The archive is often thought of as a forgotten repository of faded documents and dusty objects: it is an image of and from the past, a mundane picture whose identity is slowly transforming into a dynamic, digitally coloured notion of storage and memory. The archive, as an innovative concept, need not embody the past as … Continue reading ARGOS OPEN ARCHIVE
SURFACE TENSION An evening on… frictions Friday 19 March 2010, 20:00. Vooruit, Gent. Program produced by Courtisane as part of the Courtisane Festival 2010 (Gent, 17 – 21 March 2010) What happens when, before our eyes and ears, an event unfolds in time without simple representation, causality or possibility of identification? We are thrown back … Continue reading SURFACE TENSION
YES, it’s that time of the year again. The 2010 edition of the Courtisane festival will take place from March 17th till 21st, on several locations in Gent. As always, Courtisane 2010 will present a broad selection of recent Belgian and international film and video works, bringing together an exciting mix of up and coming … Continue reading COURTISANE festival 2010 // preview
“the reason I love movies is because I experience them as music” — Toru Takemitsu I’ve been intrigued by Toru Takemitsu’s film music ever since I saw Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964) for the first time. Takemitsu’s score relies almost entirely on a string ensemble, recorded, rearranged, pitched, distorted, alienated. The sounds, alternately … Continue reading Music as Skin Tones
“If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence” – John Oswald What came before: Part 1 Here are some more historical and contemporary examples of explicit musical appropriation, as a sort of illustration or extension of a little article I wrote for RUIS , about music and creativity in the era of intellectual property. … Continue reading If you can Hear it, you can Have it (2)