A WOMAN FROM THE PAST, MUCH LOVED.
16mm black & white film frames from the distant past fondly remembered and seen through a microscope connected to the computer.software
A poem about software and other neologisms. The letters of each word appear in a randomised sequence on screen.MUSIC BOX
Time code unfolds as a music box plays an 18th century military tune.BREATH DANCE
Breathing out and in, walking forwards then backwards takes on a dance-like aspect beside a temporary maze placed in Trafalgar Square, London. Pigeons, dandelion seeds and fountain also have a part to play.Times New Român
Graffiti in Bucharest, RomaniaDANCE 0 - 19
Both audio channels are represented visually as integer numbers
corresponding to the amplitude of the soundtrack, music from the
island of Bali: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan / Gamelan of the Love God.simple simple simple
A poem in homage to Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell. The last paragraph of Alice in Wonderland is rearranged word by word, with the words left over as a title. Text and sound plays against a manuscript in Carroll’s own hand. At the foot of the page is one of his photographs of Alice.BUS STOP version 2010
The sky is nice. / I negotiate / with its gauzy clouds on blue / for an immediate bus. / Remarkable that years / of my bad temper at / missed buses ( for example ) / is absorbed by these streets / and has no effect / on the blamelessness of the blue sky / or its little wings of cloud.
The framing of the image, clouds in a blue sky, changes with the loudness of the soundtrack, a composition made entirely of elements from the spoken poem.FOUNTAIN (ROOMS)
Children get cool playing inside a famous water sculpture on London’s Southbank this summer.RETRO DISK CHUNTER
Files are copied then deleted from one of the 3.5” floppy disks that have almost disappeared into our past. The soundtrack is the unmistakeable chunter and the image is a graphic representation of it.NOT YOU AGAIN !
Joyful self-hate in the recent snow.LAUNDRY
A zoom away from a wall marked by past bullets to clothes drying above
a courtyard, an unseen church bell strikes.DANCING MAN ( ISMAILIA )
A dancing man in Ismailia shows how it’s done !VENUS, SEPARATED
A look at colour separation, using the face of Botticelli’s Venus. Colour planes are separated and then merged to re-create the original image.DIE NEBENSONNEN
The mysterious love poem by Wilhelm Müller from Schubert’s Winterreise
provides the audio amplitude samples used to draw the waveform.FOOTWORK
Elaborate footwork with split second timing from performers in Trafalgar Square, London.TIME CODE
A sixty second countdown to zero replacing numbers with symbols.THE CRYING OF THE FOREST
Traditional music from Bulgaria is the starting point for a study in time and memory. The layered voices in The crying of the forest are accompanied by a sequence of layered visual images that partly reveal and partly obscure each other.DOMINANT CULTURE
Sequences of frames, sampled from a Big Brother broadcast on Channel 4 television, are repeated three times each in rhythmic succession. Nothing is slowed down or speeded up, but movement becomes unreal and fractured, parts of spoken words tumble out into a new stream of image and sound, and “reality television” begins to look like Pop Art.SF
“SF“, not as in Science Fiction - but Svenska Filmindustri who were instrumental in making “The Seventh Seal”, a film by Ingmar Bergman.
When I first saw this film, a game of chess played by the personification
of death seemed strangely odd to me, not so now some 50 years later.THIS IS NOT A LANDSCAPE…
A photograph of deer in Richmond Park, London.
