Some Late Turners
A growing colony of redundant CD-ROMs as high-wire pest controllers, inscribing light on an English urban allotment. Obsolete human remains - the conceit of cheap algorithms and knowledge-portals - are appropriated for a different cultural purpose. At loose in the iridescent, ruddy pastorale the discs dance acrobatically in melancholy digital defiance against their inevitable erosion. Filmed on the family plot in Chorlton, south Manchester. The film features a score composed by Coryn Smethurst, who captured sonic materials from the acoustic properties of the urban-agricultural location, using both conventional and unconventional microphones. The spectral qualities of the camcorder and spycam lenses are reflected in the timbral colourations and fluctuations of the processed sound. >> Clipviewer 2004 > Premiered at Soundcircus, Sonic Arts Network Conference, DeMontfort University, UK, with score mixed live over multi-speaker diffusion system by Coryn Smethurst; International Festival of Video and Multimedia, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria; L'Alternativa, 11th Independent Film Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania (CCCB), Barcelona; Purescreen #5: The Moon Will Save Our Ass, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, UK |
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