Watch artist Aura Satz's film in homage to pioneering British electronic music composer, Daphne Oram and her Oramics Machine.
Satz's film features Oram's custom built Oramics Machine, a visual synthesizer that uses drawn images to create sounds. After many years lost in storage the original Oramics Machine was restored and is now on show at London's Science Museum as part of their exhibition Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music that looks at electronic music from the beginnings of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (founded by Oram) onwards. The film also features the voice of Oram reading from a draft of her 1971 book An Individual Note Of Music, Sound And Electronics.
Oramics: Atlantis Anew was co-commissioned by The Science Museum, The London Consortium and Sound & Music.
Watch artist Aura Satz's film in homage to pioneering British electronic music composer, Daphne Oram and her Oramics Machine.
Satz's film features Oram's custom built Oramics Machine, a visual synthesizer that uses drawn images to create sounds. After many years lost in storage the original Oramics Machine was restored and is now on show at London's Science Museum as part of their exhibition Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music that looks at electronic music from the beginnings of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (founded by Oram) onwards. The film also features the voice of Oram reading from a draft of her 1971 book An Individual Note Of Music, Sound And Electronics.
Oramics: Atlantis Anew was co-commissioned by The Science Museum, The London Consortium and Sound & Music.
For the past four years Matmos have been re-enacting experiments into telepathy that were done in the 1960s. They were basic sensory deprivation set-ups in which the experimental subjects were unable to hear or see. The subjects were asked to recognise different shapes being transmitted to them from a table of graphic sigils. In Matmos's experiments, they tried to transmit the concept of their new album into the minds of their experimental subjects. For this performance, each collaborator recites different transcriptions of the psychic experiments that are played through their headphones.
The performance took place at London's Auto Italia space 19 May, 2011, organised in collaboration with Upset The Rhythm.
Filmed by Nathan Budzinski with help from Tim Ivison.
http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org
http://brainwashed.com/matmos
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
Video for "Violetta" by Jonny Redman who runs the Lovelockandload European Cult Movies website.
http://www.lovelockandload.net
http://www.modern-love.co.uk
http://boomkat.com
Flashpoint captures Surman leading a ten-piece ensemble, comprising some of the top players in the 60s British jazz scene. Playing with Surman on this set are trumpet player Kenny Wheeler, saxophonists Alan Skidmore, Mike Osborne and Ronnie Scott, trombonist Malcolm Griffiths, Harry Miller on bass, drummer Alan Jackson alongside Austrian musicians Fritz Pauer on piano and trombonist Erich Kleinschuster.
Recorded at the studios of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Hamburg, Germany in April 1969. The full program was originally broadcast on 25 May, 1969. Flashpoint CD/DVD is reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in The Wire 327 and is out on Cuneiform Records.
A visual and audio collaboration we did as part of the Lost Few collective: vimeo.com/40046340
sound was mixed and recorded live separate from the visuals, but based on the look and sound we've developed for our live shows together over the last little while.
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