Live Archive Volume 6: A shimmering improvisatory sound environment, where harmonics blur into waves of pure abstraction, performed live with multiple projections of films by Paul Clipson.
Paul's films are difficult to describe. They shimmer and vibrate. They are both
abstract and figurative at the same time. The camera moves slowly while the
light moves quickly, burning and flashing brightly at times from the saturated
grainy/smooth surface, to remind the viewer that the film itself has become the
canvas, as the reflections of projected light act directly upon the retina.
During this performance I ventured into the chaotic realm of live feedback
loops, using delays and modulation to build up clouds of re-circulating texture.
This technique creates sonic structures that resemble slow arcs, growing and
collapsing like organisms, or like melting glaciers. An implied harmonic cloud
hovers at the edge of dissonance, much like the reflecting beams of color
glancing from the films' vibrating multiple projections. The air is energized by
the resonance of sound and light.
m3u audio streams (if the flash player above doesn't work for you): [hifilofi] Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file)
[hifilofi] 01-Lumin Part 1 (9:13)
[hifilofi] 02-Lumin Part 2 (5:21)
[hifilofi] 03-Lumin Part 3 (8:21)
[hifilofi] 04-Lumin Part 4 (10:35)
[hifilofi] 05-Lumin Part 5 (7:31)
[hifilofi] 06-Lumin Part 6 (15:26)
[hifilofi] 07-Lumin Part 7 (7:51)