In Sonic Lux the aural experience is as important as the visual experience in the search for the synesthetic explosion, for the sensory deluge of the spectator. The program begins with the immersion in a dreamscape of The Origin of Dreams and BLUEFILM2 to crossover to the furious awakening of Between Regularity and Irregularity; In 20 Hz, forms emerge creating a geomagnetic storm whose data are interpreted as visual and sound waves and the circularity will also be the motive in Samadhi, a mystical quest for meditative consciousness; Papillon d'amour unfolds as Rashomon by Kurosawa to propose an Extreme Rorschach Test; and Office Suite and Spacy will finally place us in front of an introspective experience regarding the limit, not so much insofar as the two spaces that will be explored, but rather our own perception.
José Manuel López, Curator of Sonic Lux
Takashi Makino
"Origin of the Dreams means experience from real world or our reality. I'm thinking about dream is collage of the our memory. In this fim, I tried to create same situation with dream and cinema, by only using nature materials".
Aaron Zeghers
A hibernation meditation created with the franken-milne strobe-o-scopic LED contact printer on 16mm.
Masahiro Tsutani
The filmmaker improvises and through a conversation with himself, he has a chaotic worldview evocative of the firing of nerve cells, clustering sounds of convulsiveness. Finely-detailed images filled with light are synced to sound. Nature creates the glow of light and the beauty of a shape lying between regularity and irregularity. Sounds and images with a granular texture. These things grasp the depths of the brain.
Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations.
Jordan Belson
Samadhi evokes the ecstatic state achieved by the meditator where individual consciousness merges with the Universal. Belson adds "It is primarily an abstract cinematic work of art inspired by Yoga and Buddhism. Not a description or explanation of Samadhi".
Nicolas Provost
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
Robert Todd
This officescape reflects the rhythms of my mind from daybreak-to-break: light journeys within and without my office, in 3 movements: InnerClose with Shadow and Steam (Andante Up, Down, and Sidelong), Exterior Fantasy from Dawn to Break (Allegro in moving colors), and Hallway (the End of that World).
Takashi Ito
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.