Evensong

Evensong is a piece of visual music; it is a song, sung by layers of landscape and the geometric light forms that emerge from them. All filmed for real, or ‘in-camera’ (the lights are filmed in the exact space that you see them, involving a long process of filming an LED light moving in precise geometric shapes, all moved individually by hand in situ using hand-built rigs such as wooden frames and bicycle wheels), it explores the notion of physical reality in relation to time and memory: The light objects are not fake, but they are still unreal – an altered memory of an event that happened – a movement in time seen in its entirety, like the beauty of hindsight.
Titled ‘Evensong’ not as a direct reference to its religious connotations, but rather a reflection of mood that the lights and landscape themselves suggest – the piece is somehow a melancholy celebration of dusk and stillness – an essence of something else – the ‘planned’ unforeseen, seeping out of the systematic process of filming. These objects are at once sound and light, real and unreal, kinetic and frozen, and the beauty that comes with them lies on the edge between these opposites.

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Dionisis Christofilogiannis
14 years ago
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mimmo spadoni
14 years ago
mimmo spadoni Artist
I love!
Ann  Zapa
15 years ago
Ann Zapa Journalist
Very interesting !
xx+xy visuals
15 years ago
xx+xy visuals Artist
very nice.
Bordos.Artworks
15 years ago
Delightful!
Dome
15 years ago
Dome Artist
You've really touched me with this piece. peaceful colors and intense sounds. loved it. thanks for sharing!
Richard Broomhall
15 years ago
haunting and meditative - made all the stronger by your production techniques!
Ramon Pyramus
15 years ago
Ramon Pyramus Artist
nice idea
Graziano Panfili
15 years ago
Good work!

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