90 minutes until close. SEASONS PREMIERE opens at Feature Hudson Foundation May 11th with red carpet festivities from 6-8pm. Curtains down August 4th, 2018.