Director: Erkki Kurenniemi
Year: 1971
Time: 12 mins
Music: Erkki Kurenniemi
Eye of Sound: Recently rediscovered thanks to Mike Taanila's Dawn of Dimi documentary, Erkki Kurenniemi is a true visionary of the electronic age. His war games left no territory untouched: music, film, robotics, dance, philosophy, photography, artificial intelligence and what not. DIMI Ballet was conceived as a demonstration of his DIMI-O electronic performance device. This video controlled instrument pursues an ancient sound-eye dream: the direct translation of image into sound. To demonstrate DIMI-O's possibilities, an unidentified dancer moves along some kind of sensor to create a wash of analogue tones and colors.
What a great place you have created, thanks for sharing your
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andré
You're very kind, André. Thank you for you support, and hope to see you around.
ReplyDeleteI was really excited about this post, but there's no sound on the video!
ReplyDeleteHi, Sabrina.
ReplyDeleteYou should use VLC, an application that will read virtually every format properly.
Enjoy the film.
It works! What a amazing video. I wish we could find more on this guy, everything I've seen and heard from him blew my mind! Thank you for putting this up!
ReplyDeleteI do have plenty of stuff by Mr. Kurenniemi. Since you enjoyed this so much, I'll anticipate the posts that were planned for the future. Just wait a few days.
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beautiful! thanks again!
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