Two sound artists from the Soundtrackcity project. Francisco López created deep 'sonic universes' in the dark and Lee Patterson opens up an auditive world by using ‘contact mics’. The images this evening are by film alchemist Alex MacKenzie with the intimate 16mm set-up of Logbook and the immersive Emaki/Light by Ishida Takashi and Tiger Short nominee Makino Takashi, with live improvisation by cellist Okkyung Lee.
WORM, Sun 29, 22:00 till late.
Programmer Note by Peter van Hoof:
The sound performances of Francisco López are immersive sonic experiences in the dark, with multi-channel surround systems and blindfolds provided for the public. Created from a myriad of original sound environments (both natural and artificial) collected from all over the world, they however do not present ‘soundscapes’ but rather virtual worlds of sound where the listener develops his or her own experience in an environment where the rules and parameters are defined by the sounds themselves, are felt as space and as a physical dynamic force. Renowned for the intensity, richness and complexity of these virtual worlds, this is a one-of-a-kind experience not to be missed!
Makino and Ishida Takashi - Emaki, film screening with live music by Okkyung Lee (cello). Emaki features Ishida Takashi's supernatural scrolled and painted lines, conjured into life through Tiger Shorts' nominee Makino Takashi's telecine magic. Tonight Emaki will duel with the fearless, uncompromising Okkyung Lee, a cellist and composer whose extended techniques have seen her working with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn and Christian Marclay. Light and sound that will both hit you in the gut and massage your brain.
Director's Note about Logbook by Alex MacKenzie:
Using handmade black-and-white film emulsions painted onto raw celluloid, Logbook is a visual investigation and catalogue; traces of past life and moments passed, on a remote island mountain on the Pacific northwest coast of Canada. Filmed with a 1923 Cine-Kodak Model A - the first hand-cranked 16mm camera produced by Kodak - and presented live on a 16mm analytic projector. Frames are slowed, frozen, expanded, reversed and reprised in a study and interplay of surface and subject, where fleeting images crackle, tear and fold in on themselves to invoke the very silver nitrate of which they are made.
This film is very much a rumination on process and transformation, where light plays on the film's surface, then reforms to become something else. The serendipity of the methodology permits the image-making to take on a life of its own, not unlike the natural environment that is at source.