9th meething, Wednesday, November 24th

MOKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
John Grzinich's film Sound Aspects of Material Elements
Wednesday, November 24th, 6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

The 9th meeting of helikoosolek:tartu will feature the Estonian premiere of John Grzinich's film Sound Aspects of Material Elements.

The film is based on sound recordings made in Estonia and Portugal from 2006-2009. It shows a specific approach to the artistic use of sound, documenting a 3 year in-situ process of sonification, of exploring interactions between natural and man-made environments implementing numerous found objects in the context of landscapes and abandoned structures. The film employs a minimal editing style and durational shots, shifting 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 film illustrates in the interest that it may inspire the viewer to listen in new way.

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 signifier, the film shows a specific approach to the artistic use of sound, covering a 3 year period of the authors personal research and collaborations with a number of close colleagues. The film documents in-situ processes of exploration and sonification 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 effects 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 amplified means.

With its minimal editing style and durational shots, Sound Aspects of Material Elementsshifts 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 film attempts to illustrate in the interest that it may inspire the viewer to listen in new way.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu Linnavalitsus, and Eesti Kultuurkapital.


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