The research concerned with the MA/MFA program, which I am currently studying on, started as a follow up to my dissertation on my undergraduate course. A project concerned with the realm of early filmic production, specifically within use of sound. I am seeking therefore at first to correct a balance in a lack of theoretical or philosophical knowledge on my part. I began by researching the specific time periods with which I was concerned with during the writing of my dissertation, namely the introduction of synchronous sound within mainstream cinema. Then moving outwards concerning myself with the definite moving away from common practice, within the Avant Garde movements which followed, or premised in many case’s, techniques of artistic use in order to stand away from and to comment upon associations of the more common filmic product.
It is my intention to create through the use of ideas gained while studying theoretical knowledge, the practical element of my project, which will be a series of short abstract based montage films set to music, and compiled into a final product. The finished artifact being of importance toward the viewer, in order to ascertain what the ideas and reasons for the music and visual elements are, and how their interaction of perception is mobilized in interpreting it. I will also seek to send my work to prospective partners, generally music industry based, intending to promote the product through live performance, comprising of audio and visual productions synched with a fair different manner of effects and concepts coming together, in what I hope to be a interesting and engaging performance, removed from the traditional live ‘gig’ situation and traditional modes of address.
