Restlicht
AV Performance
Duration: 20 min.
Sunday, 16 April 2023 | 20:30 > 20:50 2023-04-16T20:30:00.000Z | Stage 1
https://anjakreysing.de/wp/restlicht => german
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/726849523
=> can be a performance / a lecture about my strategies or both!
"Restlicht" is about contemporary, experimental silent films with a live soundtrack on the edge of visibility, exploring the limits of cameras and our perception. Night vision cameras, night shots, backlit shots and trail cams provide the material, which tells a story in several layers.
restlicht is narrative without a certain plot. restlicht works with the power of cinematic means and with an associative and mystical degree of abstraction, which opens up space for the viewer's imagination and individual poetry.
The live soundtrack is played with accordion and electronics in the sense of a cinema organ 2.0: a powerful wall of sounds, in the field of atonality, pure sound experience and fragments of melodies and harmonies. Played live with a digitized accordion, which triggers three synthesizers parallel to the sound of its reeds in an external computer: a low-frequency foundation, accented sounds and soundscapes modulated by the movement of the accordion's bellows. The aesthetics of the film accompaniment is characterized by elements of classic silent film accompaniment, free jazz and (dark) ambient/noise.
A restlicht live performance lasts 20-30 minutes, depending on the performance setting.
restlicht has been listed so far
at Mopomoso TV March 2023, curated by Viv Corringham
at LAB30 Media Art Festival, Augsburg
at the Klangzeit Festival “SLOW LIGHT – SEEKING DARKNESS” Klanghaus Untergreith AT / Hrelji / Croatia (2022)
at the festival "endlos elektrosound" 35Blumen, Krefeld (2022)
as well as "restlicht pre" room installation u.A. in the Geological-Palaeontological Museum in Münster
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/726849523
=> can be a performance / a lecture about my strategies or both!
"Restlicht" is about contemporary, experimental silent films with a live soundtrack on the edge of visibility, exploring the limits of cameras and our perception. Night vision cameras, night shots, backlit shots and trail cams provide the material, which tells a story in several layers.
restlicht is narrative without a certain plot. restlicht works with the power of cinematic means and with an associative and mystical degree of abstraction, which opens up space for the viewer's imagination and individual poetry.
The live soundtrack is played with accordion and electronics in the sense of a cinema organ 2.0: a powerful wall of sounds, in the field of atonality, pure sound experience and fragments of melodies and harmonies. Played live with a digitized accordion, which triggers three synthesizers parallel to the sound of its reeds in an external computer: a low-frequency foundation, accented sounds and soundscapes modulated by the movement of the accordion's bellows. The aesthetics of the film accompaniment is characterized by elements of classic silent film accompaniment, free jazz and (dark) ambient/noise.
A restlicht live performance lasts 20-30 minutes, depending on the performance setting.
restlicht has been listed so far
at Mopomoso TV March 2023, curated by Viv Corringham
at LAB30 Media Art Festival, Augsburg
at the Klangzeit Festival “SLOW LIGHT – SEEKING DARKNESS” Klanghaus Untergreith AT / Hrelji / Croatia (2022)
at the festival "endlos elektrosound" 35Blumen, Krefeld (2022)
as well as "restlicht pre" room installation u.A. in the Geological-Palaeontological Museum in Münster
Author
Anja Kreysing, master of fine arts, sound- and media arts / experimental film, studied with Lutz Mommartz (German fluxus experimental filmer), additional studies with Nan Hoover, Christina Kubisch. Accordionist, improviser (workshops with Malcolm Goldstein et al, certified Deep listening practitioner after Pauline Oliveros). Primarely work with Live Soundtracks for (silent-)film, video, performance, theater…) and for her own videoart / experimental films with accordion / electronics. Anja uses her computerized accordion like a contemporary cinema organ with huge walls of sound....