Indefinite Cycles of Loose Ends
‘He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, a painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn.’- Herman Hesse
Muybridge’s studies of human and animal movement are brought together with a group of diverse things: objects like old furniture, drawers, medical instruments, architectural elements, columns, statues.
The marriage of these diverse images creates a series of ‘states’ of a cyclical nature, where the former ‘state’ is giving birth to the latter. The aim was to create a play of forms and ‘states of being’; of a creature continuously mutating through the constant exposure to others, whilst simultaneously perforoming mundane tasks.The sound that the creature creates was considered again as something organic; always following its mutating form but at the same time having its own logic of gradual unfolding. The sound is designed to follow the one-minute rhythm of the animation composing a seven-minutes video which then repeats itself again resulting to an indefinite number of cycles of audiovisual material. It is a play of forms and modes of being, of converging narratives and metamorphosis.
Sound design was done by Daniel Lea. The sounds featured in this animation were created in his recording studio in a collaborative spirit. Without his conrtibution the piece would not have been the same. The audio part of the piece shares with the visual the ‘same’ nature, while at the same time adds a new ‘echo’ to it.
I should add that the copyright of Muybridge's stills has expired and all his images are in public domain. Evidence for this fact could be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muybr77.jpg
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