2015
Process and Experiment
Through the process of this project, to explore the deeper dimension of the connection between sound and visual, I have collected materials from different sources.
Footage Collecting
During the new year recess, I went back to my hometown initially to spend time with my grandmother and also collect old memories by filming some footage as material for my project editing.
Some of these footages were depicting my childhood memories and were a symbol that reminds me of my grandmother and grandfather.
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Apart from collecting footage by filming, I also explored visualization and narration extracted from the movies mentioned death and farewell A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Portrait of Jennie (1948), and old footage both from online archives and personal footage; the wedding in 1995.
Recording Medium
I recorded piano demos from repertoires that I used for the performance as part of a recording process. This project allows me to explore the possibilities of creating sound to evoke memories and the past. I also collect ingredients besides my piano demos by extracting some quotes and narration from films and songs.
introduction for last salutations
The narration is extracted from the introduction of the film A Matter of Life and Death.
An original sound that I created was to evoke the atmosphere of endless empty space and scattering dust.
interlude for last salutations
The concept for this interlude is to connect the two repertoires by quoting the fact about human curiosity (from Portrait of Jennie) with afterlife ideology (from Phantom Regret by Jim) as we are tuning the radio along with the evocative footage and original sound depicting the past, space, and time.
visual and sound collages
(in order of presence)
Sound narrator extracted from:
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Weeknd - Phantom Regret by Jim (2022)
Original sound (2022)
Footages:
Burton Holmes - Seeing London (ca. 1920)
Original footage (2022)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Coca-Cola Ad - Just waiting for my mother (1941)
Scotties Tissue Ad - Magic Oval Box (ca. 1960)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
regret
Regret is the emotion that I think of the colors that keep changing. They formed as substances that floated in space without any shape.
loop
visual and sound collages
(in order of presence)
Sound extracted from:
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Is there life on other planets? (1962)
Thai Old Advertisements
เกษม ฉายพันธ์ - Thai Radio Program: ขำขัน
Footages:
God Of Creation - A Sermon From Science (1945)
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette (1949)
The Doll Factory’s Assembly Line (1963)
I depict the concept of a loop by compiling a sound from various sources. Initially, the listeners will listen to the song by Jennie Appleton in Portrait of Jennie, and later will be the sound coming from nowhere as we are listening to a different channels at the same time
old footage from mom&dad's wedding, June 17th, 1995
original footage filmed in January 2022
contains last bit of conversations with grandmother
original sounds created from the extract of R. Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe, Op.133
rewind & cherish
Rewind and Cherish are the stages that have the connection based on my understanding. Therefore I created it as a long video that continues from movement to movement.
The stage of Rewind takes the listener back to memories celebrating joy and happiness. The footage of the wedding in 1995 presented my departed ones that still exist at that time, we can see their faces and their movements. The sound I would like to present a pure unedited as to introduce the listeners to joining that ballroom.
The connection to Cherish Stage was the footage of cars from an old video traveling to the present time. The sound for this stage was created from a demo of Schumann's piece, evoking the feeling by the use of reversing to take us back to the present.
empty
In this stage, I depicted the emptiness by the use of high frequencies to symbolize tinnitus in the ears, while the footage was a journey to somewhere.
