2017•Goldsmiths (University of London)Requires access
'Progress Music I' [Screening]
James Bulley
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Abstract
'Progress Music I' is a 9-channel film-sound installation that explores the rhythm of British industrial short film in the postwar period. The structuring of the piece is defined by a chance-based sound score, divided into three movements, which composes the film in real-time from a repository of thousands of film and sound fragments collected by the artist. As a result, each play through of the piece traces a new pathway through the archive. \n \n'Progress Music I' is inspired by the collaborative works of British filmmaker Geoffrey Jones and composer Daphne Oram, and was initialling commissioned by South Kiosk, London. \n \nA fixed media single-screen capture of one movement from the work was screened on 24 February 2017 at the Sound and Music in Documentary film symposium at the University of Huddersfield.