CLINKER LIVE CINEMA | CURRENT

CLINKER | ON THE OTHER SIDE...
2008 | 2009

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.

This piece can also be punctuated with musical adaptations of some of Clinker’s favorite Cohen songs featuring special guest virtuoso guitarist and recording artist, Les Robot. This on-stage collaboration together draws on both artist’s penchant for post-future musical arrangement.




The Live Performance...

On the Other Side... is a "live" performance that can be presented both as a self-contained Clinker Live Cinema OR extended as a vocal/guitar duo. As a duo CLINKER is joined on-stage by virtuoso guitarist LES ROBOT. Together they perform wonderfully experimental versions of selected Cohen songs which serve the work conceptually and bookend the piece.



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 this years summit.

The positive response this work has received since its premiere in July continues to fuel Clinkers interest in developing and touring this piece further into 2009.

Running Time:42:00 - 60:00 minutes
with musical accompaniment approximately 52 minutes

Clinker will be touring On the Other Side throughout 2009...
If you are interested in booking a performance please contact Clinker HERE

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CLINKER LIVE CINEMA | PREVIOUS WORKS

CLINKER | PROVODY
2006 | 2007
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PROVODY is an emotive journey through five movements of varying intensity that are both kinesthetic and synesthetic agents - an ode to life cycles with a few surprises.

PROVODY - LIVE CINEMA
CLINKER’s Provody began as a commissioned audio piece for Vague Terrain's Digital Arts Journal 2006 feature on Minimalism. In 2007 it evolved into a full Live Cinema with a focus on creating a live synchresis between audio-visual events with no pre-programmed computer or MIDI synching. All A/V “connections” were made possible organically through the use of various layering/phasing/video mixing technics and unique to this piece, vocal microphone “pulses” - which triggered real-time video effects.



Provody is a Ukrainian (Orthodox) ritual for “the blessing of the graves.” I first became aware of this from my girlfriend Tamara whose family gathers annually to pray, remember and pay homage to relatives that have passed on. She describes her personal experience with this as an emotional journey. I titled my latest work "Provody" because I feel a parallel between this ritual and the flow of emotions... reverie, sadness, loneliness, anger, loss, joy, peace, healing, contentment... one goes through at different stages of one’s life. I feel cleansed after listening to it.

Gary James Joynes - 2006

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CLINKER | MUTEK
2003

Clinker was officially born with this self-titled Live AV performance created especially for the 2003 MUTEK Festival.

In May 2003 CLINKER made his premiere outside his native Alberta in Montreal, where he shared the stage with two luminaries of ambient drone, Thomas Köner and Asmus Tietchens.

This would turn out to be years before the phrase "Live Cinema" came to describe the art form as it is now defined.

CLINKER
LIVE CINEMA | AV PERFORMANCE

CLINKER’s Live Cinema creates a live synchresis between audio-visual events which reside in the moment. No computer or MIDI synching is used in the genesis of these events.

All A/V “connections” are live and are made possible organically through the use of live layering / phasing / triggering techniques.

Clinker’s interest is focused on the creation of a truly unique experience for each audience member using the brains natural ability to “connect the dots.”

All vocals and harmonies are performed and layered live in concert.

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PERFORMANCES | DATES

2009



ON THE OTHER SIDE...

MUTEK_10 FESTIVAL
Nocturne 2 Program
Metropolis Theatre (Savoy Room)
Ambient Drone Soundscape Showcase
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Montreal, Canada
Website


SONIC BOOM! 2009
Featuring
Clinker "On the Other Side..." Live Cinema
with special guest Les Robot
Jackson 2Bears
Adam Tindale
Presented by EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society
Friday, March 20, 2009, 9 - 11pm
TELUS World of Science Discovery Dome Theatre
701 - 11 Street S.W.
Calgary Space Science Centre


2008

2008 INTERACTIVE SCREEN 8.0
The Banff Centre | BNMI
August 25, 2008
Banff Centre Telus Studio Theatre
Website

2008 INTERNATIONAL
LEONARD COHEN FESTIVAL
July 25, 2008
July 27, 2008 (Two Performances)
Rice Theatre in the Citadel - Edmonton, AB
Website

2007

PROVODY

NEW FORMS FESTIVAL 2007 | VANCOUVER
September 12, 2007
Scotia Bank Dance Centre
Website

Ben Neville | Erin Sexton | Ryan Stec
Pika and Pixel_Shift | Clinker presents PROVODY


MUTEK FESTIVAL | MONTREAL
A/Visions 1
MAY 30, 2007 @ Ex-Centris
Website

Clinker | Boris & Brecht Debackere
Randy Jones | Semiconductor

Dedicated to the burgeoning digital art form known as Live Cinema, the A/VISIONS 1 program brings together internationally renowned artists who specialize in the articulation of sound and images in the context of live performance. A special showcase dedicated to the cutting edge of experimental film.


ELECTROLLS II
Edmonton's Ambient Music
March 16th, 2007
Whitemud Crossing Library Theatre
Website

Clinker presents Provody | Mark Templeton
Comaduster | Nannou | DJ Wijit

2003



MUTEK FESTIVAL 2003 | MONTREAL
Ex-Centris 1 Program
MAY 28, 2007 @ Ex-Centris

Christof Migone | Clinker
Thomas Köner & Asmus Tietchens Kontakt der Jünglinge

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LIVE CINEMA | DEFINITION

The term “Live Cinema“ has hitherto been used primarily to describe the live musical accompaniment of silent movies. But that was yesterday. “Live Cinema“ today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate to elaborate concepts on equal terms. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.

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