MiddleSea - film by Zineb Sedira, sound by Mikhail Karikis

Mikhail Karikis creates soundtrack and sound installation which includes a vibrating staircase for Zineb Sedira's film MiddleSea at the Wapping Project in London.

Critic Cherry Smyth writes: The highly stylised camerawork renders twilight at the deck-rails incredibly seductive with its Minimalist tones and hard edges. The romance however is off-set by the uncanny soundtrack, composed by Mikhail Karikis, which uses intermittent sound effects to amplify the sense of being lost at sea. There is the itchy static of a radio trying to tune into a frequency in which language cant be understood, mingled with the rumbling of the engine, the trailing voices of a distant party who are never seen. The provenance of the sound is not identified, fading in and out with an eerie, unplaceable music that echoes the timelessness of sea travel and the loss of bearings. The figure stands beyond territory and identity and the soundtrack implies both the freedom and the terror of that.

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Music

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• mikhail
• karikis
• zineb
• Sedira
• MiddleSea
• Middle
• Sea
• soundtrack
• film
• wapping
• project