ON THE OTHER SIDE…
ON THE OTHER SIDE… (Live Cinema)
Single Channel HD Video / 2-Channel Audio / Live Audio-Visual Performance
2008 – 2011
Performances:
ART IGNITE ALLUMAGE FESTIVAL | Kingston, Ontario, Canada | February 2, 2013
KOFFLER CENTRE OF THE ARTS | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | September 25, 2011
ELECTRIC FIELDS FESTIVAL | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | November 5, 2010
SONIC AV (Reprise for Edmonton) | Edmonton, Canada | Stanley Milner Library Theatre | September 25, 2010
MCMF 2010 – MOUNTAIN COMPUTER MUSIC FESTIVAL | University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA, | September 10, 2010
ROULETTE MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL | NEW YORK | SOHO, New York, NY, USA | May 13, 2010
(((SOUNDWAVE))) FESTIVAL | Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, BC | July 11, 2009
MUTEK_10 FESTIVAL | Metropolis Theatre (Savoy Room) | Montreal, Canada | May 28, 2009
SONIC BOOM! | TELUS World of Science Discovery Dome Theatre | Calgary Space Science Centre |March 20, 2009
INTERACTIVE SCREEN 8.0 | Banff Centre Telus Studio Theatre | August 25, 2008
INTERNATIONAL LEONARD COHEN FESTIVAL | Rice Theatre in the Citadel | Edmonton, AB | July 25 & 27, 2008
Clinker’s “On the Other Side…” explores Cohen’s continued romance with the light and dark inside our human experience. An audio-visual “deep listening” environment which draws from the vast depths of emotion written into the words and music of Leonard Cohen.
The lush bass tones of Cohen’s voice provide a point of departure for our journey inside Clinker’s cinema of sound and light. Drawing from years of experience in creating and manipulating music and audio, Clinker deconstructs and reassembles Cohen’s voice into surreal “bass-scapes” using his unique and sophisticated system of analogue and digital electronics. Clinker’s creation will bathe the audience in an array of Cohen’s “golden” vocal chords augmented with a connection between sonic and visual details. Specially designed sub-sonic sound frequencies (created from Cohen’s voice itself) reinforce the experience of extreme sound-movement through the body.
On the Other Side… was originally commissioned by the 2008 International Leonard Cohen Festival and appropriates Cohen’s words and bass voice as a departure point into a deep listening audio-visual experience. The piece was also featured at the Banff Centre’s BNMI Interactive Screen 2008 and was considered to be one of the highlights of the 2008 New Media summit.