Film: SOUNDING ORNAMENTS: EXPERIMENTS WITH OPTICAL SOUND (Registration Required)

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 - 8:00pm

Age: 
All Ages

On a celluloid film print, even sound is made of light. Running alongside the picture is the optical soundtrack, an image in itself. A beam of light penetrates it, exciting a photoelectric cell with its sound determined by the pattern of black and white. Ever since sound first joined film, artists have turned their eye to this strip which is most frequently the site of pre-recorded music and sound. Sounding Ornaments presents films which use the optical track and the projector as their sonic instruments.

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