Machines and their Soft Operation

The Lesley wavetech sawtable assemblage

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:12:47 +0000

This piece appeared at Supernormal festival this summer. Im currently rebuilding/working on it so it becomes part of a 3 piece Sonic-Object installation with the objects from ‘Phantom Walls’ and a new object. The saw was orignially part of the table which the Lesley unit is mounted on.

Light Show table of junk

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:42:54 +0000

Heres the light show as we ended up setting it up. On several tables infront of the stage, effectively as the front row. Operating the OHPs meant standing up and this probably caused some obstruction to visibility for some of the audience. At the bottom left of the picture is the 16mm modified to hand cranked which featured in the track known as ‘Environments’ alongside James manipulation of acid soaked slides through various glass lenses, prisms and mirrored devices.

Half way house

admin — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:30:35 +0000

Holding up in woodbridge at the half way mark for the tour. Its been impossible to blog because of time restraints, internet scarcity and mammoth workload and show schedule.

I can offer here but a mere sample of this tour in photo form. Its been an amazing journey so far, mentally, emotionally, phsyically, creatively. Erica, Matt and Tall have been awesome.

Preparations for tour

admin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:26:58 +0000

Here are some images of stuff in studio in preparation for the MV / EE tour which we start next week. I will be posting blogs for each show hopefully.

Our basic set-up consists of 4 x kodak 35mm slide projectors on dimmers, 2 Epidiascopes using various lights/lamps as projections, a prism beam splitter and prism (in reverse), 2 OHP projectors using various water trays & foil effects, 16mm projectors both hand cranked and on dimmers, special ACID slide machines and various light and shadow mechanisms.

Robert Fludd

admin — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:45:10 +0000

Robert Fludd was an English mystic. I use his name as a nom de plume when writing for the Cube Blog in order to add gravity to otherwise trivial undertakings.

http://blog.cubecinema.com/category/robert-fludd/

Shooting on the Bolex

admin — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:32:04 +0000

Here are some frame grabs from Esther Campbells film working of a James Blackshaw track. Was shot on an Arri for first 2 days, then I used a Bolex on the last day. I will post a link to the finished piece when its available. Really happy with the results especially this shot where we crane down from high in the trees, using Talls great heath-robinson crane following Esthers mum, shot at 64fps. The footage was telecined off the neg and its a shame we couldnt see a transfer of print stock.

Cinema Nova and Kino Climates

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:04:53 +0000

Recently went to Cinema Nova in Bruxells. Been waiting to see this place for ten years. They were hosting a Kino Climates meeting and it was a great event with lots of meetings, dialogue, screenings and socialising.

The Kino Climates network has great potential. One thing I will be pushing now is proclaiming a ‘CELLULOID’ movement to foreground the deliberate and explicit use of Film presentation in Cinematic events. In a non-malicious way I want to divide the network in order to first gauge how important this aspect is as a common ground.

Is there a movement towards more Film presentation for instance in organisation playing off digital and electronic formats?

What is the essential meaning in adherence to celluloid as a material for presenting moving image works?

Phantom Walls

admin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:45:53 +0000

The finished installation consisted of Sculptural element, sound playback and low frequency presence.

The darkended room provided an ideal setting and a false wall behind which to install the CD and cross-over electronics as well as the sub bass cabinet and tone machine.

Named ‘Phantom Walls’ after a book by Oliver Lodge, one credited inventor of the moving coil speaker, the looping voice is a recording from 1966 of a medium channeling Oliver Lodge.

The 3 cell horn mounted on the industrial tripod forming the main sculptural part is aimed at a candle at an angle which produces the illusion that the candle is talking. The above recording is infact playing back through the driver and horn.

The bass sine wave produced a tone around 35hz which was selected as it was found to be the basic resonant frequency of the space. Low frequency hums and tones have been associated with reportings of the paranormal and ghosts, etc.

In this environment and throughout the building the bass wavelengths produced some seriously unpleasant focal points and intensity areas.

Exhibition preparation

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:11:04 +0000

Im preparing for an exhibition at the Backside Space in the motorcycle showroom. The space is a blackened room with no light. I have been preparing a vintage Vitavox N-series compression driver and a square 3 cell horn and along with a large set of legs for a 35mm camera these will constitute the sculptural parts of the sonic work.

The show is on Friday 23rd March, BacksideBlackHole, 15-19 Stokes Croft. 7pm-10pm.

Travel Film Kit

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:58:57 +0000

This is the kit I’m currently carrying with me in Haiti.
I’m here as one of a three people team from the Cube Cinema
forming the current field team for HKKP.

I’m planning on using the free time I have here to document what I can about
the people and places we see, a people struggling to rebuild their lives after
2009s devastating Earthquake.

The kit consists of:
A Nizo Super 8mm, 3 rolls of Ektachrome, 2 rolls of Tri-X, an Olympus PEN 35mm half frame, 2 rolls of Fuji Neopan 100, 2 rolls of Kodak Ektar 100, an Olympus MD90 sound recorder, a lunasix light meter, a Bolex RX4, filters, 3 rolls of 7222 (Double-X).

Alltogether its quite heavy.

The plan for the PEN is to shoot turned, thus giving me an approximate landscape 35mm picture as the PEN is a half frame and affords twice as many shots per roll. These frames will then hopefully be able to be refilmed in the printer the same as rolls of 35mm motion stock.

The sound recorder means recording mediums seperately and this effectively frees each medium from the other.