The video piece ISLAND PLAYBACK approaches the unseizable of the natural world surrounding us by deciphering the coastline of a small anonymous island in the Mediterranean sea as if it was a consciously encoded trace.
For this, photographs of the coastline taken from the air were fed into a virtual synthesiser and translated into a sound curve. The oscillations on film lead to a corresponding soundtrack - according to their vertical, horizontal and chromatic properties. The act of transposing picture into sound elements within the grammar of the moving image though equals a medial reinvention of the world. While the oscillations of its coastline move across the video screen, the island can acoustically replay itself as if put on a turntable - ISLAND PLAYBACK.
Katarina Matiasek, 2005
CONCEPT
REALIZATION
Katarina Matiasek
MUSIC
Scanner
PILOT
Zlatko Erdec
PRODUCTION
rewalk.net
POSTPRODUCTION
Walter Rafelsberger
SUPPORTED BY
BKA Kunstsektion, Filmbuero Bremen e.V.
DISTRIBUTION
SALES
sixpackfilm.com
For this, photographs of the coastline taken from the air were fed into a virtual synthesiser and translated into a sound curve. The oscillations on film lead to a corresponding soundtrack - according to their vertical, horizontal and chromatic properties. The act of transposing picture into sound elements within the grammar of the moving image though equals a medial reinvention of the world. While the oscillations of its coastline move across the video screen, the island can acoustically replay itself as if put on a turntable - ISLAND PLAYBACK.
Katarina Matiasek, 2005
CONCEPT
REALIZATION
Katarina Matiasek
MUSIC
Scanner
PILOT
Zlatko Erdec
PRODUCTION
rewalk.net
POSTPRODUCTION
Walter Rafelsberger
SUPPORTED BY
BKA Kunstsektion, Filmbuero Bremen e.V.
DISTRIBUTION
SALES
sixpackfilm.com