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Filmmakers aren’t the only time-based media artists to shape landscapes. This program highlights sound artists and composers who use landscape as a starting point for their compositions. Malena Szlam will screen her 35mm film Altiplano, featuring the sounds and images from the South America’s Andes Mountains. After the film, the lights will remain low so we can hear the works of soundscapes in a cinema with a dark screen. Then, the lights come up for two performances by the local collective 113, based in St. Paul.
Altiplano
Directed by Malena Szlam
Filmed in the Andes Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, Altiplano takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and colored lakes. Fusing earth with sky, day with night, heartbeat with mountain, and mineral with iridescent cloud, the film reveals a vibrating landscape in which a bright blue sun forever threatens to eclipse a blood-red moon. 2018, 35mm, 16 min.
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Directed by Stephen Cripps
Birds, wind, footsteps, distant dialogue, and music are edited together to create sonic soundscape of his everyday experiences captured during many walks around his neighborhood. Stephen Cripps was a British artist working in audio, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. 1972–1976, audio, 23 min. Courtesy the Henry Moore Archive, UK.
Yeah! Though I Walk through the Valley of Silicon
By Christopher Jette
A sound walk through the streets of Palo Alto. 2020, 7.1 Surround Sound audio, 10 min.
agape.Closed
Composed by Joey Crane and performed live by soprano Gabrielle Doran. 2014, 7 min.
mais mes mains
An aria for solo mezzo-soprano from The Golden Ass, composed by Tiffany Skidmore, performed live by Alyssa Anderson 2016, 12 min.
