The reason I came across this artist is that my son (Bailey) worked on this video of him. It’s a good pop/rock song and I thought I would pass it along. It’s a good song…give it a chance. Bailey worked as the DoP and Colorist.
This is from Spotify:
Raised in Minneapolis, 20 year old Cort Dingman combines elements of jazz, psychedelia, funk, alternative, blues, and more, into an indie rock sound. Filled with colorful licks, soulful chords, and an improvisational structure, Cort’s songs offer a unique sound that is likely to please your ears.
His cherished relationship with music began when he was 10, when he first picked up the saxophone. He then took a year of piano lessons, and began teaching himself. Not long after, Cort picked up drums, bass, uke, and finally guitar at the age of 16. He began making his own music in the form of Lofi-Jazz around this time, but after branching out in genre, he felt the need to pick the pace of his music up a bit.
One thing that makes Cort stand out is his connection of color to music. Since he began playing, he corresponded colors to each note, due to a condition known as color synesthesia. Cort feels his distinctiveness and use of experimentation is most visible is his most recent work, in the form of upcoming album, “Tinted Vibrations”. This is his most authentic and meaningful project, inspired by vast changes made in his life during this time, struggles he’s come across in his relationships, and an eye-opening realization of what life means to him versus the contemplated triviality of life and the universe itself.
Cort is now based in Nashville, TN, where he continues striving and working toward his dream of making music something he can make the most of in this life.
Video details: Director – Sean Wenning DoP and Colorist – Bailey Gower Editor – Jacob Brawley Assistant Editor – Molly Pemelton
Plant Girl
I saw her alone sitting next to me
The words all seem so pointless but we’ve got nowhere to be
Her eyes were shining bright but were
Afraid to see the light
She keeps me on my toes but I don’t
Know where this’ll go ‘cos
I can’t see through my own eyes
I’d like to think that this is right
And you are everything I’d need but
I’m scared of my own head, and what it makes me think
Your lips shift time, passing by
I don’t wonder why
The plants in her room speak to me as we
Hold each other close
She asks me what I’m thinking and I’ll say that
I don’t know, ‘cos
My mind’s moving way to fast
I try to tell you what I can
And you don’t see what I see
You’re perfect and I’ll always try to
Be just what you need
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The video looks great.
They did a good job on it.
The photography is great, you must be very proud of Bailey.
Yes I am…he graduates in May….he worked on a B horror movie this past Summer… so far so good.
Cool song and video. Sounds like a very versatile musician. Great that your son Bailey had a role in this.
Thanks so much. I’m rooting for the guy to get noticed…yea and my son lol.
I liked the mellowness of the song. And interesting video (and color!)
Same here 🙂
Thanks for listening Matt
Bailey did well on the production with colours. Talented so and so.
Thanks Matt…he is getting better…he graduates in May…
Super Max. You must both be proud anfd excited.
Phillies doing well 👍👌😉
Yes I am… The Phillies are surprising everyone! I love it.
Early days still, but if they get a win tonight. Tomorrow will be all guns blazing.
Yea they have two more games in Philly so them at home have been awesome this year.
They have to take advantage of that. Fingers crossed.
Good for Bailey! A professional looking video. It’s a good one for his portfolio. I have an idea of what the DoP (I assume director of photography) does but what was his role as ‘colorist’? Hope it gets him some more work , you’re in the right city (or one of the three or four) for music vids. As for the song itself, I like Cort’s guitar playing, has a neat sort of retro vibe to the whole sound which shows potential I imagine.
The color part they had trouble with…after they shoot it they set the colors to warm bright or whatever…he had some problems getting it right with the software they use but finally found out what was wrong…I thought it looked pretty good.
Yea that guy is a talented player no doubt.
Colorist is when someone raw footage out of a camera and makes sure the exposure is correct…it goes into shadows and mid-tones etc… to make sure it is properly exposed and the color is not clipping. He just needed to bring out the colors more and saturation.
Nice! Good job on the video! Had a listen to a couple tracks from Cort’s latest album…. very pleasant sort of dream-pop. Kinda in the Tame Impala mode, I’d say from the wee bits I heard. 🙂
“Tame Impala Mode” I will have to remember that!
Excellent video and it meshes so well with the music and lyrics. Professional level for sure. I like the dreamy quality to the music.
Thanks Lisa…he will be happy to read that.
You’re welcome!
Yeah good indie vibe, a sort of thrashing melodic feel to it.. think i will buy that one! Thanks for posting! Hope they all do well and get a following.
Thanks for listening! Glad you liked it.
This is awesome Dude! Bailey should be proud as he did a great 👍 job! Congrats to him on graduating soon. His future is bright abs he will need to wear shades!😎
Thanks for giving it a listen Deke! He puts his soul in it which is good to see. He graduates in May so then he can work on many things.
Awesome that’s what we all want with our kids to have a great future and Bailey has a bright one ahead Bro!
Thanks dude…I could have used him back when I played lol.
Hahaha. We could have all used a kid like Bailey back than but it was all about filming with a camcorder and VHS tape lol. Compared to now we were like the Flintstones back in the 80s lol
You are right man…we even filmed with a 8mm at one time lol.
Good young new voice, and ya gotta be proud of Bailey- it’s what a parent wants to see, isn’t it?
I first became aware of Colorist (or, as we say here, Colourist,) watching behind-the-scenes’Dexter,’ where they had to make grey concrete LA look like loud bright and vibrant and Miami. They changed background building tones etc and added a bit of CGI. The things that are done behind the scenes never ceases to amaze.
I’m’ rearranging my site a little…and I came across this which I rudely didn’t reply to! I kind of know what a colorist does but I’m not an expert.
It’s so cool how they do this. Silent movies did it as well…tint it blue for night and etc…
And as soon as I posted my answer below up pops the ‘star!’
Congrats to Bailey, Max, I had no idea he’s studying to become a videographer – hope my characterization is doing it justice. So when is he going to produce your next video? 🙂
Joking aside, Bailey did a great job. I also like Cort’s guitar sound and that he’s a true multi-instrumentalist. All pretty cool stuff!
Yes he is studying to be a cinematographer. He graduates in May so he will be able to do corporate or any videos or movies…which is cool.
Thanks man I really appreciate it…glad you liked it. I appreciate you giving it a chance.
Bailey is doing well for himself. Excellent.
Yea he is doing well…I can’t wait til he graduates.
I really like “Plant Girl”, with its bouncy groove and shimmery guitars. Cort’s brand of alternative indie pop is right up my alley. He’s a talented young singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with quite a large following; his 2020 single “Yesterday” has had over a million streams on Spotify! The video’s great too, and I like the warm, sunny tones. Kudos to Bailey for his fine work!
Thanks for listening Jeff. It caught my ear right away. Bailey will appreciate the compliment!
All good Max, lots gets lost in the back pages. I sometimes stumble over something in one of my old posts that I’m looking at for some reason- see if I’m plagiarising myself or something-and I find a comment I missed or failed to like. Much like this one here, which I can’t ‘like’ because I can’t find the ‘like” star!!!
Mind you, WP is getting a little flaky again according to some stories I’ve heard. (In my case people who’ve long subscribed to the site and their comment goes to spam for some random reason.) I don’t dare wish to think that WP is about to make our/their experience ‘easier’ with another spew- sorry, slew of ‘improvements.’😬
Yea I will be looking through them a lot coming up…cleaning up old posts.
It is getting flaky! I don’t know why you haven’t found a star! But yes…since they updated in Jan of 25…my notification bell doesn’t show any comments unless I refresh my page manually. I’ve emailed them enough to be a novel…”we are working on it…we are working on it”….I told them…don’t bullshit me…I’m IT…what is going on? And they finally said the programmers had to put it off because of something bigger…so we are still going at it.
What I’m doing now is making a new index page for my songs… for the past 6 years I’ve had to manually copy and paste the new song in after posting it…now…when I activate the new index page…it will do it automatically after my post posts.
Oh My God !’They’re working on ‘something bigger????’ That sounds awfully ominous, like hearing the Empire is busy making a bigger better ‘Death Star.’
The index seems a quick ‘n’ easy way to reference a song. But a lot of work, and you posted daily for years.
Just to clarify, I’ve never lived in the States but I and one or two of the kids have visited for three-four weeks for maybe 5-6 family visits over the years. I’m glad we did, now only my younger bro is left, but such is life.😑 My sweet Lou never went on those trips, she was petrified of flying until she HAD to fly to go visit a sick friend. I thought she’d have to be poured on board/massively tranquilised to be able to do it . But luckily that sink-or-swim/fly-or-stay-forever-grounded method worked! Thank God, otherwise we never would have ever flown to Scotland when our eldest moved there.