In Brief:
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
In more detail:
This programme includes sound works that aspire to and sometimes go beyond the visual: Luc Ferrari’s masterpiece Presqeu Rien, a sonic photograph of a Dalmatian fishing village at dawn; Walter Ruttman’s Weekend, a 35mm film shot over a weekend in Berlin in the last 1920 without ever removing the lens cap, and treating the 35mm camera as the most sophisticated sound recording device of it’s time.
And it contains works by silent film works that turn musical concepts towards vision: Kurt Kren’s TV, in which a structure inspired by the “serialist” composition techniques of the composer Anton Webern, in which a set of units (sounds, or here images) are arranged logically in series without repeating their order.
| title | artist |
|---|---|
| Presque rien ou Le lever du jour au bord de la mer | Luc Ferrari, France, 1967 – 1970, audio, 20:00min |
| 15/67 TV | Kurt Kren, Austria, 1967, 16mm, 4:08min |
| 21/87 | Arthur Lipset, Canada, 1963, 16mm 11:00min |
| Weekend | Walter Ruttman, Germany, 1930, 35mm, 11:30min |
| Dimanche | Edmond Bernhard, Belgium, 1963, 16mm, 20:00min |
