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Small Room Tango 

(2003-07) 

is an experiment in videomusical technique by Gabriel Shalom using nothing but the synchronous sounds and images captured in a piano practice room.

Intended merely as a proof of concept of some ideas I had back in the winter of 2003, this piece went on to be featured in the Best of Optronica, Best of Cologne OFF and numerous other short film and video festivals. It was finally published on DVD by Raum für Projektion in 2007 as part of Loop Pool On Ice, commissioned by the 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

 

"Anyone who has attempted this kind of video-sampling-whilst-letting-the-audio-determine-the-structure will know just how extremely bloody difficult & fiddly it all is. Hats off big time, then, to Gabriel Shalom, who not only makes it look natural & easy but even squeezes poetry from it." (Michael Szpakowski, co-curator of the DVblog)

 

Source: Gabriel Shalom on Vimeo

 

 

Small Room Tango, jazz, editing, Video Art

Reading

Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film 1910-1975 (1979) is a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in London from 3 May until 17 June 1979 on rare, essential and controversial avant-garde film history.

Notation. Calculation and Form in the Arts (2008) is a comprehensive catalogue (in German) edited by Dieter Appelt, Hubertus von Amelunxen and Peter Weibel which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the ZKM | Karlsruhe. (ZKM)

VJam Theory: Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance (2008) presents the major concerns of practitioners and theorists of realtime media under the categories of performance, performer and interactors, audiences and participators. The volume is experimental in its attempt to produce a collective theoretical text with a focus on a new criticality based on practitioner/ artist theory in which artist/ practitioners utilise theoretical models to debate their practices. (VJ Theory)

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