Audio Kino: Sound Aspects of Material Elements
Sunday October 2nd, 8pm
£4 suggested donation
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Sound Aspects of Material Elements
John Grzinich
Concept, camera, editing: John Grzinich.
Additional sound: Patrick McGinley.
Collaborative recordings made with: Patrick McGinley, Jim Haynes, Toomas Thetlof, Maksims Shentelevs, Kaspars Kalninsh, Eamon Sprod, Hitoshi Kojo and Evelyn Müürsepp.
AudioKino
The AudioKino project presents work in which film, video and sound meet: In 2011, SoundFjord, the UK’s only gallery and research unit devoted to sound art, began in earnest to present an ongoing series of film and video works under the banner’ AudioKino’ (SoundCinema): a platform to interrogate the nexus between sound and image (its concept and articulation) within cinema and new media practices.
Taking place in a variety of venues including art house cinemas, galleries and living rooms, AudioKino is an ongoing dialogue between cinematic and private space, and audience; and conceptual impetus and technology. Through this programme, SoundFjord endeavours to present adventures in ‘audiocentric’ cinema – a journey through objectivity and abstraction, documentary, fiction and everything in between. And at every step, paying particular interest to sound and score.
Further information: soundfjord.org
About the Film:
Sound Aspects of Material Elements reveals how our sense of hearing can use non- linguistic signals to communicate, interpret and build relations to the world around us. Using sound as the primary signifer, the flm shows a specifc approach to the artistic use of sound, covering a three-year period of the authors personal research and collaborations with a number of close colleagues. The flm documents in-situ processes of exploration and sonifcation of the landscape along with the numerous objects and structures found there.
All the sound recordings emphasize how the combinations of certain materials (metal, wood, glass) with natural elements (water, wind, fire), take on alchemical characteristics as we listen in. We experience aeolian metal wires in the wind, structures affected by fire, water, snow and the casual efects of human interventions in insect worlds. The sonic outcomes can be subtle and sometimes below our common perception so a variety of experimental recording techniques were employed. Contact microphones are placed on surfaces shifting our attention toward the internal resonances of the materials themselves while mini microphones reveal spaces normally inaccessible by our ears. What we hear is what we see, yet is sometimes translated through amplifed means.
With its minimal editing style and durational shots, Sound Aspects of Material Elements shifts our attention toward and extended view of time and place, of the ever changing micro-processes that hint to eternal growth and decay inherent to cycles of nature itself. The possibilities to intercept, shape, disrupt, recombine and capture the elements through creative experiments is what this flm attempts to illustrate in the interest that it may inspire the viewer to listen in new way.
About the Artist:
John Grzinich (b.1970) has been working with sound as an artistic medium since the early 1990s. He lives and works in Estonia with MoKS a non-proft artist run space. Grzinich’s poetics and aesthetics are derived from the inspirational sources of experimental music and the psycho-acoustics of natural and architectural space be it through found phenomenon or intervention. He captures, decomposes and combines sonic, morphological and chromatic aspects of natural and social processes, seeking their mutual relations and production of new meanings.
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