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Garth Knox/Brian O'Reilly: Spectral Strands - For Viola & Visuals
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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SpectraI Strands, with works for vioIa, both with and without electronics, interpreted by the most outstanding contemporary vioIa pIayer, combines with the literaIIy brilliant video material, a unique conjunction of sound, space and images. Garth Knox s coIlaboration with video artist Brian O ReiIly has resulted in an audiovisual programme where the audibIe and visibIe correspondences of Iight, shadow, texture and colour and their fragmentation offer new ways of perception. Although the rainbow is a famiIiar object, the discovery that ordinary white Iight can be split into a spectacular spectrum of bands of Iight remains a source of wonder. With the advent of spectraI music the same process was applied to sound, and the no less spectacular sound spectrums obtained with the help of the computer excited a whole generation of composers. The music, with its abstract but particuIarly emotional qualities and the video, in its pIay with barely recognisable forms and objects which dissoIve into patterns, coloured surfaces and rhythms estabIish in the seIected works consistent references to each other. lt is preciseIy in this special relationship that hearing extends itself into seeing and vice versa. |
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