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Perspectives 2012 (20-21/4) Experiment. in dialogue
Perspectives 2012 (20-21/4) Experiment. in dialogue
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Works from elektronmusikstudion’s archive with Swedish film & video art programme selected by Tomas Nygren Friday 20/4 17.20 – 24.00 Venue: Culturen, Box 2 Saturday 21/4 16.40 - 24.00 Venue: Culturen, Box 2 [DOWNLOAD SCHEDULE HERE] pdf As a force of catalysation, hearing. You are confronted within the world of an electro-acoustical space. Acousmatic explorations, experiments, time and politics creates traces in which we can see as the early period (1965–1979) at the Elektronmusikstudion’s (EMS). Now carefully stored as slots-for-the-future in the production long term archive in Stockholm. A time when the electro–acoustic medium and its expresssions developed toward a good ear for listening, hearing, reflecting, and self-identifying? Although my claims are not definite, I got after working in direct contact with the archive in 2009 a personal sensation, or even physical imprint that was needed to be brought out. Different streams were contrasting each others aestetical concepts and workflows: Swedish sound-text "activism" vs. technological romanticism; a computer's happy ending vs. the hard work of compositional devotion. The selections chosen have obviously different stories to tell. Complex works are mixed with material of "intermissive" character. Some works has been selected because of their rarity for the contemporary public, such as the minimal electro-acoustic composer Roberta Settels. Some has been selected just for the fun of it! Some works are played in their original format: Reel tape. An indeed unique moment to experience some glipses of experimentation and exploration! Thanks to the newly renovated venue, Box 2 in Culturen, the idea of an film and video art programme for the festival was not far-fetched. The general thought – a "leader" – was to create a visual scenery in dialogue with the festival music programme mixed with the pioneeric mood of the tape concerts in Box 2. Exploring re-newed sensations of poetry for sound and music in the film and video arts. - Tomas Nygren EMS ARCHIVE PROGRAMME: Anders Hillborg / Rite of passage Year: 1979, Length: 12min 30sec , Medium: 1/4" Stereo Tape Eventhough Anders Hillborg is better known for his choral and orchestral works, 'Rite of Passage' is an example on his early visits into electronic composition. With large density, a winter breeze shows its strength. Releases: Available on Fylkingen Records FYLP-1027 http://www.hillborg.com/  sonogram landscape made from Folke Rabe's Cyclone Folke Rabe / Cyclone Year: 1984-85, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape What characterizes an annihalation process? I don't believe that catastrophes necessarily make a lot of noise. There are several indications that we are in the midst of a world crisis that has been going on for a long while - a crisis that is stealthy rather than dramatic. For a long time we believed that the Swedish nature paradise was not exposed to the risks that threaten more densely populated parts of the world. Late in the day we have become aware of the areas, particularly in Eastern Europe, where industrial exploitation has carried on regardless, while the grim effects on the physical environment have been ignored. Since the end of the 1980s we have begun to see drastic examples of the effects of this development even here in Sweden. When I composed an electro-acoustic work in 1984/85 I wanted to produce music that on some plane made this sort of process of slow, successive collapse manifest. The great cycles, the huge downward spiral, the retarded movements are, I feel, characteristic metaphors. Cyclone was commissioned by the Swedish Concert Institute and was produced in Studio 1 at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm. It was first performed in a radio broadcast from Radio WNYC in New York in March, 1985. - Folke Rabe Jan W Morthenson / Post Scriptum Year: 1971, Length: 4min 40sec, Media: 1/4" Mono Tape Music to TV pause programme. Commissioned by: Swedish Radio/SVT Channel 1.  sonogram made from Kari Keskinen's Reverse Osmosis Kari Keskinen / Reverse Osmosis Year: 1981, Length: 12min 20sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Karin Rehnqvist / Musik från vårt klimat (transl. Music from our climate) Year: 1981-82, Length: 11min 20sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Klaus Röder / Mr Frankensteins babies Year: 1979, Length: 10min 42sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Composers comment: This tape piece I just made with the sounds of my own voice. The sounds were worked out in an envelope shape and then copied one upon the other so that there was a chorus. The piece got the 1st price in the category 'Analogue' at the competition in Bourges. Also it got the price 'Euphones d'or' in Bourges. It was chosen for the World Music Days in Israel and was played at the festivals in Stockholm, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Unknown composer / Elektronic Charleston Year: Early 60's, Lenth: 2min 27sec, Media: 1/4" Mono Tape Realised at the Siemens studio in München Patrik Kiosk / Trancedance Year: 1981, Length: 12min 20sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Rune Lindblad / Predikan (transl. "Sermon") Year: 1960's, Length: 9min 50sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rune+Lindblad Unreleased? Rune Lindblad / Röster (transl. "Voices") Year: 1971, Length: 5min 30sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rune+Lindblad Rune Lindblad / Rio Amazonas (op. 123) (part I and II) Year: 1975, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Part I: Length: 13min 06sec Part II: Length: 12 min http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rune+Lindblad Other impressions / Joel Chadabe Year: 1968, Length: 9min 04sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Collage composition. Mussem's song / Jon H. Appleton Year: 1976, Length: 7min 39sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Made in the computer studio with help of the vocal syntesizer "MUSSE" from the Royal Institute of Technology. Released at Folkways Records – FTS 33445 http://www.appletonjon.com/ Genesis / Zaid Holmin Year: 1976, Length: 13min 39sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Mixed woth help of 3 psc Tandberg 6 players. The small beeps in the end of the composition was supposed to shut down the SR radio network service in the end of the day. Anne Jaenzon / Huset i New Orleans Year: 1998, Length: 3min 41sec, Media: 1/4" Stereo Tape Spårar / Anders Blomqvist Year: 1997, Length: 9min 50sec, Media: Digital file from DAT The piece is a direct response to "Löpa Varg" (1995, with texts by Bengt Emil Johnson) and is relating to the same theme - the wolf as a biological animal, myth, metaphor, or whatever you want. It is also possible to recognize some audio material from "Löpa Varg" and although "Spårar" does not contain any direct perceptible elements of text, I want Bengt Emil's spirit permeate even this piece. "Spårar" was composed in the summer and early fall of 1997 at the studio for electroacoustic music in Växjö and was comissioned by Media Artes & Concerts Sweden. Transition to Majorana Space / Svante Bodin Year: 1969, Length: 10min 54sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Roberta Settels / Isolation - Meinhoff in Memoriam Year: 1977, Length: 12min 12sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Although ‘isolation’ was composed in 1985, most parts of it sound very fresh and contemporary. Very unique for it’s time, the timbres and formal progression of the work bare little resemblance to the electroacoustic maximalism of the period. rather it shares aesthetics with contemporary genres such as lowercase and microsound. the music, all generated by pure analog means, contains elements of extreme minimalism and splicing-techniques derived from the tape-music tradition. even though the work, making clever use of sine-waves and white noise, it is very minimal in it’s expression, and very clearly communicates the emotional states of lonliness and isolation which are it’s conceptual aim. Releases: music in crisis (denmark) #mic 8501 lp Releases: bin (sweden) #bin 00-02 lp www.robertasettels.com Roberta Settels / P4 Year: 1975, Length: 8min 45sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Roberta Settels / Landskap (or "Landscape with 3 tape-recorders and..." ) Year: 1973, Length 8min 45sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape Releases: music in crisis (denmark) #mic 8501 lp Releases: bin (sweden) #bin 00-02 lp Roberta Settels / Nöjen Year: 1970, Length: 7min 05sec, Media: Digital file digitalized from 1/4" Stereo Tape FILM PROGRAMME:  Olle Bonnier - Tesevs Year: 1965 Length: 10 min 00 sec Tesevs was ordered by the physicist and space researcher Hannes Alfvén, to be included in the multimedia production “Minos Palats” at the opening of the European Space Research Institute, Esro, in 1966. The performance went on tour and was performed at the Modern Museum in 1967 the last time. The sound image in Tesevs is based on nerve signals transformed into images and was performed at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. Some images in Tesevs are translated from sounds, others are shot at Domnarvets ironworks. A collaboration with Concerts Sweden, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and Esro.  Ralph Lundsten - EMS nr 1 Year: 1966 Length: 14 min 00 sec EMS nr 1 is an abstract sound/image composition where sound and image were composed together, the first in an experimentation project at Swedish Television. The robot´s voice in the beginning of EMS nr 1 was recorded at the Swedish Transmission Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology. EMS nr 1 was included in a feature film, Psychadelica Blues, where the EMS-parts got to represent the psychadelic experiences. EMS nr 1 received the main award at the Art Biennial in Paris, 1967, The Swedish Film Institute´s Quality Prize 1966 and also about thirty international film awards.  Marit Lindberg - Mikaelas röst Year: 1997 Length: 9 min 00 sec English voice Mikaela, 18 years, sings songs and tells us candidly about incidents in her own life. Just as the title, Mikaela's Voice - suggests, her voice is the mainstay of the film. The unfocused images follow our prejudices about the dramaturgy of the cinema, alternating with the forms of interview sequences in a drama documentary. It is through Mikaela's voice that we receive answers to our questions while the visual elements, at least initially, appeal to our imagination. Towards the end both sound and image collide giving us an insight into Mikaela's life and raising questions about the importance of perception. - Catrin Lundqvist  Jan W. Morthenson - Lux Sonora Year: 1979 Length: 20 min An interesting example of electro-acoustic and light composition  Hans Esselius och Kjartan Slettemark - Nixon visions Year: 1971 Length: 4 min 00 sec A film about multi-media artist Kjartan Slettemark's Nixon Visions, the collective title of his famous pictorial version of president Nixon, made 1971-74. It has its beginning in, among other things, Slettemark's slogan "Opposition Must Pay Off". The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act between humor and seriousness. Slettemark's advertising campaign is "a study of Nixon's mental health in wich the face is the mirror of the soul".  Gunvor Nelson - My name is Oona Year: 1969 Length: 10 min 00 sec B/W My Name is Oona was Nelson?s final breakthrough on the American avant-garde film scene. The sound consists of Nelson?s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying "my name is Oona". The latter is edited into an expressive rythmical structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child. The soundtrack was made in co-operation with Steve Reich.  Andreas Gavell-Mohlin - Soundbombing 20081102 Year: 2009 Length: 7 min 29 sec During the year 2008 a pen that writes with sound instead of colour was built. "Soundbombing 20081102" documents a nightly walk with the aim of painting parts of Stockholm city with sound. Camera and editing: Felix Rhenberg.  Michel Wenzer - Three Poems by Spoon Jackson Year: 2003 Length: 14 min sec A poetic short film in three parts about Spoon Jackson - a man who has spent 25 years in prison. It is through poetry that he survives. A moving film that blends imagery with Spoon's poetry recited over the phone. Voice and words: Spoon Jackson; poet, writer and actor, born in 1958 in California, USA. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977.  Gunilla Leander - All Under Year: 2003 Length: 5 min 45 sec Out of the void a naked cast clash in violent confrontation... Bodies collide, miss, twist and embrace. Tense, gripping, fluid and spinning, All Under evinces a scenario both dynamic yet melancholy... all asunder... All Under.  Lina Selander - Reconstruction Year: 1999-2000 Length: 6 min 30 sec Inststamatic pictures ? sewn in and reversed. These images were all very ordinary with typical scenes from a family album: vacations, trips abroad, family gatherings etc. The sewing threads in the pictures ? coast sewn to ocean, clouds to sky or people sewn to each other ? marks a way of codifying the emotional structures and relations in the images, thus controlling an interpretation of them and highlighting (while at the same time trying to bridge) the gap between image and reality. The sewing threads and the holes from the needle in the images emerged as the essence of an intense and hidden reality, containing a truth which was lacking in the original images. The reversed images show this unveiled truth. I then used the reversed images with the stitches, holes and threads, and inverted in order to return to the negative, basic photographic image, as a musical score for a digital composition. The red dot reading the diagram like figures and transforming them into sound becomes a staging of the act of remembering. It reads the repressed and hidden, and what hides behind the screen memory.  Anna Linder - cum pane - the one you share your bread with Year: 2002 Length: 8 min 00 sec It's physically demanding and sweaty. Grandma's hands are gnarled from years of pain and hard work. Hands knead the dough. She works with rolling-pins, brushes and older baking utensils. She deftly places the bread on a peel and sets it in the stone oven. Grandpa takes care of the wood-burning , watches over it, blows life into it, again and again. He moves the bread around on the hot hearth. They work noiselessly. Close to each other. |
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