With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white
microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged,
epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations
drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is
relentless and unsentimental. Each new section presents
a variation on the same sleek, kinetic minimalism. As each
section progresses, the razor-sharp line between a host
of binary oppositions - black/white, figure/ground, silence/
sound, here/there, on/off - dissolves through sheer
velocity. The rapid-fire alternations between these binary
oppositions acts like the flicker of film frames, accelerating
until sound and sight are wed into a synchronous whole
in which neither the visual nor the sonic takes primacy.
Instead, each acts as mutually constitutive literalisation
of the other. As the distance from eye to ear collapses,
the distinction between the immediacy of one's physical
sensation and its ghostly afterimage - those traces left
on blistered corneas and eardrums and optic nerves and
neurons - can no longer be maintained. Staccato pin-pricks of light and frequency fuse into a single synesthetic
object and single overwhelming experience.
- Joseph Clayton Mills
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New album due out this autumn. A collaboration between Tim Wright and Monika Naceva.
"I was invited to take part in the "Decadence Now" exhibition taking place in the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague from the 29th of September. I decided to record a whole album and to create a live performance from that." Naceva
Since the exhibition concerns decadence in an international context, Naceva spoke to British sound experimenter and producer Tim Wright (Tube Jerk, Germ, Sand..). The music was put together in Tim's home town of York, England during the spring and early summer of 2010.
This will be the first Naceva album to contain no texts from the novelist Jahym Topol. This time the lyrics are based entirely on her adaptations of the writings of the Czech modern and decadent 19th century poets and the words of William Blake. A recording has emerged full of decadent poetry and experimental sound; a fusion of rich, emotional vocals with vintage analogue synthesisers and algorithmic musical structures. The Sick Rose is an expression of two musical personalities: Naceva and Tim Wright.
more details to follow.
On Friday 14th November Opera North are presenting new soundtracks for five American silent short films as past of the Leeds Film Festival. Tim has contributed the soundtrack for "The Bridge" (dir. Charles Vidor 1929) for electronics and solo cello. Details can be found here.
On Sunday 16th November Tim will be premiering a new electronic audio-visual work at wounded furniture, Guthlaxton College, Station Road, Wigston near LEicester. Details can be found here.
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