Semiconductor - Sonic Inc. (part 2)

Semiconductor makes Sound Films, which reveal our physical world in flux: cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Central to these works is the role of sound, which becomes synonymous with the image as one gets created, controlled and deciphered by the other. Tonight they will perform a series of works using a combination of their own real-time animation software, Sonic Inc. and image responsive live soundtracks.
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:: Cinema - 11/03/08 ::

The majority of cinema as a form seeks to:

1. capture ideas and impressions of the spaces and places we inhabit or
2. visualise those we can't.

The former of these, representation, has been more dominant throughout cinema's history. The lens has in effect become a means of capturing our 'reality', allowing us to store and later reproduce sights and sounds to be replayed as a substitute for personal memories.

With the arrival of computing and it's now widespread use within cinema we see the latter begin to take dominance. Cinema as representation is changing to cinema as simulation, creating an era more important than the transition from silent to sound or from black and white to colour. Cinema has the possibility to become a form without any necessarily inferred referent, it is known, quantifiable (pixels) and so can be modified, abstracted, constructed in numerous ways. It's method of production can be improved, changed or even reconceived allowing it's authors to work as never before. Cinema arrives at the end of an era with promise of a new one enabling it to become immersive, live, participative, interactive, navigable, recombinatory, distributed, networked, coded etc.

On March 11th 2008 Open Ear (http://openear.wordpress.com/) hosted an event curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) entitled Cinema presenting performances and experimental films on this theme.

Video by Sebastian Robinson.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cinema
• open
• ear
• performance
• art
• audio
• video
• semiconductor
• sonic
• inc
• film
• experimental