13 films on DVD out now in Europe/USA/Japan PAL + NTSC! Buy now:
Fat Cat Records
or Boomkat UK or Microcinema US.

Semiconductor are artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt who make stunning, cutting-edge digital artworks in the form of sound-films, music videos and live animation . Guided by obsessive interests in landscape, architecture, geography, chaos / systems theory and artificial life forms, they explore the potential of the computer to unite sound and image (sounds generating and controlling imagery; and vice versa) . What's revealed are physical worlds in flux - cities in motion; shifting landscapes and systems in chaos . Hugely original and immensely creative, Semiconductor approach each project from a fresh angle, always looking to extend themselves and to break new ground . They have exhibited their work in gallery installations, at festivals and in live / club environments; and have been awarded numerous fellowships, prizes and residencies, notably as artists in residence at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory UCB . This DVD offers a comprehensive overview of their work over the past five years.


"Essential viewing if you have any interest in the converging worlds of audio and visual digital art . " Kultureflash

"There's plenty of seriousness here but Semiconductor never lose touch with their animators funny bones", "My favorite is The Sound of Microclimates, filmed in Paris for a surround sound installation . This is animation as ambiguity - is this cloud really hovering over the building? Why is there an iceberg in the municipal pond? Semiconductor's surly electronic soundtrack suggests a sci-fi distortion of the everyday city, till at dusk the glowing lights of the traffic detach themselves and flock like birds . In a moment of great beauty they swarm across Paris to nestle between skyscrapers, jiggling as if crammed into a discotheque for off duty tail-lights . " Clive Bell, The Wire

"A jam packed DVD from one of the audio-visual world's most intriguing acts - a must see . " Boomkat

"Versatile but always coherent in style and visual options Semiconductor are definitively placed in our personal hall of fame of digital cinematic artists . " Neural.it

“Semiconductors work is becoming like an elegant hybrid experimental meta-science fiction, dismantles material representations of observable worlds, reconstructing strange and familiar places .Steven Ball, Vertigo Magazine

"Space physicists and avant garde artists like Semiconductor both explore their respective spaces, and on this DVD there's room for those two worlds to intersect . " Popmatters

"Becoming an audio-visual palette-cleanser for the bastion of commercial music seems an odd fate for the work of the first artists-in-residence at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory ( Berkeley , CA ), but it's symptomatic of Semiconductor's continual expansion and ability to transcend confines posed by genre . " Liam Arnold Skinny

1 Brilliant Noise
2 The Sound of Microclimates
3 múm-Green Grass of Tunnel
4 Inaudible Cities
5 Strata
6 qt-qqq
7 Mini Epochs
8 Sonic Inc (extracts)
9 Digital Anthrax
10 Earthquake Films
11 Do You Think Science...
12 All the Time in the World
13 Double Adaptor-200 Nanowebbers
Including specially made alternate soundtracks for Brilliant Noise by:
Antenna Farm, Disinformation
Thomas Dimuzio, Ensemble, Gæoudjiparl
Robert Hampson, Iris Garrelfs
Our Brother The Native, Max Richter
The Twilight Sad, Cristian Vogel

Check out and download the soundtracks here:
www.fat-cat.co.uk





Brilliant Noise
05.57
Sound film
2006
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Mini Epochs
04.17
x5 7" widescreen LCD sound films
2003
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200_Nanowebbers
02.49
Audio:Double Adaptor
© www.osaka.ie
2005
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Earthquake Films
09.33
Sound Film
2000
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The Sound of Microclimates
08.20
surround sound DVD installation
2004
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All the Time in the World
04.40
surround sound DVD installation
2005
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Green Grass of Tunnel
04.26
music promo for Múm
©Fat-Cat Records
2002
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Strata
Live work
09.24
2002
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Inaudible Cities
06.42
Sound Film
2002
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Sonic Inc.
12.00
Live performance software current live work from 2004/07
documentation from 2006 shows
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QT
01.00
music promo for qqq
©Fat-Cat Records 2001
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Do You Think Science....
6.00
Short Film
2006
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Digital Anthrax
04.42
Live performance work
2002
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