Sónar 2008 | SonarCinema, electronic music and image
SonarCinema, which is projected every day in the CCCB Auditorium, presents an extensive selection of clips, short films, documentaries, digital works and footage related to electronic music. The programme, which has 14 menus, provides the opportunity to take a look at the vitality of a scene in constant creative flux.
SonarCinema includes a wide variety of options: from the premiere of the documentary Part of the Weekend Never Dies about the Soulwax world tour with an introduction by the Dewaele brothers (Saturday 21 at 4:15pm, and they will be performing that night in the Fira Gran Via area), to the projection of the new dismantling of the virtual world In The Name of Kernel by the Catalan artist Joan Leandre.
From Japan, the director Catchpulse has created an original and surprising image for the music from the Osaka scene (the Osaka Invasion Showcase will be on Saturday in Sónar by Day), while from Portland, Oregon, E*Rock gives us his striking animation for the label Audiodregs.
What the Future Sounded Like is a fascinating portrait of the British company EMS, true pioneers in the prehistory of electronic music, and Dub Echoes tells the story of how a mix-up in a studio in Kingston, Jamaica, in the early seventies, led not only to Dub but also to a way of using the recording studio as an instrument.
The programme has a space attached to the exhibition El Cine Más Allá Del Cine [Film Beyond Film]: a compilation of short films about the recycling and manipulation of film images with works by People Like Us and Matthias Müller, among others. We also allocate a monograph to the musician Martin Siewert, whose soundtracks are a key contribution to the Vienna scene. It is worth taking a look at the impressive portrait of the composer Cornelius Cardew, which is complemented by the crazy televisual approach of the Danish musician Gaeoudjiparl in Morte Aux Vaches Ekstra.
SonarCinema
Program:
What the Future Sounded Like (30 min) Dir: Matthew Bate In the early 60s, a group of eccentric pioneering electronic musicians founded EMS (Electronic Music Studios) in London and changed the course of contemporary music for ever. In the depths of their sound laboratory, they created music based on technology at a time when existing technology barely allowed such a conceptual leap. This documentary by Matthew Bate uses experimental techniques, animation, audiovisual collages and archival footage seen here for the first time ever.
Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (45 min) Dir: Luke Fowler Prolific, controversial, political, radical, iconoclastic... Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was one of the most interesting and influential composers in the second half of the 20th Century. This documentary captures the personality, work, and mood of the legendary British composer through interviews, archival material, borrowed fragments from the film ‘Journey to the North Pole’ by Hanne Boenisch and highly personal cinematic effects.
Part of the Weekend Never Dies (60 min) Dir: Soulwax & Saam Farahmand In 2006, director Saam Farahmand took to the road as part of the Dewalee brothers’ entourage to capture the Soulwax world tour up-close in all its detail. ‘Part of…’ doesn’t just capture the chaos and the hooligan spirit that has defined the Belgian duo since their earliest forays into the music world – the video is also a sign of the times that reflects the vitality of a scene in which the energy of electronica is mixed with good old rock and roll. *Soulwax will be performing on Saturday 21 June at 1.30am at SonarClub of Fira Gran Via (M2)
Part of The Weekend Never Dies
Author Clips: Audio Dregs (45 min) Eric Mast spreads his creativity through numerous, complementary disciplines: he works as a producer, illustrator and visual artist, as well as editing the magazine Thumb, and imbues all his activities with his own post-pop aesthetic and working method to produce a feverish kaleidoscope of constantly clashing colours, figures, flash animation and hand-made drawings. This monograph looks at his most interesting work as a video clip maker with the Wyld File Crew and their colourful animation for tracks by Aids Wolf, Menomena, O Lamm, Neon Hunk and Ratatat.
Soundtrack: Martin Siewert (40 min) Siewert is key piece in the Austrian capital’s experimental scene, with his acoustic and also electronic improvisations. His name is linked to a seemingly endless list of stable groups and to sporadic collaborations with numerous sound artists. This program takes a look at this aspect of his work as composer on short films by some of the most representative names working in Central European visual arts.
Author Clips: Osaka (30 min) This selection of clips from Osaka, one of Japan’s main hotbeds of creativity, takes viewers though an underworld of frenzied, hilarious collage. Cut-up frames that give form to the subversive beats of up-and-coming names on Japan’s breakcore scene. *Osaka Invasion Showcase will be performing on Saturday 21 June from 5.30pm at SonarComplex
Dub Echoes (70 min) Dir: Bruno Natal Few scenes have been as profoundly influential on the soundtrack of our times as Jamaican music culture. This feature film tracks this pollination process by looking at the history of dub combined with first-person accounts by producers from the world of reggae and electronica today. A fascinating journey that explores the foundations of one of the most crucial sounds in the history of 20th century music, which continues to make itself felt in our daily audio diet.
Dub Echoes
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra DIEM (50 min) Dir: Gæoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen Kristian Vester, more commonly known as Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, is one of the most intriguing artists to emerge from electronica in many years. In a hilarious monologue, Vester talks about some pressing current and possible future issues in electronic music brandishing his caustic sense of humour and analytical skill in a zanny TV show that is part-presentation, part-lesson and part-improvised performance.
Cinematerial (40 min) A program of three works based on the idea of the appropriation and manipulation of existing material – silent films, educational videos, Hollywood classics and ads. Editing is the key tool used to distort (or create) the found footage and give it a new shape and meaning.
In The Name of Kernel: Song of the Iron Bird (20 min) Dir: Joan Leandre Barcelona’s Joan Leandre has been producing some of the most recognisable and personal work in Catalonia’s digital arts scene since the late 90’s. ‘In the Name of Kernel’ is a compilation of several captures of his extreme simulation games. Light years from the obsessive precision and visual preciousness of conventional simulators, these scenes offer a totally different alteranate reality that is immersive, aggressive and out of control.
Author Clips: Choreographies (30 min) Bat for Lashes, RJD2, Kid Acne, Buraka Som Sistema, Goldfrapp, Justice, Trans Am, Bomb the Bass.
Kuvaputki + Hazmazk (40 min) Dir: Edward Quist. Music: Pan Sonic. Editor: Michael Wargula. Dir: Edward Quist. Music: Del Marquis & Edward Quist. Editor: Michael Wargula. Pan Sonic’s first-ever DVD release is the result of a collaboration between the Finnish duo and US digital artist Edward Quist, who produced complex cathode ray images to accompany Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio’s abstract electronic sound world. The surprising simplicity and elegance of the black and white images is a perfect fit for Pan Sonic’s angular rhythms and abrasive frequencies. *Pan Sonic will be performing on Thursday 19 at 8.30pm at SonarHall
Animal Charm (40 min) Jim Fetterly and Rich Bott’s mix of savage surrealism and appropiationism is an uncanny and hilarious ode to television culture. A sarcastic but sincere tribute to interminable nights of infomercials and tacky video clips, to the glut of cable TV and the squandering of corporate advertising, it erects an ironic monument to the semantics and visual and communicative resorts of the medium.
De Paso (45 min) A compilation of three short films that grapple with movement in different ways, from different perspectives and styles. Stadmusik’s ‘Please Stand Back’ looks at and listens to a city’s architecture and structure as it’s essential spatial element and driving force, while ‘fourtythousand3hundred20 memories’, by AGF and SueC, recounts an impossible journey that seems to start on a train but turns out to be a purely poetic excursion. Finally, ‘Kaamos Trilogy’ by Mia Makela (aka SOLU) is a reflection on light, or its absence.
To see the showing times of the screenings click here.
Auditorium-CCCB. From 12am to 10pm.
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