Everything at KYTN is in some way about what you see and what you hear, and about trying to think of art that combines both of these senses in interesting ways. Along those lines, here’re some things to think about:

24 cuts/ second

It just so happens that one of the only places in modern society that is purpose built for the stimulation of just two of our senses (audition and vision) is the cinema.

‘The intellect, then, is a purely practical faculty, which has evolved for the purposes of action. What it does is to take the ceaseless, living flow of which the universe is composed and to make cuts across it, inserting artificial stops or gaps in what is really a continuous and indivisible process. The effect of these stops or gaps is to produce the impression of a world of apparently solid objects. These have no existence as separate objects in reality; they are, as it were, the design or pattern which our intellects have impressed on reality to serve our purposes.’ Cyril E M Joad ¹

Doesn’t he sound like he’s sketching out a metaphor for photography, and for film: 24 cuts per second producing the verisimilitude of motion, of life? So film often seems a good place for us to start with KYTN, from which we hope to expand out and to engage with things seen, heard, felt and encountered; to think of them as different cuts along the psycho-sensorial continuum ² – in the middle we find sound-image together, at either end hearing or seeing stripped of connections totally.

KYTN Tour was previewed by Alan Licht for The Wire which included an interview with Ken Jacobs here; it was also previewed by Mark Webber for the Guardian here. The event was reviewed by Helen Sloan fro the Bristol Evening Post here and by Esperanza Collado for Experimental Conversations here.