Earshot
Mario Verandi
Screening: Klang-Film
Open Space
7 pm, Friday, January 27th
Mario Verandi was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires. He studied music in Argentina and Barcelona, and received his PhD at the University of Birmingham (UK). He was composer-in-residence at La Muse en Circuit (Paris), Césaré studio de création musicale (Reims), TU-Studios Berlin, ZKM (Karlsruhe) and Cuenca Electroacoustic Music Studios (Spain) . In 2000 he moved to Berlin as a guest of the artists in residency program of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). He was guest lecturer at the Musicology Department of the Free University Berlin in 2003-2004. Verandi's awards include the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France), Musica Nova Competition (Prague), CIEJ Electronic Music Awards (Barcelona), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz), Stockholm Electronic Arts Awards (Sweden), SGAE Prize (Spain) and ZKM Commission Prize (Germany). Verandi´s music is available from the Electronic Music Foundation record label.
Media example
View Quicktime movie - Klang Film
Klang-Film
The music composed for a short version of the film "Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik" (Workers Leaving the Factory) by Harun Farocki, works as a new and influential shaping element that opens up a new dimension for the perception of the visual narrative. The aim was to create a music that works as a parallel entity to the film and yet is inspired and structured by the film. This piece explores the sensory counterpoint of sounds and images and their interaction, ambiguity and friction. How does a particular music shape the perception of images?. How do images shape the perception of a particular music?. In his book "Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen" Michel Chion suggests that sound and image are always independent, and it is simply our conditioning and use of conventions of synchronization that make us believe that they are not. I believe the French filmmaker Robert Bresson provides us with an illuminating metaphor: "Images and sounds, like strangers who make acquaintance on a journey and afterwards cannot separate".
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