Seeing an image, along with the subject represented, there’s another layer that
is the effect of what is evoked
or implied as feelings or memories. The “mental image” is a way to express this concept: what is outside of an
image.
The structure:
The audio and the video track features contrasts and resonances on a timbral or
chromatic level. Various source
material as pictures, video, written text, field recordings, samples. This is a way to represent the difference
between a real image and a mental one.
The audio:
The audio track is called “a Mental Image of F” and is based upon an idea of a
separation between the two stereo
channels juxtaposed on a central development as a way to depict the difference between a perceived image and a
real one.
The video:
The video is focused upon the dialectic between moving pictures and static ones
obtained as long-time exposures
to the first cut of the video. So the mental image is depicted as a sort of static image, or a memory, of what was
moving.
Video: Adern X (2014)
Audio: Adern X (2014)
Intervallo
This movie is a visual representation of the sound construction principles used
in the audio track, as a way
to reflect about the relation between images and sound. Even if the result could be abstract, image, as sound,
is not something ephemeral since the film frame
transforms what is intended to be seen, or projected, in a physical object that lasts and can be manipulated.
So, time acts as an agent of decontextualisation of the recorded subject and as the frame containing the
elaborated object. The decontextualisation entails that Words became the punctuation in the overall grammar,
as its role became of connection, or support to the elements, if necessary.
The track "Intermezzo" is available on Cinema
Show.
Video: Adern X
Audio: Adern X & Tiziano Milani
Schwechater
Adern X add a soundtrack to the commercial made by Peter Kubelka in 1958. This
video is the Ausländer prolog:
an ongoing project about the possibility that music accepts all the small voices and noises from the outside
without aiming to cover them.
Video: Peter Kubelka (1958)
Audio: Adern X (2013)
Headphone or a good subwoofer recommended. Listen at a quiet volume.