Ariel Mioduser

Resonance festival for sound-art films and new music

September 26-28, 2024

Grosso Modo Artists Collective Gallery, Tel Aviv

Curator: Ariel Mioduser

 

Since its inception, 'New Music' has embraced a multi-sensory approach, incorporating visual elements alongside auditory ones. This blurring of boundaries has led to a rich tapestry of works that explore various relationships between music and visuals.

The festival features a variety of works that explore the dynamic relationship between music and visuals. Some pieces translate one medium into the other, while others amplify each other's impact. Ultimately, they all create a harmonious and immersive experience that transcends the boundaries of traditional music and visual arts.

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Festival program

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Section 1: Playing the world

Concrete music and field recordings

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Eucalyptus 

Nicolas Vazquez (Argentina) - 3:23 min

Composer and Performer: Nicolas Vazquez

Video Director: Lucia Benavente

Sound/visual construction Non-invasive techniques for reading tree bark, establish a dialogue with a living being, member of a community through a unique and sound translation.

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Streaming through July 4th

Igal Myrtenbaum (Israel) - 5:43 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Igal Myrtenbaum

Impressions from July 4th in Boston. After a year of living there I realized that the city is rooted in a culture based on water. Everything flows - people come and go. Initially, it is difficult to distinguish this connection due to the abundance of material (buildings and iron) that obscures and confuses.

 

IN/SEKT

Simon Šerc & Martina Testen (Slovenia) - 1:42 min

Composers, Performers and Video Directors: Simon Šerc & Martina Testen

IN/SEKT harnesses footage of insects, weaving them seamlessly with a tapestry of technological signals. Audiences are invited to contemplate the interplay between technology and artistic expression.

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Roundabout midday

Asher Arnon (Israel) - 6:23 min

Composer and Video Director: Asher Arnon

A twelve-minute shot of traffic flow fragmented and arranged as a polyphony of accelerating and decelerating sonic and visual gestures.

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VIVA L'autunno  (BYT_O_M)

Dariusz Mazurowski (Poland) - 5:05 min

Composer: Dariusz Mazurowski

Performers: Dariusz Mazurowski - electronics, string orchestra conducted by Maciej Koczur

Video Director: Remigiusz Wojaczek

Commissioned by the Screen&Sound Festival, premiered on October 13, 2018, where BYT_O_M, a film made for VIVA L'autunno, directed by Remigiusz Wojaczek, won the Grand Prix.

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Succession

David Anthony Sant (Australia) - 3:09 min

Composer: Field Recording by David Schaffer

Video Director: David Anthony Sant

LED lights - neon lights - high rise buildings - avenues - digital billboards - illuminated street signs - plazas - streets - slap stickers - graffiti - alleyways - mirrors and reflections - Seoul

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A different goal

Marco Joubert (Canada) - 3:26 min

Composer: Marco Joubert (Sound Designer)

Performer: Marco Joubert (Foley Artist + Sound Editor + Sound Mixer)

Video Director: Marco Joubert

Narrator: David Peterson

What would happen if intelligent machines started developing their own goals, different from those of humankind?

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Time Train (The Specious Present)

Sarah leMieux (USA) - 6:44 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Sarah leMieux

The Specious Present joins electroacoustic score with digitally rotoscoped video, blending recordings from different eras to create a quantum-magic train ride through 20 years of moments. 

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Section 2: Enjoy the noise

Noise, drone, ambient and more

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Are we there yet?

Henrique Vilao (Portugal) - 3:20 min

Composer and Video Director: Henrique Vilao

Are we there yet? explores the intersection between experimental and music and video, using at its core glitch and CRT monitor images. 

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Dragon In

Ran Slavin (Israel) - 9:18 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Ran Slavin

Oolông: Ambient Works is a 74 min ambient minimal symphonic album that conceptually takes after various teas in the far east. Each track is named after a tea blend.

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Self-portrait

Valentin Sismann (France) - 4:54 min

Composer: Valentin Sismann

Self-portrait simply perpetuates the human obsession with finding his double through the question of representation. 

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Lucid

Michael Ben Abu (Israel) - 4:40 min

Composer: Avi Belleli

Video Director: Michael Ben Abu

Video Editing: Sharon Azagi

Lucid: a journey between dream and paint, based on paintings that emerge from the depths of memory and unconsciousness. The artwork follows a spiral movement of archetypal images, resembling the hollow lucidity of a diver who perceives a range of colors, emotions, and feelings, while hearing magic.

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Manitulation

Astrid Busch (Germany) - 5:24 min

Composer: Stadtfischflex

Video Director: Astrid Busch

Producer: Oliver Schwabe

The manipulation of 35mm material creates a unique collage of scratched, cut, burnt and treated with corrosive liquids images. An interaction between analogue manipulation, planned chaos and AI.

 

O/S

Max Hattler (UK) - 5 min

Composers: ZHANG Riwen, CHAN Hattie, Marvin HAUCK, HU Xiaozhi, LAU Tatia Pui Wan, LU Yujie, NG Chit, WANG Xiaobu, ZHANG Xiaoyu

Video Director: Max Hattler

Animation: ZHANG Riwen, CHAN Hattie, Marvin HAUCK, HU Xiaozhi, LAU Tatia Pui Wan, LU Yujie, NG Chit, WANG Xiaobu, ZHANG Xiaoyu

Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. What you hear is exactly what you see.

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Passengers

Alvin Tang (Singapore) - 4:15 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Alvin Tang

Employing the role of moving images as vehicles to relay the liminality in places and time, 'Passengers' lure and detach the viewers from reality, journeying them into zones of the in-between.

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Section 3: Beyond playing

Stretching the boundaries of musical instruments

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Bifurcations simples

Joakim Sandgren (Sweden/France) - 6:56 min

Composer and Video Director: Joakim Sandgren

Performer: Sören Hermansson

This is my first try working with visualisation of my music. I did a parallel between the very close microphoned sounds and very close up images.

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The Phoenix (עוף החול)

Adaya Godlevsky (Israel) - 7:31 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Adaya Godlevsky

In the video "Phoenix," the harp speaks through its silent presence, filled with meaning and connections. At moments, it seems to fade yet continues to resonate through its presence. The surrounding sounds can be heard, until the harp's figure disappears, and its sound takes flight.

The video was produced by Musrara school and Organuz studio, Musrara Mix Festival online, 2020

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Produktionsmittel

Karl F. Gerber (Germany) - 8:11 min

Composers: Kar F. Gerber, Karina Erhard

Performer: Karina Erhard

Video Director: Karl F. Gerber

I developed a computerized Bowed Psaltery with 15 bows. In addition to my score flutist Karina Erhard co-composed a live part. The video shows the premiere with Psaltery video visualizing polyrhythms.

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Radio Moonlight (midnight mix)

Frank Ferraro (USA) - 6:10 min

Composer and Video Director: Frank Ferraro

Performer: Beth Clausen

Crack The Sky, The Unfinished Story

Part eulogy, part homage to the spirit of a dying medium, radio.  A sound and image musical seamless poem.

 

With hat / without hat

Igal Myrtenbaum (Israel) - 3 min

Composer and Video Director: Igal Myrtenbaum

Performers: Doret Florentin, Igal Myrtenbaum

A piece for processed recorders, performed by Doret Florentin (recorders) and Igal Myrtenbaum (electronics), performed in various locations in Tel Aviv. Composed and produced with the support of The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts in 2022.

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Transmit me

Felix Mayer (Germany) - 3:16 min

Composer: Felix Mayer

Performers: John Hughes, Kris Kuldkepp, Felix Mayer, Birgit Ulher

Video Directors: Johannes Kohout, Felix Mayer

Camera: Leon Daniel, Laura Gericke

Technical direction: Sebastian Bauhof 

"Transmit me" is a tin can telephone concert installation exploring isolation, closeness, and distance, reflecting on the possibilities of communication, connection, and relationships.

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Spectral breathing apparatus

Stephen de Filippo (Australia/USA) - 3:04 min

Composer: Stephen de Filippo

Performer: Niamh Dell (oboe)

Video Director: Angela Guyton

Recorded and mixed by James Bradbury

Spectral Breathing Apparatus amplifies liminal oboe sounds without the reed. Tiny squeaks and breaths create novel textures, exploring both chaotic and natural sonic environments.

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Section 4: See the music

Algorithms and formulas as raw material

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Drawings II

Marcela Morilla (Argentina/Belgium) - 4:01 min

Composer: Gustavo Chab

Video Director: Marcela Morilla

This video is a syntony between abstract images and acousmatic music. Geometrical forms with smooth colours and slow movements, then points with vibrant tones, join granulated and fast sounds. 

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Simple forms

Natalia Ryss (Israel) - 3:24 min

Composer, Video Director and Producer: Natalia Ryss

Sound Design: Natalia Ryss, Max Epstein

12 symbols with 12 sounds

What will happen if I multiply images?

What will happen with perception of sound?

What does music and narration mean?

I extract structural unit like a "phoneme"

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let vectors = {};

Shai Cohen (Israel) - 5:53 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Shai Cohen

"let vectors = {}; for fixed media" "is an audiovisual work that combines dynamic visual arrays with soundscapes and examines the array of relationships between code and sensory experiences.

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Das Glasperlenspiel. Isomorphism

Doron Lagunov & Michael Polyakin (Israel) - 3 min

Composer: Doron Lagunov

Performer: Music generated by MuseScore

Video Director: Michael Polyakin

Experimental Video Interpretation of “Three-movement Allegro" by Doron Lagunov. In this video we explore the possible ISOMORPHISM between music and visuals.

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Traces:Lights

Jean-Michel Rolland (France) - 3:18 min

Composer and Video Director: Jean-Michel Rolland

Audiovisual experimentation from a video filmed by car, by night in Beijing where the music is generated by the variations of the total brightness on the screen.

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Akous-Batik

Jean-Marc Duchenne (France) - 5:13 min

Composer, Performer and Video Director: Jean-Marc Duchenne

A jubilant piece in the style of an animated tapestry, based on video and sounds created about twenty years ago, reworked in 2024 using AI-produced tools.

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zen_e

Zsolt Gyenes (Hungary) - 3:34 min

Composers and Performers: Zsolt Gyenes and Attila Dóra

Video Director: Zsolt Gyenes

The opus is based on analog sound-reactive audiovisual technique applying mostly wobbulator. It is an improvisation with some after effects. 

Homage to Nam June Paik. 

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Section 5: Movement in space

An encounter between movement and sound

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Tensegrity

Kin Lam Lam (Hong Kong) - 9:09 min

Composer: Kin Lam Lam

Performers: The “Tensegrity” team

Video Directors: Etienne Leung, Quinn Wong

Concept: Etienne Leung, Quinn Wong, Catherine Lau

Director: Etienne Leung

Co-director, Producer: Quinn Wong

Lead Cast, Choreographer: Wai Lok Chan

Art Director: Kary Kwok

Light Artist: Amy Chan

Sound Artist, Sound Design: Kin Lam

Director of Photography: Etienne Leung

Editors: Etienne Leung, Quinn Wong

Camera Assistant: To Chan

Gaffer: Bun Chan

Best Boy: Felix Leung

Sound Recordist: Yiu Tong Fung

Hair, Make-up: Megumi Sekine

Still Photography: Kinho Lam

Colourist, Computer Graphics: FMLIK

Sound Mixing: Yiu Tong Fung

Copywriter: Catherine Lau

Title Design: Etienne Leung, Quinn Wong

Driver: Bryan Choy

Special Thanks:

Elspeth CF Chan (Somatic Movement Consultant), OUER (Outfit Sponsor), Oscar Chi (Legal Consultant), Angela Moo (English Copywriter), Angie Chan, Poon Wing Sze"

"Tensegrity" captures Hong Kong's changes, reflecting collective emotions through real-time improvisation of dance, sound, and light. A feedback loop forms, shaping and responding to the environment.

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36000

Pierre Villemin (France) - 6:30 min

Composer: Gilles Sornette

Performer and Video Director: Pierre Villemin

Se perdre et se fondre dans la matière du paysage, comme nos ancètres, il y a 36000 ans.

Get lost and blend into the landscape, like our ancestors 36,000 years ago.

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IN

Michal Bratt (Israel) - 8 min

Composer: Gal Roditti

Performer: Michal Bratt

Video Directors: Michal Bratt, Amnon Houri

Choreography: Israel Galvan

An original and honest video-dance explores suffocation, confinement, overcoming them. A unique collaboration with Israel Galvan uses contemporary flamenco to convey intense experiences and emotions.

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WAVES Interactive

Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik (Netherlands) - 3:43 min

Composers: Petra Dubach, Mario van Horrik

Performer: Petra Dubach

Video Director: Mario van Horrik

In a church 2 long strings are stretched, each 50 meters long. The strings are amplified and made to produce feedback sounds. Petra's slow movements change the standing waves produced by the sounds.

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Colonizers

Constance Cooper (USA) - 2:41 min

Composer: Constance Cooper

Performers: Andrea Clinton, Constance Cooper, Irina Varina

Video Director: Irina Varina

Camera: Karl Clinton

They're hurrying where, they're dancing in celebration before they know where to stake their claim, who are they, don’t they know how to dress for the beach? and other questions not answered.

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Stuhl quartett

Sergey Khismatov (Russia) - 5:40 min

Composer and Video Director: Sergey Khismatov

Performers: Olivia Sue Dornemann, Lauri Nousiainen, Anna Korsun, Sergey Khismatov

Four people and one squeaky chair. Stuhl Quartett (Chair Quartet) is dedicated to one single sound object - a spinning and squeaky chair.

 

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Section 6: The human voice

Beyond singing

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Wording land

Gloria Damijan, Ximena Alarcón & Jane Wang (Austria/USA/UK) - 3:35 min

Composers and Performers: Ximena Alarcón, Gloria Damijan, Jane Wang

Video Director: Gloria Damijan

Technical Support: Mike O'Connor

Developed amongst the three of us, and recorded live in autumn 2023 using various telematic technologies at individual locations in Bath (UK), Boston (USA) and Vienna (Austria). 

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Lamentation for the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

Netta Spiegel (Israel) - 10:40 min

Composer: Netta Spiegel

Performers: The Great Gehenna Choir

Video Directors: Netta Spiegel, Yotam Sas

Directed by : Netta Spiegel, Yotam Nissim Sas

Written by: Netta Spiegel, Avner Miriam Amit

Cinematographer: Yair Meyuhas

Editor: Yotam Nissim Sas

Produced by: The Great Gehenna Choir, ‘Mamuta’ Art and Media Center

Score Design: Nati Zeidenstadt, Gidon Levy

Recording: Gidon Levy, Yotam Dor

Colorist:  Roi Kayzerman

An audio-visual lament for Tel Aviv's bus station. Vocal actions merge with the 50 hertz frequency and brutalist architecture, resonating in a psycho-magical attempt to anoint the sick.

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September angels

Thea Spector (Georgia/Israel) - 4:16 min

Composers: Rakhmat Davudova, Poison Plants

Video Director: Thea Spector

It is most appropriate to call this work a "documentary folklore prayer clip".

The footage was filmed in the fall of 2022, and in 2023. A kamancha player improvised to music while watching a video.

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[SELF]INSERTIONS: The human league factor

Jose Cruzio (Portugal) - 6:02 min

Composer: Demonio Antonio [Antonio Caramelo]

Performer: Jose Cruzio

Video Directors: Demonio Antonio [Antonio Caramelo], Jose Cruzio

The self – as the deepest representation of itself – and its intense desire to permeate in the expression and language of the Other, blazes the project [self] Insertions, as another untimely view.

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My suitcase stands in the corner

Nadya Sayapina (Belarus) - 4:33 min

Composer: Eugene Buldyk

Performers: Nadya Sayapina, Vocals by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Video Directors: Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk

X letters project was made as collaboration between visual artist Nadya Sayapina, musician Eugene Buldyk and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart ensemble

X Letters is a video-diary compiling into one "book" diverse personal reflections from social media and interviews on exile, migration, and crisis due to the war in Ukraine and repression in Belarus. 

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Here's the information we collect

Tansy Xiao (USA) - 1:30 min

Composer and Video Director: Tansy Xiao

Performers: Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble - Soprano: Charlotte Mundy, Mezzo-Soprano: Elisa Sutherland, Countertenor: Jonathan May, Tenor: Tomás Cruz, Baritone: Jeffrey Gavett, Bass: Peter Stewart

Max/MSP Engineer: Matthew Ostrowski

Recording Engineer: Kevin Ramsay

Documentation captured during the residency at the Institute for Electronic Arts

Here's the Information We Collect is a multi-channel interactive video installation tailored to respond to selected privacy policy on major social media platforms.