Mitslalim is an audio-visual composition developed through research collaboration between Oded Ben-Tal, Caroline Wilkins, and Rees Archibald. The piece navigates notions of temporal arrangements in visual imagery and sonic material. While both film and music are described as time-based arts, the two disciplines develop markedly different approaches to structuring time.
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33-03-1786
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- J - Composition
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- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Mitslalim is an audio-visual composition developed through research collaboration between Oded Ben-Tal, Caroline Wilkins, and Rees Archibald. The piece navigates notions of temporal arrangements in visual imagery and sonic material. While both film and music are described as time-based arts, the two disciplines develop markedly different approaches to structuring time. This may relate to both cultural differences and modes of consumption as well as differences in perceptual mechanisms that underpin vision and audition. Mitslalim is an artistic exploration of the individual temporal dispositions of each of the two modalities, as well as their shifting relationship. Viewers/listeners are invited to attend to non-linear temporality, choosing their own path through the enfolding experience of the piece.
The creative/research process was collaborative and interactive. Ben Tal composed the vocal line and designed the electronic processing. Wilkins adapted excerpts from Zaum poetry for the text. The video material was collected by the collaborators in the studio through creative experimentation with the placement of the lights and camera, and the choreography. The video was edited in relation to the audio recording through an iterative cycle between Rees and Ben Tal.
The title is a play on the affinity, in Hebrew, between the words for sound (tslil) and shadow (tsel). If the word existed in Hebrew it might mean 'sonorities of shadows'. It was premiered on 1st April 2014 at Polytexno in Corfu, Greece. Subsequently it was presented both nationally and internationally: Bath Fringe Art Festival (23 & 5-8/6/14), Open Circuit Festival, Liverpool (23/10/14), Granada, Spain (19-23/5/15), and at the Diffrazione festival, Florence, Italy (25/11/16). Mitslalim was awarded a special mention at the 4th edition of the MuVi competition - Video and Moving Image on Synesthesia and Visual Music (16-19.05.15), Alcalea la Real, Spain.
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