Scritto da:Mauro @ 2008.11.08.00.01.31 — Archiviato in:
Multimedia,
Videoarte
An evolving, resonating journey through splintering landscapes and mysterious characters. Abstractions and forms are reverberated in fragile soundscapes of chaotic planes and unsettling arrhythmic patterns. Is it film or an improvised VJ cut-up? Is it visualized music feeding back into images, or images generating music? SYNKEN pushes the limitations and restrictions of genres. Synchronized sinking as SYNKEN is Transforma and O.S.T.’s collective creative experience.
With a mix of abstract images, graphic animation, digital image effects and complex film sequences, SYNKEN creates a fantastically spaced out, darkly romantic image-world. Forests filled with distorted organic forms are contrasted against an architectural abyss, as strange and fantastic characters try to make sense of their surroundings. A mysterious vagabond works as a medium between these parallel worlds, transporting artefacts that become recurring symbols in the dual system and means of communication between the creatures which inhabit them.
Produced in parallel to the images, O.S.T.‘s arrhythmic crackling electronic 5.1 surround soundtrack bathes the images in an eerily hypnotic flow. As sound and image merge and fall apart again over time, they form a synergy that opens up subtle leads which can never be read only as linear. As plot fragments refract and reoccur, SYNKEN continuously confronts the viewer with a modular narrative that can be potentially combined to create any number of interpretations. in the live performance version, Transforma and O.S.T.‘s real-time decisions will use this potential to develop further one-off versions of SYNKEN.
O.S.T.
American electronic music maverick O.S.T. has been releasing and performing since 1992 as O.S.T., rook vallade, Dalglish, and other aliases. After more than 10 albums and numerous singles under his various monikers, Douglas remains well outside the established parameters of electronic music. His work is a malevolent mutation of techno into arrhythmic patterns, interwoven digital textures, and amorphous melodies. He is known, somewhat notoriously, as an artist who is unrelentingly true to what creativity, emotion, and passion are to music. In 2003 O.S.T. was invited by Autechre to play at their curated All Tomorrows Parties. After performing around Europe he decided to settle in Berlin where after a few years of coming down, he uses this project to start again.
Transforma
Berlin video artist collective Transforma (Baris Hasselbach, Luke Bennett and Simon Krahl) combine the momentum of VJ improvisation with the power of highly composed imagery and narrative. Transforma started producing experimental video art in 2001 and have been taking their imageworld and production processes to higher levels of absurdity ever since. They have worked on promos, concert video and live cinema approaches, in collaboration with Apparat and Funkstörung among others, and have VJed in clubs in Berlin and around Europe.
SYNKEN site (with trailers)
Listen to or download the music
Transforma (www.transforma.de) / O.S.T. (www.amhain.net)
www.cimatics.com / www.shitkatapult.com / www.visualkitchen.org
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