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ryad // metempsychosis 

by Turkish drummer, producer and visual artist Volkan Ergen.

First dryad: Burçin Elmas, Altosax "JaZzJuLİEt"

Second dryad: Suzan D. Polat, dance

Third dryad: Ezo Ergen, born

Arboreal: Volkan Ergen

 

Video, sound, color grading by Volkan Ergen.

 

 

ryad // metempsychosis, jazz, choreography, body, Film

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Digital Harmony (1980): On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art – John Whitney, Sr. wanted to create a dialog between "the voices of light and tone." All of his early experiments in film and the development of sound techniques lead toward this end. He felt that music was an integral part of the visual experience; the combination had a long history in man's primitive development and was part of the essence of life. His theories On the complementarity of Music and Visual Art were explained in his book, Digital Harmony, published by McGraw-Hill in 1980. (Paradise 2012)

Rewind, Play, Fast Forward (2010) – The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video by Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) brings together different disciplines as well as journalists, museum curators and gallery owners in order to take a discussion of the past and present of the music video as an opportunity to reflect upon suited methodological approaches to this genre and to allow a glimpse into its future. (transcript Verlag)

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (1994) by French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. (Colombia University Press)

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Composition in Blue (1935) - original title: Komposition in Blau. Surfaces dominate in the abstract animated film Composition in Blue by Oskar Fischinger. Colorful geometric figures are set in rhythmic motion. The music from Otto Nicolai's The Merry Women of Windsor is impressively visualized through a blending of form and color. (William Moritz: "Oskar Fischinger", in: Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Optische Poesie. Oskar Fischinger Leben und Werk, Kinematograph Nr. 9, 1993, p. 42)

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2009) staged by theatrical group La Fura del Baus. Götterdämmerung forms the forth and final part in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle. The impressive surroundings of Valencia's Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia provide a suitable backdrop, as this version of Wagner's piece unfolds. (Amazon)

Visual Kitchen explores the semantics of live AV performance and video art from a background of VJ’ing and music video production. As designers of moving images, VK adapts any kind of (non-)narrative structure into dazzling trips of visual flux, combining rigorously structured loops with soft- or hardware-generated chaos. The output is very diverse and versatile, from analogue photographic to digital minimalism, exploring the parameters of the canvas. (Visual Kitchen)

Kasumi is a video/sound artist whose interdisciplinary activities have included professional activities as a concert musician, exhibiting painter, published writer, theatrical designer, and film producer. Kasumi is one of the leading innovators of a new art form synthesizing film, sound and video in live performance. She has won global acclaim for her work in venues worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to collaborations with Grandmaster Flash, DJ Spooky and Modeselektor. (Kasumi)

Daft Punk: Around the World (1997) by Michel Gondry features robots walking around in a circle on a platform (which represents a vinyl record), tall athletes wearing tracksuits with small prosthetic heads walking up and down stairs, women dressed like synchronized swimmers moving up and down another set of stairs, skeletons dancing in the center of the record, and mummies dancing in time with the song's drum pattern. (Wikipedia)