SOUNDS AND IMAGES (3)

the combination of two or more media layers into a single concordant texture in which each retains its linear character

Polyphony - independence of parts

Heterophony - relative independence with a single guiding idea (independent ornamentation, time offsets, simultaneous melodic variants, different articulation etc.)

Monophony - attempt of “fusion” into a single thread

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INTERMEDIA COUNTERPOINT

Synchresis - (derived from synchronism and synthesis)

“the spontaneous and irresistible mental fusion, completely free of any logic, that happens between a sound and a visuals when these occur at exactly the same time.”

Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound on the Screen, 1994

THOMAS KÖNERPASAJEROS PEREGRINOS

PILOTOS(2008), 3 min.

media installation for Quinta Normal Station Santiago

12 plasma screens 42”

single channel remix

“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. “

“In studying poetic speech (...) we find material obviously created to remove the automatism of perception; the author’s purpose is to create the vision which results from that deautomatized perception. A work is created ‘artistically’ so that its perception is impeded and the greatest possible effect is produced through the slowness of the perception.“

Victor Shklovskij “Art as Device” (1917)

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ESTRANGEMENT

CHIKASHI MIYAMAQUICKSILVER

(2010), 7 min.

single channel video

“So long as the expression ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (or ‘integrated work of art’) means that the integration is a muddle, so long as the arts are supposed to be ‘fused’ together, the various elements will all be equally degraded, and each will act as a mere ‘feed’ to the rest. The process of fusion extends to the spectator, who gets thrown into the melting pot too and becomes a passive (suffering) part of the total work of art. Witchcraft of this sort must of course be fought against. Whatever is intended to produce hypnosis, is likely to induce sordid intoxication, or creates fog, must be given up.”

!Brecht on Theatre:

The Development of an Aesthetic. 1964

STANLEY KUBRICK

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

(1968), 2 h 41 min.

film

Gyorgy Ligeti – Atmospheres (0:00)

– Requiem (11:48, 51:14)

– Lux Aeterna (45:42)

Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra (3:00)

Johann Strauss – The Blue Danube (waltz, 19:54)