Exploring time
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I use to be big fan of Pink Floyd back when I was twenty. I still like their music very much. Feel great pleasure to listen great sound of their, mostly older, albums. I really enjoy how do they created music. You need to listen whole album and not songs. Their music use to be created for enjoyment and not for consumption. Enjoyment connected with imagination and creativity. It is great to listen to those lines of text and let your self be taken by the music. After listening more and more one get really in their word and can enjoy it without the limits.
Only recently I find out information that Richard Wright has died last year in September. He played keyboards in the band. I am listening his last solo album “Broken China”. It is made in the same manner, creating whole series, whole project and not independent songs. To me it sound a bit simpler than Pink Floyd creation back from seventies. Same like I feel on Roger Waters or Dave Gilmour solo albums. But that is something else that is matter of the taste.
What I like to write about is that idea of creating a cycle, project, closed space, which explores one idea, but with all possible means of the medium. Something they always excelled in. How great it must be to create this closed whole product. like writing a book, it is also not bunch of independent chapters like the album is not group of tunes only. It has something more in it. One can tell it is a story it is part of somebodies life. Part of time when one feels, imagine and act. Medium tries to make that time possible to comprehend by others.
To listen a song or to read a chapter takes time, few minutes to little hour perhaps. One need to listen read sometimes more than once. How to make possible same time is used to watch, observer the image? How to create that kind of unit like album or book is in photography medium? Maybe with combining images with the music, movement?
I think it is not the combination of media but the strength of a concept or idea that hold the images together which makes a strong “album”.
I agree Dirk, that I would call is the base and first requirement, but I was more thinking about how to attract viewer attention for little longer than it is normally when image is viewed at the computer screen. I though that would be great to use combination of media.
I think that would be a distraction, although a slideshow as movie may be an idea worth trying. I liked my Photosonics concept quite a lot to combine sound and a still image so perhaps that is worth exploring. But music or sound is “dangerous” as it has its own power and compete with the visual.
For over ten years I had this idea of exhibiting photos in a gallery space and a set of headphones next to it… never realised it so why don’t you try?
Yes Dirk, that what I have in mind, something like your Photosonics, but a bit of music as well and moving over images to simulate path of eye. Little drama and tension maybe if it does fit. And imagine that in dark cinema with a good sound. Something like Pink Floyd connects the music with images, I may try the same other way around images be connected with music.