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Revelation6 is a live, real-time audiovisual electronic performance, recorded in 2006. All video and audio processing is being performed and produced in real-time on the same machine, with no editing, processing or animation performed beforehand.

The piece is inspired by the relationship between religion and violence, exploring parallels between the two opposing sides of the current global east/west conflict. It draws on images and sounds taken from a few hours Television during summer 2006, acquired by Ben Burgess.

Mick Grierson on Revelation6:

“This was the last time I produced a piece that was born out of uncontrollable anger. At the time, the anger was twofold - first, I was angry that as a race we seem to be chained to faith, due to a total inability to comprehend the complexities of the universe, and secondly, that no-one wants to face up to this - because actually, we can’t. I’m a little more forgiving about the situation now. Mostly.”

Revelation6 was produced using Mick Grierson’s Mabuse prototype live audiovisual composition environment, and features Daniel Herbert on Oboe.

This podcast is a compilation of three works by Mick Grierson.

“These pieces were completed between 2002 and 2004. Each work is a real-time recording - all video and audio processing is performed, produced and controlled in real-time.

Beautiful Human Canon, is being shown here for the first time. This was my second real-time audiovisual performance (the first being the hour long performance, remoteControl (2001)), and very much inspired by Stan Brakhage. At the time, technical errors in the production degraded its quality and impact, resulting in the piece being archived after its first outing. It was originally performed in surround, but is being reproduced here in stereo. Looking back, I’m proud of this piece, as the real-time polyphonic time-stretching synthesis was a cool achievement back in 2002. Also, it’s a technique which is I really relate to as a composer, and one that I think represents my desired sound world perfectly.

Structure Interne and Third World Warhol, are much better known, both having had numerous outings at festivals and screenings in England and Europe. Structure Interne demonstrates abstraction through synthesis, whilst Third World Warhol concentrates on algorithmic audiovisual sampling techniques. Both pieces are deeply politically charged, despite the high level of abstraction.”

You can read more about the final two pieces in the NOISEFILM STORE.

Tianjin Kyofusho : A video piece based on the supposedly culturally specific Japanese phobia of uncontrollable social harm.

Tianjin Kyofusho is a paranoid belief that the sufferer may be unable to stop themselves causing harm to others. Thought to come about through the imposition of social structures on free-thinking individuals, tianjin kyofusho  manifests itself as compulsive behaviour designed to prevent the sufferer from coming into close contact with other humans, with the sole purpose of preventing others from experiencing harm as a result of the sufferer’s own violence.

The extracts are named thus:

1. Rue le Mind
2. Cristo de cerdo
3. In the Knife Garden
4. Passage du Livre du vent
5. Jesus nass meine Lippen mit Kuchen
6. Singe Fister
7. Ossuary
8. The boy I would kill
9. Culo Niña en el Campo
10. Schweiß Passage
11. Homage to Bunuel
12. Tianjin Kyofusho

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Noisefilm has been re-designed to prepare for a series of new works. Old releases, including Mabuse project,
From Honey to Ashes and works by Mick Grierson are being repackaged. DVD’s are still available.

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