Commissioned for the Unsound Festival 2010, Lichtspiel Mutation 1 is the first part of a planned series of audiovisual music drama pieces, closely resembling the silent film performances of cinema’s infancy.
The underlying idea behind the Lichtspiel Mutation series is to use old films in the ‘public domain’ as raw material, to be de- and reconstructed into new pieces of experimental music drama. The original film constitutes the seed of its own rebirth; themes, arch and narrative from the film are kept intact, as well as actual moving image material, but ‘remixed’ into a completely new form; a poetic visual/musical work that conceptually shares similarities with opera and/or ballet, but becomes something completely different altogether.
This first work in the series is based on Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 film “Man in the Attic”, a Jack the Ripper narrative. Lichtspiel Mutation 1 opened the Unsound Festival in Kraków, Poland in october 2010, featuring an expanded 45-piece Sinfonietta Cracovia…
Commissioned for the Unsound Festival 2010, Lichtspiel Mutation 1 is the first part of a planned series of audiovisual music drama pieces, closely resembling the silent film performances of cinema’s infancy.
The underlying idea behind the Lichtspiel Mutation series is to use old films in the ‘public domain’ as raw material, to be de- and reconstructed into new pieces of experimental music drama. The original film constitutes the seed of its own rebirth; themes, arch and narrative from the film are kept intact, as well as actual moving image material, but ‘remixed’ into a completely new form; a poetic visual/musical work that conceptually shares similarities with opera and/or ballet, but becomes something completely different altogether.
This first work in the series is based on Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 film “Man in the Attic”, a Jack the Ripper narrative. Lichtspiel Mutation 1 opened the Unsound Festival in Kraków, Poland in october 2010, featuring an expanded 45-piece Sinfonietta Cracovia…
music: Vladislav Delay
title: Lauma (excerpt - original length 8:29)
album: Vantaa
label: Raster Noton 2011
video: live by AGF made with jitter
Links:
http://vladislavdelay.com/
http://www.raster-noton.net/
http://antyegreie.com/
jitter patch developed with help from Sue.C and Ullrich
http://vimeo.com/suec
written by björk and damian taylor.
directed, produced and art directed by björk, inez and vinoodh, m/m paris and james merry.
moon app developed by max weisel
published by universal music publishing ltd.
® 2011 björk overseas ltd/one little indian records ltd.
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to pre-order biophilia: http://www.bjork.com.
to pre-order north america: http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/bjork.
biophilia is released on october 10th 2011 (october 11th north america).
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