Optofonica DVD on LINE

I'm thinking about buying it. The trailer looks really interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xac9Rnk9G-A

It's limited to 1000 copies so I'm thinking it would be wise to get it while it's available

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=239783

some shit about it:

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Instead of creating mere objects of aesthetic seduction, a new form of art is surfacing that invites audiences to transcend the limits of habitual perception. It seeks to shift the observer's attention from the physical objects that stimulate perception to the act of perception itself.

 

"Concurrent with the cognitive space of apprehended sounds, a separate view can be opened onto the physical life of waves."

(R. Ganchrow, Hear and There: Notes on the Materiality of Sound)

 

The immersive environments presented here by 42 artists from 13 different countries incite a unique multi-sensory awareness of both physical and mental (imagined) space. Some works directly examine the slipping contours of kinetic phenomena, involving magnetism (Kanta Horio), fluid dynamics (Skoltz Kolgen), or acoustic levitation (Domnitch/Gelfand/Chartier). Others have invented an impossible phantom spatiality, stemming, for example, from brain wave interference (Ulf Langheinrich) or stereoscopically rendered interferential video signals (Bas van Koolwijk). All the pieces entail a search for hidden, transitory spaces that crosswire the perceptual spectrum. After being presented worldwide (Sonic Acts, Elektra, Sonar, Nemo...) in the form of Surround Cinema as well as in the Optofonica Capsule (a tactile audio installation), this body of work, spanning 3 years, has been painstakingly archived, preserving as much as possible the intricacies of each composition.

 

EVELINA DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND + RICHARD CHARTIER / sonolevitation / 6.28

TELCOSYSTEMS / scapetime / 7:57

RYAN JEFFERY + SCANNER / waterfall / 6:53

RYOICHI KUROKAWA / vento ignis / 4:07

KANTA HORIO / em#3 / 7:51

JASON GRAHAM + KIM CASCONE + TEZ / raindrops #7 / 6:01

SKOLTZ_KOLGEN / ether / 3:51

KAFFE MATTHEWS / mount magnet / 6:37

MARCEL WIERCKX / black noise white silence / 3:00

MARTIJN VAN BOVEN / a thousand scapes / 10:01

OTOLAB / animula / 8:00

RAYXXXX / pulse / 7:20

LIA + @C / study #40 / 9:47

BAS VAN KOOLWIJK / fdbck/av 3d / 6:02

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER / rhythm exp. / 5:14

DOMENICO SCIAJNO / sgf / 7:02

PE LANG + ZIMOUN / untitled sound objects / 0:47

ULF LANGHEINRICH / it would have been fantastic / 5:05

QUAYOLA + MIRA CALIX + AUTOBAM / strata #2 / 7:12

SKIF++ / skif++ / 4:52

DAVID MUTH & HIAZ / counterclockwise / 2:04

KURT HENTSCHLAGER / xscape / 7:01

NATALIE BEWERNITZ + MAREK GOLDOWSKI / life at the witch trails / 10:06

total time: 2:23:18

i have mark fell's "attack on silence" and really regret not getting "camera lucida" whilst it was in print, so i'd agree that a) this looks very good and b) snatch it up while you can

I just ordered it.

  On 3/18/2010 at 1:11 AM, fox said:

i have mark fell's "attack on silence" and really regret not getting "camera lucida" whilst it was in print, so i'd agree that a) this looks very good and b) snatch it up while you can

this one? http://www.discogs.com/Evelina-Domnitch--Dmitry-Gelfand--Various-Camera-Lucida/release/972207

there are 6 for sale, at affordable prices

Quite a lot of it is quite academic and experimental, so is quite heavy going in a lot of places. But it's probably worth it just for the amazing Mira Calix collaboration piece! (actually I quite like the one where jiggling metal pieces seem to dance and fight with one another with the oscillating frequency)