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THE MALAISE OF MODERNITY [2018]
NO.3 - Antonioni: Anxiety

Extracts from the following films:

- Red Desert [1964] dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Music [IMDB]: Giovanni Fusco • Vittorio Gelmetti
Sound Department [IMDB]: Mario Bramonti • Renato Cadueri • Claudio Maielli

- L'Eclisse [1962] dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Music [IMDB]: Giovanni Fusco 
Sound Department [IMDB]: Mario Bramonti • Renato Cadueri • Claudio Maielli

"We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other." [Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents p.77]

A Cinema of Noise collection exploring the film works of:

- Hiroshi Teshigahara [1927-2001]
- Michelangelo Antonioni [1912-2007]
- Film Noir

More information: www.rszoniq.com/sound/#/modernity/

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The Malaise of Modernity

The Malaise of Modenity #3 - Antonioni: Anxiety [2018]

THE CYBERPUNK SUITE [2018]: Touching and Imagining - The early films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Shozin Fukui.

More information: www.rszoniq.com/sound/#/cyberpunk/

Extracts from:

- Tetsuo: Iron Man [1989] / Credits [IMDB] Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto / Sound: Unknown / Music: Chu Ishikawa 

- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992] / Credits [IMDB] Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto / Sound: Unknown / Music: Chu Ishikawa 

- Caterpillar [1988] / Credits [IMDB] Dir: Shozin Fukui / Sound and Music: Shozin Fukui

- 964 Pinocchio [1991] / Credits [IMDB] Dir: Shozin Fukui / Sound: Unknown [Fukushima Studio?] / Music: Hiroyuki Nagashima 	

- Rubber's Lover [1996] / Credits [IMDB] Dir: Shozin Fukui / Sound: Akihiko Suzuki, Unknown [Fukushima Studio?] / Music: Tanizaki Tetora 

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The Cyberpunk Suite #7 - Salaryman [2018]

The Cyberpunk Suite #6 - Metamorphosis part II [2018]

The Cyberpunk Suite #5 - Himiko in the city [2018]

The closing track of Khidja & Balabas's new release on Malka Tuti.
Coming out 16/11
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Khidja & Balabas - KOMAGOME

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Khidja & Balabas - Mos Ene

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Khidja & Balabas - Chloe

As we learn more about the shocking facts of the effects of pollution on our health it is important that we listen to the young people. 

Earlier this year I devised a project called Young Lungs that gave voice to the thoughts, anxieties, hopes and solutions to children who attend William Pattern a primary school in North London. I think your listeners would be interested in hearing what they have to say. 

The Young Lungs Sound piece is a 13 minute stereo piece combining interviews, field recordings, voice performance and sound processing, and can be heard at this link.

Young Lungs

Shinjuku

Quiet London
Greenwich, London, April 19th 2020

The city is quiet, London in lockdown. An early morning riverside recording. Nothing particularly special. A few ducks, passing birds, a runner here and there, a bit of traffic, some distant skyline noise, the odd splash of water...

The nearest airport to where this recording was made is London City airport which, according to its website, only operates flights from 12:30pm on Sundays. London Stansted airport however permits normal flight operations to commence on Sundays from 6:30am. This recording was made around 7:00am on Sunday April 19th during the lockdown restrictions on flights and general traffic across the country. I will assume therefore that what I’m hearing here is in fact a quieter space; a soundscape marked by a noticeable lack of audible air traffic over this part of London. I’m assuming this because I don’t possess a recording of this location made before the lockdown to compare this one to. But everything about my lockdown experience so far suggests that I have been in fact experiencing a quieter city.

As lockdown measures have come into effect in urban areas throughout the world, residents have reported a noticeable difference in the sounds they are now hearing around them. In the absence of background traffic both in the air and on the ground, bird song suddenly feels more present and the sounds of our neighbourhood more noticeable - children playing nearby, music, television sets and the weekly cacophony of claps and communal pot banging.

It feels like our listening habits, the way we’re able to focus our auditory attention to extract information from the world around us, is being shaped by the changing sound environment we now find ourselves experiencing. It’s not only that the world outside feels quieter, but that we ourselves are listening in a different way. Birds are not only singing because the quieter atmosphere permits them to, but have been reported to be singing louder -  especially the case during the mating months of early spring. 

In the absence of background traffic noise greater environmental detail is revealed. At the same time this allows us to attune ourselves to the world in order to listen out for such details.

What we might have here is an example of how the environment can radically alter the way we experience the world around us, and in doing so reveal an opportunity for understanding and knowledge that was previously concealed. 

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Pandemic Intermission: Quiet London, Sunday April 19th 7am [2020]

Film Sound Edits and Collages 2016-2020
Sound and Music in the Cinema Space
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