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Dear Reader,

Next Saturday 12th of April in Café Kurzschluss, I have the première of a short documentary film, I did during the last 7 months.

Though I’ve been working in digital media for some years, this is my first important video production and therefore my first première. I’m proud, happy and excited to share with all of you this achievement, I’ll be glad to see some of you among the audience.Sproutmovie Documentary film consists of 10 independent short videos united by a interface in DVD format to be navigated and screened in any decided order. It is aimed at giving a view of the atmosphere and sort of projects developed during last summer, in August, on the outskirts of Bremen, in a building near to be torn down. The project was called Sproutbau and here you can follow a thorough information about it: Sproutbau

Date: 12th of April
Time: 8 PM
Address: Lahnstraße 16, Bremen Neustadt: (Yahoo! Map and Google Map)

Yours sincerely

Ricardo.

Sound projects: One minute concept. HfK Bremen 12. 2007

My one minute piece. I took three sound from an old semi-destroyed piano, we had at home in our garage, and then attacked its cords with a piece of wood. I recorded those sound on my laptop, cleaned and normalized them to get them ready to be cut; finally, I extended and distorted them.

My goals here were to explore two core principles of composition in visual arts but in sound: zoom and symmetry. I extended one of my sources of sound from 0.05s to 30s, then equalised it and again extended up to 60s. It is my bass-drowned background. To give space to this background, I use a repetitive loop on top of it with a mechanical texture. The foreground sound is composed on complete symmetry. It starts with a high pitch sound wrapped on a sine-wave form. Then, my central piece of symmetry appears. This sound was split in several pieces that don’t dwell in a stereo space, rather they reside just on one channel either left or right and jump all time from one channel to the other; but they never sound at the same time in both.

Hope you enjoy this one-minute piece.

I recommend listening to it either with a headset or with loudspeakers as far away from each other as possible.

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