HAL HARTLEY THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

Director: Hal Hartley

Year: 2000

Time: 15 mins

Music: Louis Andriessen & Michel Van der Aa

Eye of Sound: The choreographical action hardly disguises the film's bottom line. Maths are today aiming at concepts of eternity and recurrence, a brutal disruption of our poorly built conceptions of linear time. An apple and a clock seem to signal this circularity. A dance-theatre combat between two students and a teacher over the meaning of an equation triggers the action, in contrast with Andriessen and Aa's beautiful, contemplative vocal score - as if movement within the cycle is but an illusion in the eyes of recurrence.

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ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI KWADRAT (1972)

Director: Zbigniew Rybczynski

Year: 1972

Time: 4 mins

Music:

Kazimierz Serocki

Warsztat Muzyczny 

Eye of Sound: Kwadrat ("Square") stands as a short but brilliant essay in shape management. Starting with pixel-like black and white silhouettes, the action gradually evolves to the depiction of a human being trapped inside a square-screen, and eventually returns to the original "kwadrat" form. The excellent angular music of Serocki, accompanied by the legendary Polish avantgarde ensemble Warsztat Muzyczny, renders Kwadrat all the more compelling and impressive.

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ELIANE RADIGUE PORTRAIT (2006)

Year: 2006

Time: 15 mins

Music: Eliane Radigue

Eye of Sound: Fourth in the IMA Portraits series, this short introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue. Radigue discusses methods of composition, the challenges and difficulties of live electronic music, as well as biographical episodes with Pierre Henry and her own goals in soundscape production and consumption. A lucid portrait of a dream manufacturer.

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SIDNEY PETERSONTHE PETRIFIED DOG (1949)

Director: Sidney Peterson

Year: 1949

Time: 18 mins

Music

Carl Austen

Leslie Turner

Hal Bronstein

Harry Reminick

Eye of Sound: An absolute classic of American avant-garde. Beautifully filmed, Petrified Dog is a surreal tale that transgresses the boundaries between day-to-day life and the realm of the absurd, merging them into a seamless whole. The brilliant concrète soundtrack walks side by side with the plotless picture, never joining hands with it. Tales of seduction, enmity and fear with a refined sense of humor and rhythm.

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HENRY COW LIVE IN VEVEY 1976

Year: 1976

Time: 75 mins

Music

Chris Cutler: drums

Dagmar Krause: vocals

Georgie Born: bass, cello

Tim Hodgkinson: organ, alto sax, clarinet

Lindsay Cooper: bassoon, oboe, recorder, piano, saxes

Fred Frith: guitar, tubular bells, piano, violin, xylophone 

Eye of Sound: Recorded for a swiss TV show called Kaleidospop in August 1976, this is said to be Henry Cow's only video recording. Working on the still vacant outskirts of avant-garde, jazz, rock, chamber music and what-not, Henry Cow added to this uncanny condensation the haunting and idiosyncratic vocals of Krause and surrealist lyrics, creating an unique sound universe which was never to be repeated. Floating with rich and colorful textures, bright as early dawn, yet intricately complex and sombre, the Sound of Cow remains a mystery after all these years.

HENRY COW VEVEY 1976

SUN RA MAGIC SUN BONUS

Eye of Sound: To conclude our first solar expedition, Unknown Worlds' astronauts were kind enough to provide the Magic Sun bonus features. Photos of the Heliocentric Rex and his Court are shown over unpublished recordings of Ra's galactic poetry and music. An earthly salute to our Pathways comrades, and a million eye thanks.

Movie offered by Yotte via Pathways and email.

Thanks, Yotte!

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SCOTT BARTLETT OFFON (1968)

Director: Scott Bartlett

Year: 1968

Time:  9 mins

Music: Manny Meyer

Eye of Sound: It all starts with an Eye. Inside the Eye, cognition emits superimposed loops of visual distortion. With a blink of an eye, chromatic error confounds outside information, culminating in a Rorschach pool of shapes. Meyer's prophetic soundtrack breathes the same change of airs. It starts with a proto-techno industrial pulse, ordering perceived reality, and culminates in an explosion of electronic noise. A revolutionary films, in so many ways.

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LILLIAN SCHWARTZ & KEN KNOWLTON PIXILLATION (1970)

Directors: Lillian F. Schwartz & Ken Knowlton

Year: 1970

Time: 4 mins

Music: Gershon Kingsley

Eye of Sound: Driven by the hectic moog music of Gershton Kingsley, pioneer of computer art Lillian Schwartz reveals in this short film a prophecy about the forthcoming electronic age and "information highway". Commissioned by AT&T, Pixillation discloses a world where microchip labyrinths and patterned synthetic noise dilute (in) human blood, and where complete organicity is no longer possible.

http://rapidshare.com/files/380219985/pixilliation.avi

CHRIS & COSEY EUROPEAN RENDEZ-VOUS (1984)

Director: John Lacey

Year: 1984

Time: 50 mins

Music: Chris & Cosey

Eye of Sound: Those were the days: when the future wasn't bright and dystopia was your daily bread; when apocalypse was just now and the winters cold as dead. Flower-power dreams withered, post-industrial gloom remained. Chris & Cosey's rendez-vous is one with an era, a new stage in the history of gray when synth was to reign supreme paving Europe's way to a new fantasy: the utopia of electric dreams.

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LICHTER PÉTER LIGHT SLEEP (2009)

Director: Lichter Péter

Year: 2009

Time: 6 mins

Music: Horváth Ádám Márton

Eye of Sound: Dream or nightmare, Light Sleep recaptures the fabric of the unconscious through decomposing film. Eros fades away as the delicate and sparse soundscapes of Márton drift into silence, allowing sleeping beauties to finally sleep. Memory regained, memory extinct; memory of what you crave and what you lost. 

http://rapidshare.com/files/379448827/lightsleep.mp4

GRUPPO D'IMPROVVISAZIONI NUOVA CONSONANZA (1967)

Director: Theo Gallehr

Year: 1967

Time: 47 mins

Music

Mario Bertoncini

Walter Branchi

Franco Evengelisti

John Heineman

Roland Kayn

Ennio Morricone

Ivan Vandor

Frederic Rzewski

Eye of Sound: Nuova Consonanza operated as a new music collective trying to bridge the gap between composition and performance, exploring sonic fields not too distant from those charted by AMM or MEV. Though they worked as an open project, this fascinating film documents the group's early experiments through their core-founders. Stage performances, backstage experiments, interviews (subtitled) and discussions pile up as if part of the same event. And this event is justifiably felt by the protagonists as a revolutionary moment, one which would lead them to unexplored sound territories. Not surprisingly, the music still sounds as fresh, inventive and untamed as it probably did when it was recorded.

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LUC FERRARI & OTOMO YOSHIHIDE SLOW LANDING (2008)

Director: Miyaoka Hideyuki

Year: 2008

Time: 11 mins

Music: Luc Ferrari & Otomo Yoshihide

Eye of Sound: Two supremely generous souls join forces against tedium in this recording of a 2003 Tokyo performance. Two generations, two fields of acceptance, two continents, but both masters in the art of transgressing musical boundaries. In the end, a brief commentary by Ferrari contextualizing the work of Otomo as "live concrète". More than just a live performance, a genealogical statement.

http://rapidshare.com/files/377546816/ferrariotomo.mpg

TOSHIO MATSUMOTO EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY (1975)

Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Year: 1975

Time: 8 mins

Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi

Eye of Sound: There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color.

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BRUCE CONNER LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1967)

Director: Bruce Conner

Year: 1967

Time: 13 mins

Music: Terry Riley

Eye of Sound: Expecting a nuclear disaster, Conner moved down to Mexico in 1962, where he spent his time looking for mushrooms with Timothy Leary. Later, Conner added footage of similar hunts in Frisco and in 1997 he decided to set it against a 1968 Terry Riley soundtrack. The result is a strange combination of typical 60s psychedelic editing with what might appear to be a road movie interested in exotic landscapes. A classic of american avant film.

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/377458549/mushrooms.mpg

JERRY ABRAMS EYETOON (1968)

Director: Jerry Abrams

Year: 1968

Time: 8 mins

Music: David Litwin

Eye of Sound: Guru of psychedelic shorts and love generation docs offers an expansive trip through his acid constellation. Shot in 16 mm and set against the fast-paced electronic music of Litwin, Eyetoon is a political experiment on chromatic burst, self-penetration and lysergic sex as a belligerent strategy against war. Good for evil, Eyetoon sings the body fractal.

movie offered by double avenue via e-mail. 

a million eyetoon thanks.

http://rapidshare.com/files/370142446/EYETOON.mkv

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO LIVE FROM THE JAZZ SHOWCASE 1.11.1981

Director: William J. Mahin

Year: 1981

Time: 52 mins

Music

Lester Bowie

Joseph Jarman

Roscoe Mitchell

Malachi Favors Maghostus

Famodou Don Moye

Eye of Sound: The Ensemble comes home for a percussive and enigmatic show. An eclectic display of sonic possibilities and hand-made virtuosity, ironing out all possible contradictions between languages. For the polyglot shall inherit the earth. 

movie offered by mrx via e-mail. a million eye thanks.

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PATRICK BOKANOWSKI LA PLAGE (1992)

Director: Patrick Bokanowski

Year: 1992

Time: 12 mins

Music: Michèle Bokanowski & Jean-Phillipe Rykiel

Eye of Sound: Secrets of the summer from an autumn perspective. Bereavment, magic and loss, or the true blueness of blue. Many reasons why one shouldn't make it till June.

http://rapidshare.com/files/377199076/plage.avi