Briefly: What'll it be like?
Noise music for the eyes; a 6 screen 16mm projection performances of intense audio and visual stimulus.
In More Detail:
Who is this person?We already described Guy for his performance on Friday, go and check that out, (and maybe some other things on that day too. It's a festival, you're allowed to come for more than one day.) We've wanted to get Guy to KYTN for years, so now that we've got him, we're making the most of his time.
What's going on here?Here's how Guy explains Sound Cuts, "Black film stock is repeatedly cut and rejoined. The cuts are made with the angled blade of a splicer normally used for joining sound film. At each cut we see an angled flash of light followed by a thud of sound. The film combines rhythmic intervals from one cut per second to twenty-four cuts per second, spread across 6 projectors".
Why's it interesting?Here's a good quote from Guy again, which partly explains why we're interested in his films. "What links … the films is the physical correspondence between sound and image. In many of the films, sounds are produced directly by the images that we are seeing. The idea of ‘optical sound' may seem like a contradiction, but in the analogue medium of cine-film, perhaps surprisingly, sound and image are both carried in visual form on the same filmstrip.
Of course, this could all be very interesting but dull, if it were not for the fact that Guy takes this ‘accident of technology' as he puts it, and uses it to create beguiling, physical and often intense sensory experiences. With Sound Cuts, the experience is something like an examination of the temporal space in your brain, of how the mind tries to reconcile image and sound that are clearly joined, but separated by a fraction of a second.
What's not to love?
