"End Of Summer features falsetto voices, bowed cello, feedback tones, synth drones and various electronics, blending and melting into each other's timbres. Robert Lowe is involved in "Part 1" and "Part 3", the latter with multi-tracked harmonic lines utilising nasal intonations to accent frequencies in waves of filtered resonance."
"The project can be historically traced to Stan Brakhage's pure abstraction of natural phenomena. His stylistics have been influential on a billion music videos and LP covers since: languorous, sensual, distressed, textural, layered, blurred, fawning, evocative, meditative, elegiac."
"Jóhann Jóhannsson's short video End Of Summer (2014) is freighted with emotion, affect and loss. It captures his short time spent on the South Georgia island and the Antarctic Peninsula, shot on the last roll of decaying Super 8 stock."
End Of Summer is a short video documenting Jóhannsson's time on South Georgia island and the Antarctic Peninsula, filmed on decaying Super 8 stock. The deteriorated footage is paired with a five-part musical suite composed and performed by Jóhannsson alongside Hildur Guðnadóttir and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. The work employs distressed film aesthetics tracing back to Stan Brakhage's abstract natural phenomena and Bill Morrison's Decasia. The accompanying music features falsetto vocals, bowed cello, feedback, synth drones, and electronics that blend together. Robert Lowe contributes multi-tracked harmonic lines with nasal intonations in parts one and three, creating a Nordic quasi-liturgical quality reminiscent of Lutheran congregational observance, evoking themes of remembrance and mourning through sensorial image degradation.
#experimental-music #distressed-film-aesthetics #landscape-consciousness #nordic-liturgical-aesthetics #audiovisual-art
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