Re: [microsound] Tony Conrad's The Flicker

[Audiosaloon@xxxxxx]

Hi,

If there's a screening of Peter Kubelkas "Arnulf Rainer" you should see it....
It's made out of black and clear frames (it flickers...), the sound is weather white noise or it's silent. It's made 1960 and you should find a lot about it in the net...

for example Fred Camper wrote about it:

Arnulf Rainer (1960)

Arnulf Rainer?s images are the most ´reducedª of all ? this is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 seconds and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker effect is produced, which is as close as Kubelka can come to the somewhat more rapid flicker of motion-picture projection; during the long sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely which form it will take. But Arnulf Rainer is not merely a study of film rhythm and flicker. In reducing the cinema to its essentials, Kubelka has not stripped it of meaning, but rather made an object which has qualities so general as to suggest a variety of possible meanings, each touching on some essential aspect of existence.

(Fred Camper)


thanks, Bernhard



microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 15.12.03 22:43:52:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just saw Tony Conrad's experimental film The Flicker, and was interested if anyone knew how the sound was made. I wonder if this has been discussed before?
>
> For those who don't know, it's a film made up entirely of black and white frames in various strobe patterns which can potentially cause epileptic seizures (didn't happen in the screening I was at, but several people had to leave). The sound seems like it might be using pulse generators...it sounds analogous to the visual strobe effect.
>
> I found an mp3 of the sound here:
> http://www.ubu.com/sound/conrad.html
>
> I highly recommend it.
>
> thanks,Phil Curtis
>

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