choque photos

marcus • April 9th, 2008

great atmospheric nighttime graffiti action photoset by a brazilian guy called choque

Naqoyqatsi

marcus • January 28th, 2008

Naqoyqatsi: Life as war is a documentary film released in 2002; it is the third and final film of the Qatsi trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. The film focuses on society’s transition from a natural environment to a technology-based industrial environment.

In the opening chapter, the first scene is a zoom in of the Tower of Babel as portrayed in the Bible, then, shots of an abandoned building from both interior and exterior are shown, followed by a black and white series of shots. One shot is one of a strong wave, followed by a mountain with an effect behind the mountains of stars falling like comets, then a natural scene, then a black and white animation of a mountain’s framework growing is shown, after that, inverted, black and white, layered people are seen walking. Many lines come above the scene, and then the title is revealed in big, red writing.

Source: Wikipedia

Powaqqatsi

marcus • January 28th, 2008

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation is the 1988 sequel to the experimental 1982 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi, by Godfrey Reggio. It is the second film in the Qatsi trilogy.

Powaqqatsi is a Hopi word meaning “parasitic way of life” or “life in transition”. While Koyaanisqatsi focused on modern life in industrial countries, Powaqqatsi, which similarly has no dialogue, focuses more on the conflict in third world countries between traditional ways of life and the new ways of life introduced with industrialization.

As with Koyaanisqatsi and the third and final part of the ‘Qatsi’ trilogy, Naqoyqatsi, the film is strongly related to its soundtrack, written by Philip Glass. Here, human voices (especially children’s and mainly from South America and Africa) appear more than in Koyaanisqatsi, in harmony with the film’s message and images.

Source: Wikipedia

Koyaanisqatsi

marcus • January 28th, 2008

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Still/Silent#03 by Antonis Anissegos & Erika Matsunami

vera • October 15th, 2007

An ambisonic sound and video installation by the two Berlin based artists Erika Matsunami and Antonis Anissegos, who present their work on SENDUNG.net Platform for Experimental Video and Live Visuals, which we run since summer 2006. Visit Erika´s profile on SENDUNG.net.

Cityports

vera • September 26th, 2007

Layer001

vera • September 26th, 2007

DOT – xx+xy visuals

vera • September 18th, 2007

A beautiful performance project by the italian duo xx+xy visuals, Sladzana Bogeska and Giuseppe Pradella. The delicate sounds are by Ziv Jacob

The three will present DOT in the Audiovisual Performance program of the 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival which Marcus and me were proud to co-curate. The 2007 program of the festival will be published soon – i´ll keep you posted.

An Introduction to "The Ambient Cookbook"

marcus • May 23rd, 2007

CLASSIC AMBIENT RECORDINGS: The 2001 Survey

marcus • May 23rd, 2007

from CLASSIC AMBIENT RECORDINGS: The 2001 Survey

Biosphere album name references

marcus • May 23rd, 2007

An interesting compilation to what the album names of ambient musician Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) refer.

All Biosphere names allude to the cold environments of space or ice, and their exploration:

• The Biosphere 2 project intended to explore the possible use of an artificial biosphere (a closed ecosystem) for space colonization. The Russian Biosphere 3 too. Both are detached, self-sufficient environments, like a space ship or a submarine.

• The North Pole explored by a submarine, which may be lost like a ship in space.

• Microgravity is the imperfect state of weightlessness in a space ship.

• The word “patashnik” is allegedly Russian cosmonaut slang for “a traveler” or “a goner”, a cosmonaut who didn’t return from a space mission because his security cable disengaged and he was lost in space.

• Substrata is, among others, a glaciology term (always plural) for the nature of a glacier’s bed. Phonetically, it’s also the Russian word for “frozen ground” (the permafrost).

• A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. It also refers to the death of Chris McCandless, a sort of “patashnik” who explored self-sufficient survival in a cirque in Alaska and lost himself.

• Shenzhou refers to the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft.

• Autour de la Lune (1870, Round the Moon) was Jules Verne’s followup to De la Terre à la Lune (1865, From the Earth to the Moon). The first one dealt with the Earth part of the story until the ship’s launching, from the outside. Autour de la Lune dealt from the inside of the ship with the launching and the actual space travel to and around the moon [2]. The album’s titles are French for “Translatory”, “Rotatory”, “Modified”, “Vibratory”, “Deviation”, “Rotary”, “Disappeared”, “Reverse”, “Falling”.

• A dropsonde is a device designed to be dropped at altitude to collect data as the device falls to the ground – in this context, it’s a sonde sent through space to another planet, it’s another “patashnik” explorator intended to be lost.