Month: November 2020

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Chungking Express

lovesick image enclosed in two stories told in sequence

two different people whose obsession over old lover unable them to live freely and at the same time force them to look constantly for another toxic, blind love.

Soundtrack which accompany each story is not diverse but the same comes for character’s love stories, trying to overcome toxic addiction to ex-lover and therefore trying to fall in love with someone new, who at the end will leave them for someone/something else like previous partner. It could be almost said that one song in particular leads us through narration.

In the first part image is blurry, dark and is the sound based on strings interrupted by clarinet played in high notes, creating some kind of disturbance in constancy of the main sound line.

The second part focuses on changing and dreaming about going to California. The lead song for this story unsurprisingly is “California dreamin'”. Not only the whole atmosphere of this part is casual and stable but as well melody created by The Mamas&The Papas makes it even more loose.

based on Kar-Wai Wong’s “Chungking Express”

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at least partly audible

Not everything is always in our hands. Unwanted events happen all the time no matter how hard we try to make things go perfect. But is it a bad thing when it comes to art work?

When everything is on the point without any blemishes it can lose its color, its unpredactibility. When audience make breathing noises or start sniffling they give their own presence into act, they give life and they bring their own experience into the viewing of your piece ,making it something new, something which wasn’t intended from the beginning. They will all be able to hear something else and go through this experience in completely new way.

John Cage in his work called “4’33” created space for silence, room for the audience to bring piece of themself and therefore be part of this art work. This three movement composition can be presented with any instrument or instruments but they are only background to the sounds of the environment which creates the real creation. Not everything is about what we can see or hear. Sometimes what is more important is what we feel, imagine in our head or simply us. Different personalities, different experiences create tones of alternative ways of perception. People can look at the same exact monument, can hear the same piece of the sound ,but who they are inside and what they bring with them to experience this art work, will make them perceiving it in completely distinctive ways.

So putting on others specific way of reception or understanding our art work, is really what we want to achieve?

based on “4’33” by John Cage

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faceshopping

SOPHIE’s “Faceshopping” seems to be basing mostly on metallic, raw sounds which give futuristic, mechatronic vibe. Work starts with calm SOPHIE’s voice just to be, in a moment, interrupted by synth-heavy beat. Subsequently melody change into dreamy, light tone with very distinctive sound of magic bells, followed by words: “So you must be one I see in my dreams…” which draws receiver’s attention in personal and direct way. Created by SOPHIE composition is fascinating both because of using contrary sounds ,which are balancing together very well, and fact that listening to only 4 minutes-long work can give us such a variety of feelings. “Faceshopping” is perfect example of distortion of simple, uniform tone using ,opposite to each other, sounds.