Satellite of Love – DVDrome
Curated by Peter TaylorDVD isn’t quite the digital panacea it’s become almost habitual to high-five. DVD transcodes sound and vision into its own image, generating highly compressed versions of the original video and sound files: inbred clones rather than identical twins of the same genetic source. But in recognising DVD’s limitations and burning their own way towards hybridist forms of expression, steadfast dilettantes in sound and image now have another opportunity to override design houses’ index of industrially (f)rigid bonus features and soft-focused technological jitter. Navigating this digitally affirmed course of self-fulfilling sufficiency and distribution, DVDrome II is neither a musical interlude for cinephiles nor a filmic excursion for music lovers. Dumping dichotomy, DVDrome II follows the vestige of curious inspiration traced by 2005’s Sound Check programme, offering up fresh platters of artistic excellence, independent thought and a belief that interesting film, video and sound emanate from the same primally creative urge.
In this combined programme
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Video Music 2: Electric Current
From Lovid’s hertz-bursts of video feedback to the warm brown feeling of Pawel Wojtasik’s Dark Sun Squeeze, video never sounded quite so good. -
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Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family
A family story of communal living, Hollywood Hills health food, and a single-minded devotion to costumes, communal idylls and following things through -
The Fine Art of Goofing Off
Devoted to celebrating pointless activity, Goofing Off dances between the silly and the philosophical with free-associative abandon. -
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Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel
A folk cinema celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, showcasing many of Niger’s venerable music styles. -
Small Steps: Conversations with Pauline Oliveros
A sublimely intimate conversation with Pauline Oliveros – composer, deep listener and sound humanitarian. -
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