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O.S.T. (in Hoody) & Transforma, Photo
by Lars Borges |
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About Synken
An evolving, resonating journey through splintering landscapes
and mysterious characters. Abstractions and forms are reverberated
in fragile soundscapes of chaotic planes and unsettling arrhythmic
patterns. Is it film or an improvised VJ cut-up? Is it visualized
music feeding back into images, or images generating music?
SYNKEN pushes the limitations and restrictions of genres.
Synchronized sinking as SYNKEN is Transforma and O.S.T.’s
collective creative experience.
With a mix of abstract images, graphic animation,
digital image effects and complex film sequences, SYNKEN
creates a fantastically spaced out, darkly romantic image-world.
Forests filled with distorted organic forms are contrasted
against an architectural abyss, as strange and fantastic
characters try to make sense of their surroundings. A mysterious
vagabond works as a medium between these parallel worlds,
transporting artefacts that become recurring symbols in the
dual system and means of communication between the creatures
which inhabit them.
Produced in parallel to the images, O.S.T.‘s arrhythmic
crackling electronic 5.1 surround soundtrack bathes the images
in an eerily hypnotic flow. As sound and image merge and fall
apart again over time, they form a synergy that opens up subtle
leads which can never be read only as linear. As plot fragments
refract and reoccur, SYNKEN continuously confronts the viewer
with a modular narrative that can be potentially combined to
create any number of interpretations. in the live performance
version, Transforma and O.S.T.‘s real-time decisions will
use this potential to develop further one-off versions of SYNKEN.
O.S.T.
American electronic music maverick O.S.T. has been releasing
and performing since 1992 as O.S.T., rook vallade, Dalglish, and
other aliases. After more than 10 albums and numerous singles under
his various monikers, Douglas remains well outside the established
parameters of electronic music. His work is a malevolent mutation
of techno into arrhythmic patterns, interwoven digital textures,
and amorphous melodies. He is known, somewhat notoriously, as an
artist who is unrelentingly true to what creativity, emotion, and
passion are to music. In 2003 O.S.T. was invited by Autechre to
play at their curated All Tomorrows Parties. After performing around
Europe he decided to settle in Berlin where after a few years of
coming down, he uses this project to start again.
Transforma
Berlin video artist collective Transforma
(Baris Hasselbach, Luke
Bennett and Simon Krahl) combine the momentum of
VJ improvisation with the power of highly composed
imagery and narrative. Transforma started producing
experimental video art in 2001 and have been taking
their imageworld and production processes to higher
levels of absurdity ever since. They have worked on
promos, concert video and live cinema approaches, in
collaboration with Apparat and Funkstörung
among others, and have VJed in clubs in Berlin and
around Europe. |
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