Like a coloured quilt by Samantha Moore
This is a section of my work in progress An Eyeful of Sound (eyefulofsound.blogspot.com). It is an animated doc about people with synaesthesia, and this bit is Julie describing listening to an orchestra. Julie is now a professional oboe player and married a composer...!
Made in painter and motion.
Complicated by Gabriel Shalom
Cornelia and Holger Lund of the Stuttgart-based media art gallery Fluctuating Images asked me to contribute a music video for the “Vidos” DVD release to accompany the new solo album “Dos” from Michael Fakesch. The CD/DVD combination release is a tried and true format for Fakesh; in 2004, as a member of Funkstörung, he assembled a who’s who of international designers when releasing the “Isolated” DVD as a companion to the CD “Disconnected” album on !K7 Records.
Patrizia Kommerell and I had purchased some vintage microfiche reader equipment in 2006 for an installation project and had always wanted an opportunity to use the characteristic look and feel of the devices for another function. After scrapping several narrative treatments, we settled on a purely graphic concept which combined analog motion with digital postproduction.
Our production technique was to use the microfiche reader’s generously-sized viewfinder apparatus as a means for controlling the motion of graphic elements placed inside. The result was a number of single takes in which I danced the apparatus in time to Fakesch’s music, achieving a number of organic takes which would all contain a natural relationship to the rhythm of the song.
The video material was composited along with select pictures from our archives. We chose images which depict obsolete analog communications and media technologies, adding to the vintage flair of the well-established analog aesthetic.
The resulting unique visualization of the song clashed the electronic sounds with analog images in a satisfying manner, while also allowing glimpses of the video-making process to peek through the graphics.
Directed & Edited by Gabriel Shalom
Music by Michael Fakesch
Production design by Patrizia Kommerell
Produced by KS12
Aerosol Amoeba by Pahnl
Breathing life into spray paint.
...144 hours of motion condensed down to four minutes.
Music by Kidstreet
- myspace.com/kidstreet
Filmed and edited by Pahnl
- pahnl.co.uk
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