PASSAGE
7 minutes
2007
A collaborative work by Peter Byrne and Carole Woodlock:
image, animation and editing; and, Allan Schindler: music score.
Mastered
on DVCAM
DESCRIPTION:
Passage reflects on the peripheral. An inquiry
into memory, landscape, and departure, this work visually catches sight
of experience, as it moves past. In this work, the artists create a layered
encounter with streams of imagery and sound. The music employs 19-tone
equal temperament tuning, which provides many acoustically very pure
melodic and harmonic intervals, but also "blue" notes and intervals
that tend to sound "stretched" or "compressed".
The music is anchored by a slowly evolving flute-like theme that is threaded
through an ever-changing landscape of harmonic, rhythmic and coloristic
textures.