La Jetée [1962/2016] - Darkroom Edition

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Release Date: 2018-06-01

Label: Ondes Positives Recordings

Darkroom Edition
Edition of 25 [6x 'Artists Copies' were also produced for the musicians involved]

Includes:
• Vintage metal film canister with embedded USB storage device
• High quality .WAV and .MP3 format audio files
• 35mm film reel containing photo-strip
• Film canister and reel both housed in custom 35mm film boxes
• Three 10" x 8" matte photo prints in acid-free archival envelope, created by LARVA using a 'Print-Through' re-photographic technique.
• Information sheet printed on heavyweight architect paper
• USB extension cable
• Links to additional audio/visual content
• Packaged in printed storage tube
• Hand-stamped/numbered edition of 25 copies

The second release from Ondes Positive’s in-house band LARVA.

Recorded live at Flatpack Film Festival [UK] in April 2016, LARVA's re-scoring of Chris Marker's experimental 1962 Science Fiction short sets out to re-frame the film from existential romance to abyssal fugue.

The soundtrack is scored, in part, for a new instrument, created specifically for this project: The Glass Chroma-Harp. Based on the Glass Armonica, a classical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th Century, the Chroma-Harp uses glass, water and analogue tape delay to create a unique multi-timbral sound which is in keeping with the film's disturbing fatalism.
The Chroma-Harp is intonated in a colour sequence rather than with scaled notes, and the player must use intuition and improvisation in their approach.

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