Sound Of View
Experimental performance on the relationship between film and music. The same short film is shown four times, but each time accompanied by different music by music collective Postland. How does this influence the perception of the film?
The combination of film and music is magical. In collaboration, they reinforce each other and start a dialogue. Sound Of View is a study of these two worlds. What happens if you show the same film four times, but each time accompanied by different music? To what extent will it feel like a repetition if the music changes the atmosphere? And does that also change the overarching dramaturgy of the show?
Barbara Meter, the 85-year-old experimental pioneer made a short film with footage she collected during her career: from abstract to concrete, from human to nature, from black-and-white to colour, from slowed-down to sped-up. Her film will be screened four times, each time accompanied by different music played live, performed by Utrecht-based music collective Postland. Music that is abstract or concrete, expressive or detached, colourful or monotonous, fast or slow. The music was composed especially for this short film by respectively Yu Oda, Katarzyna Szwed, Friso van Wijck and Juan Felipe Waller. These composers differ in their national (Japan, Poland, the Netherlands and Mexico) and musical backgrounds (rock, heavy metal, jazz and classical). They make for four completely different interpretations.
Sound Of View shows how much influence music has on our perception of film images and vice versa. A sensory journey of discovery in which no two moments are the same.