Project Ideas
- analog animation
- jazz music
- experience dynamics of an organism
- stop motion/animation
My first Physarum polycephalum
Some thoughts and peripheral thinking about Jazz and Physarum
First thought
Jazz its difficult to define cause contains many sub-genres and improvisation its one of its key elements. / Physarum its also for me difficult to define. Its one of 700 species of slime mold, ist a procaryote organism that in order to function reunites with millions of nuclei to maximise its means.
Second thought
Jazz is essentially a improvisation musik style. It evoques the myth of resistance. Jazz focus on individual freedom and an authentic expression of oneself, as well as the concept of living in the present. / Physarum polycephalum conceive the essence of improvisation for survival. It spreads, seeks for food and in every steep recognise it self with the intention of prevail.
Third thought
Jazz interpretation involves totally recognition of the members of the band. There must be no ego. Every good played sound also depends of the effort from the other musicians. / Physarum is a millions of nuclei organism, all sharing a cell wall, all operating as a single entity. They work in group...
Fourth thought
Jazz its influenced by early forms of blues music, wich is a form of folk music wich arose in part from the work songs of the African-American slave plantations. This songs are structured around a repetitive call-response pattern. / The particularly way that Physarum grows also respond to a repetitive call-response pattern. They go two steeps forward and one backwards, then two forwards and one backwards and so on... They talk to each order und response, then grow...
SOME TEXTS, INSPIRATION AND REFERENCES...
Jazz and Existencialism By MARITHE VAN DER AA [1]
Heather Barnett TEDTalk
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Jazz WIKIPEDIA
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FREE PROJECT: Inflexión
Direction, design and production of a short film/music video for the Jazz band "Jazz the Roots"
JazztheRoots BandCamp Song N. 11 "Inflexión" [4]
ANIMATION_esthetic and concept:
As main concept I have chosen the myth of "the awakening" and its meanings of nature, chance, revelations, natural process, ways of existing, micro decisions and existentialism.
I collect plants and botanic stuff in order to understand and take some inspiration about micro structures and botanic growth processes so I can define aesthetics and animation lines and movements.
I am approaching to the idea of creating a king of Eden garten, some kind of reality that shows symbiotic processes and developing relations between living and non living organisms, the seekness of power and the symbols of symmetry.
I have been seeing the work of artist like:
- Remedios Varo_
"an avid believer in the inter-relatedness of all things and people, including the inter-weave of sound, light and image"[[5]] "video" [6]
- Hyeronimus Bosch_
"The master of the monstrous, the discoverer of the unconscious" Carl G. Jung
Video homage of the musical group Bosco to the painter in his V Centenario. Rafael Alberti's poem "El Bosco" on the details of "The Garden of Delights" that inspired the poet. [8]
- Austin Osman Spare
(30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by symbolism and art nouveau his art was known for its clear use of line, and its depiction of monstrous and sexual imagery.[4] In an occult capacity, he developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. [9]
- Leonora Carrington
La reina de los mandriles
She focused on magical realism and alchemy and used autobiographical detail and symbolism as the subjects of her paintings.