Two Films

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2012

Label: and/OAR

Sound Aspects Of Material Elements
Black & White, HD, 16:9 Aspect Ratio
Sound Aspects of Material Elements is a film that shows a specific approach to the artistic use of sound, covering a 3-year period (2006-2009) of the author's personal research and collaborations with a number of close colleagues. What we hear and see reveals how much our ability to listen with a creative ear, helps us re-interpret and build new relations to what surrounds us. Using sound as the primary signifier. The film documents in-situ processes of exploration and sonification of the landscape along with various material, objects and structures found there. All the sounds captured formed the basis for each shot emphasizing how the combinations of certain materials (metal, wood, glass) along with natural elements (water, wind fire), transforms our perception of even the most common everyday places or situations.

Mimema
Color, HD 16:9 Aspect Ratio
Mimema is a meditation on states of liminality, of being in stasis, drifting in-between above and below, night and day, inside and out. Mimema started out as a sound composition and grew into a series of images that reflected my desire to invert the world around me by capturing the 'real' and making it 'imaginary', Much like a mirror that reflects the shifting states of human cognition we encounter moment to moment. Mimema is the blur between what we sense and what we construct as understanding, appearing as much a body as a fluid or boundary as a state of dissolution.

Technical note: Some hardware and software playback systems may need to be adjusted to properly display the 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio of this DVD. To do this, go to the options menu for your TV monitor and DVD player.

Special thanks to: MoKS (Mooste, Estonia), Binauralmedia (Nodar, Portugal), Patrick McGinley, Evelyn Müürsepp, Maksims Shentelevs, Toomas Thetloff and Kevin Wienke.

© 2012 John Grzinich
℗ 2012 and/OAR