Category: Film

Svetlana Maraš – Radio Concert No.2 (excerpt)

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date September 2, 2022

Live performance for EMS Synthi 100, magnetic tape and computer setup (2021)

Radio Concert No.2 is a result of a continuous experimentation with combining the synthesizer EMS Synthi 100 and computer setup in a context of live performance that has been initially dedicated to a live radio broadcast. I have started developing this idea in a Radio Concert No.1 from 2018 and with this new piece, I have taken the idea much further. A complex synthesizer such as Synthi 100 is adapted to a virtuosic real-time sound manipulations that involve the use of computer as a complementary tool. Computer controllers that allow great deal of physical expressiveness in shaping the sound in real-time (such as Sensel Morph, foot pedal, TouchOSC app), interact with the synthesizer and allow rapid changes and complex organization of the material on the spot, that makes improvisation possible and fruitful. I like characterizing my approach lately as doing the inversion of the music-concrete – I don’t use any concrete sounds in my work, but with granular and micro-sampling techniques, I am recreating certain quality that we relate to concrete sounds. Radio Concert No.2 has couple of different recorded iterations as well as live video-version. This is an excerpt from 30min. video. This work the last piece that I made before leaving my job as head of Radio Belgade’s Electronic Studio.

Premiered at Espace Multimedia Gantner, Radio Belgrade, OUTRA festival, Heroines of Sound More info: https://www.svetlanamaras.com/radioco…

Tags ems, synthi, synthi100

Art Avant Garde Experimental Film Musique Concrète

Loren Chase | KQED Spark

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date August 29, 2022

Join KQED’s Spark and take a listening lesson from sound artist Loren Chasse, as he mines the aural riches that surround us.

Tags field recording

Ambient Art Film

Brian Eno – Imaginary Landscapes

Post author By Flatland Frequencies
Post date August 29, 2022

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Aesthetics Art Culture Film

Johannes Binotto – Practices of Viewing: Muted

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date July 14, 2022

“On Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter the standard setting for videos is “mute”. More than 120 years after its invention silent cinema has become the default mode.
Today’s practice is supposed to make video consumption smoother. But it could also make us think about the frightening power silence could only attain with the advent of cinematic sound. In muting we might hear something far more unsettling than what words and images can show.”

Tags video essay

Art Film

Faulty Borders – Jez Riley French

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date December 16, 2021

“As a species we’re builders of borders & escapists. We construct structures that contain and we long to escape them. At least, that is what we think we are doing but we often invent new systems to deal with the old systems. In escaping we simply replace one uniform with another. One border with another. Perhaps it’s in our nature to constantly need these straight lines.

I’d like to talk about borders. Faulty borders.”

Tags field recording, video essay

Art Culture Electro-Acoustic Experimental Film

The Cabin

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date June 17, 2021

Experimental recordist alas23 presents a sonic exploration of a Soviet era bus cabin, using contact microphones and an electromagnetic field antenna. As well as making the occasional video on Vimeo, alas23 is a regular contributor on Radio Aporee, visit there if you want to hear more.

Tags field recording

Culture Film Techno

Jeff Mills – Where Light Ends

Post author By Jeran Portis
Post date May 21, 2021

The recent republishing of this short video to Vimeo provides enough of an excuse for us to post here. Originally made in 2013 for Mill’s Where Light Ends album this short film provides visual and musical accompaniment to Dr. Mamoru Mohri‘s account of his first spaceflight, which took place in 1992 on the space shuttle Endeavour.

Art Film

Here Is Elsewhere – Sarah Wood

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date February 19, 2021

“Right now, for the preservation of life, the citizen is being asked to isolate by staying remote and staying still. Stillness and fixity after an age of speed and motion – it’s quite a shock. Later art can analyse this time; now it can only chronicle it, notice the way in which, in unprecedented times, new phenomena surprise us.

Here’s one. In a sudden and involuntary response to stillness, people are starting to travel without moving. People are voyaging in their minds to visualize places remote from the ones they inhabit. Stillness and fixity, it seems, have unleashed the volition and freedom of our imaginations. Our minds are supplying what the world cannot: waking visions, nighttime dreams, compensating for our circumscribed existence – healing us by making associations. Overnight we’ve become nomads of the imagination – our minds reaching out to others across the world.

Here is Elsewhere is an essay film about this psychological phenomenon, asking whether transformations in perception will enable us to think and live differently in the future.”

Ambient Culture Film

Susumu Taka – Bright Days & Peaceful Nights

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date February 9, 2021

On a cold, snowy evening of the social distanced winter of 2021 we take stock and drift back not so many months to the warm summer of 2019 when this video was shot, on a mini-DV Handycam, in various locations around Felixstowe. The music is inspired by Japanese Environmental music and was composed on Nanoloop IOS. If you want more visit Penname records.