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| In The Present Moment 1=12 and 12= ∞ (2001) Super-8 film, digital video [still] |
In a short sequence of Super-8 film made in New York City's Times Square,
images of intermittently flashing light bulbs on the exterior of a film
theatre never seem to settle in any one frame. Instead they seem to
inhabit multiple areas, bleeding across numerous still images on the
negative roll. Again this recalls retinal traces, flashback images, anticipation, syncopation and alignment.
The film loop is accompanied with a composition of original music that explores micro-tonal intervals and using the terminology of digital
film editing as an influence on a score. The music is constructed and scored using a single source:
a vocal hum of middle-C. This source note is designated a value of 100%
and a musical framework is built up from this point. By simply altering
speed values - i.e. C#=106.5%, etc. - a full, melodic sound
accompaniment is drawn up. The variances within the original source note
are heightened and exaggerated, lending the result of this rather
arcane and mechanistic method of music-making a strangely moving and evocative quality.
