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Tun / Whit

by OliSUn

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Tun / Whit (SNsC​​​-​​​04) 20:54
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Tun / Whit is a SoundScope (SNsC-04) by OliSUn.

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MUSIC by OliSUn:
'Tunnel' is a unique piece of 20mn-long approx. into 5 parts:

00:00 : PART I The Entering
06:50 : PART II The Meanderings
10:56 : PART III The Tunnel
16:32 : PART IV Pause
17:38 : PART V The Rebirth

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The sound doesn't illustrate the visuals but quite the opposite, this consists in a sound allegory supporting an unbridled imagery specific to each of us. The soundtrack of (y)our own interior film, that we named, SoundScope.

The complete track sails near the concept of Hauntology as conceived by french philosopher Jacques Derrida, exploring ideas related to temporal disjunction, retrofuturism, cultural memory, and permanence of the past.

We propose you 2 options:

- 1/ the choice of an excellent personal journey, wether with your eyes closed, to take full advantage of the effects of deep stereophony, thrilling infra-bass and other bursts of delicate saturation, thus leaving you complete freedom to create your own imaginary cinematography.

- 2/ Wether, eyes wide open, we offer you the non-narrative and experimental visual illustrations that we have selected for you:

- John & James Whitney - Five Film Exercises Film 1 (1943)
- John & James Whitney - Five Film Exercises Film 2-3 (1944)
- John & James Whitney - Five Film Exercises Film 4 (1944)
- John Whitney Catalog 1961

Link to the SoundScope: youtu.be/mZyWRnHTXws

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VISUALS by John & James Whitney.

The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. The eerie, sensuous neon glow of these forms is paralleled by pioneer electronic music sound scores composed by the brothers using a pendulum device to write sounds directly on the film's soundtrack area, with precisely controlled calibrations. At that time, before the perfection of recording tape, these sounds - with exotic "pure" tone qualities, mathematically even chromatic glissandos and reverberating pulsations - were truly revolutionary and shocking. The brothers won a Grand Prize at the 1949 Brussels Experimental Film Competition for the Film Exercises.

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released April 12, 2024

The soundtrack was played/ recorded/treated/mixed & edited during 2021 at New Blood Studios in Paris by OITS., just after the worldwide pandemic.
Crossing a Tunnel, from bright light to darkness then to light again, was the main image I had at this time.
Instrumentation & sonic collages by O.

The sleeve cover comes from a screenshot of the films, with additional manipulation & design by hOP.

With huge respect to the artists for their remarkable experimental works.
Thank you for listening & watching, play loud!

Made In Paris.
Enjoy This SoundsScope - SNsC04 // © OliSUn SteREo Recordings! 1943/1961/2024

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