Friday 15 January 2010

Parallel doors

At the same time, the initial video is the pretext for another line of thought, a new work, a new interpretation of a visual content. In the same way it is a translation, a transformation of the initial meaning into a different text. However, the initial meaning or the initial reason remains the same. If we want we can deconstruct the whole process and return into the first instance without it being changed. What has changed with certainty is the way that we now perceive that first instance, being in this case the 2 many djs' dj set. Now we get to see new things that can outcome from it in the same way that we understand what are the possible outcomes of eggs.
So, the step taken as a parallel work was to get 24 people to see the video without sound. In a very strong way, the sound is a great deal of the context of that video, meaning that this way the video was decontextualized. The 24 subjects were here asked to interpret that dance, taking into account their own notions of dancing, Sound, Music and Rhythm. Then they were to make their imaginary version of the soundtrack of what they were looking at in real time, expressing themselves in any way the could think of.
At this point this is raising issues as music culture, personal Sound, Music and Rhythm notions, individual memory, relation of Sound, Music and Rhythm and dance, the capability of expressing all these as one streaming thought and the ability of dealing with that in an exposing environment where a camera is recording.
This moment in the process ended up with about 3h of genuine footage. An amazing factor within the footage that was purposely used is the vast range of nationalities. 4 continents are represented in this, which is quite amazing and in great use for the purpose of this work.

After this point the ball rolled back to my hands. I had to sample these three hours into short clips. Got over 200 samples. Here are some.

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