three videos, the most beautiful, the sublime, the compelling
below: perhaps an unintended homage to gustave moreau, certainly my most
beautiful work, which comes through, however strangely, in spite of the
necessary compression. taped inside the rilke church, if i may call it that, in
raron, accompanied with the falls at the very tip of the aletsch. here is
spirit at its most sublime, from the upward sweep of the nave, to the
grandiosity of the glacier itself, many thousands of feet below.
http://www.asondheim.org/rilketongue.mp4
below: closeup of the 'tongue' of the aletsch glacier, with modified very low
frequency radio signals taken from the same site. the signals were
contaminated, by local power generation, up there on the bluff. filtering was
difficult because the generators seemed somewhat unstable. i used extreme hiss
reduction, notch filtering, and graphic equalization to create something
'readable.' i'm fascinated that the glacier moves of course at a snail's pace
or slower - but accompanied these radio signals, which originate from mostly
from cosmic and atmospheric phenomena. radio emissions (from cosmic and
atmomspheric phenomena) - invisible events, interpreted as sound. again, the
sublime, which often appears without the body of this body of work.
http://www.asondheim.org/aletschvlf.mp4
below: foofwa on 'dance is' for a second take in a squat in geneva. this is
more personal than the first 'dance is' and as such it was taped in a more or
less straightforward manner. i find the take quite touching. we later talked
about the graffiti surrounding us; the tags were in english, and seemed to
represent a form of the usual colonization.
http://www.asondheim.org/foofwadanceis2.mp4
