| Sinopsis: |
Arts of forgetting is a six-minute music video for experimental improviser Mary Oliver. The soundtrack features Oliver's violin and voice interacting with real-time digital sampling. The music varies, moving rapidly from thinner textures that feature the live violin to more layered soundscapes created by the samplers. The video features oliver as its central figure, placed within several studio settings which required complex set-building and lighting: a forest, a canyon, a large cocoon, a bridge, a victorian laboratory, a rowboat on the water. Each of these settings acquires a dreamlike character through strange composition, camera movement, lighting and surprising props. Because the music emphasizes transition and transformation rather than formal landmarks and clear sectional divisions, the image makes use of compositing, dissolves, fades and slow motion. The video aims at subtle connections between music and image; one goal is to bring new improvised music to a wider audience. |