Sally Jane Norman on Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:50:58 +0200 |
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Syndicate: echoes of acoustic space |
Dear Syndicate Hope some of you tuned into Sunday evening? Riga event. Felt very unworldly, flooding French countryside summer evening landscape with a little screen image, stretched as hopelessly big as possible across the different frames - the player, then the navigator frame, then the monitor. All that technology after coming back from a blackberry raid on vineyard borders. Emotional intensity inversely proportionate to image and sound definition. But however distorted and noisy image and sound were, on my feeble 28 kb link, the scaffolding of the telescope systematically appeared with the same formidable strength in the image field, and the grit of the sound was just as systematically redeemed by tokens of it being live - laughter, comments, that betrayed the ?zero/ nine ?loops and other hypnotic repeats. And whoever filmed those two kids who were watching the whole thing with eyes that exploded out of their faces was a genius. If those kids are brought up in this kind of environment, where military telescopes and planetary signals become materials for a technoartist? playpen, what the hell are they going to be inventing a couple of decades from now ? The mind boggles. Marko, Rasa, Raitis, Nina, Honor, Adam and all the others, chapeau. I? a fan. Acoustic space resonance, remanence. If this is syndicate - and for me, it still is, dammit, and always has been in its powerful moments - I? staying. Reckon you're right Eric. There's stuff happening here. Kia ora sjn -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de> to unsubscribe, write to <majordomo@eg-r.isp-eg.de>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate your@email.adress