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Acousticity is a site specific animation commissioned
by Prague Contemporary Art Festival, June 2006 as part of the show
In a Silent Way: Susan Philipsz, Mark Bain, Carl Michael
Von Hausswolff, Semiconductor, Martin Janicek, Yuji Oshima and Paolo
Piscitelli.Curated By Daniele Balit. Some images of the installation can be seen here
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During
many excursions around the Czech capital, Semiconductor photographed
and recorded the sights and sounds of the city; reaching from the
suburbs and its factories to the city's famous medieval centre.
Each section of the film is controlled and animated by the sound
that was recorded in situ at time of the photography, creating a
physical connection between the images and the audio. The animated
photos bring to life the fabric of the city using resonance to open
a window onto the physicality of the structures themselves. The
buildings appear to be exploding with energetic particles leaving
it unclear whether we are looking at time speeded up, or an unseen
moment in time . |