Re: [microsound] filmsound

[thisout league <thisoutleague@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

recently a bunch of friends and I watch stan brakage's film dog star man 
with selektion records comp itineraire (gunter, tonuitti, wollschied...) and 
it was perfect. Often at time the visual editing would coincide with the 
sound editing. The film beckons silence, and this compilation installs much 
of those needs. It is great. We have often wanted to explore other films 
this way, intevening on them but something just haven't happen.
also recently I saw a really great sonoric interpretation of the passion of 
joan of arc perfomed by swiss electro acoustic musician tomaz grom. he 
played a double bass through a four channel looping device/sampler. it was 
amazing, he really knew the film.
there is also, maybe unfamiliar to many europeans -a chicago based sound 
track group called the boxhead ensemble. they perform live to the beatiful 
documentary film -dutch harbour: where the sea breaks its back. The group 
has taken many forms and included some very prestigous musicans like jim 
o'rourke, will oldam, david grubbs... their soundtracks are very emotive and 
often quite simple. The music is often based on string instruments, like 
guitar, cello, and violin with minimal drone instruments like the 
harmonium... adding texture. there are I think three different releases 
which doucment three different perfomance tours and all of them are 
romantically persuasive. well worth looking into.
I think knowing a film is fairly important if a musician decides to play or 
add a soundtrack, but I am wondering and am interested in the effect of not 
knowing the film and improvising the image/sound relationship. any comments?
a.dll





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