Between Categories
Music, Sound and the Moving Image
Saturday 03 May, 2008 10:00 - 16:00

A symposium with screenings, conversations, talks and performances

While contemporary mainstream cinema, with increasing homogeneity, choreographs the relation between sound and image to add excitement, emotional weight or drama to the proceedings, this symposium looks at alternative ways of viewing sound: as reflective, generative, and as both source and subject matter of the image.

The images and sounds of the city; visual deconstructions of musical performances; the tradition of abstract filmmaking; film and sound as interpretative tools for social or political phenomena – these are some of the topics covered by this short symposium on the relationship of sound to image. It brings together diverse practitioners to examine these topics:

• Filmmakers William Raban and Simon Payne discuss Representation and Self-Reflexivity
• Musician/filmmaker Anton Lukoszevieze and poet Sharon Morris discuss Improvisation and Structure
• Artist/musician David Ryan and documentary filmmaker Andrew Chesher

Admission Free

VENUE: Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art &Design
(entrance via Atterbury Street opposite Tate Britain) Millbank , London. SW1P 4JU

This symposium is presented by Thinking Through Practice in co-operation with ‘Sonic Illuminations’ on May 10th at the BFI presented by the Society for the Promotion of New Music: www.spnm.org.uk/events

Thinking Through Practice explores manifestions of philosophical thinking beyond the academic argument-based text. Can aesthetic practice successfully address philosophical issues or successfully deliver a mode of philosophical investigation?
Thinking Through Practice sets out to identify and investigate practices where the aesthetic and the philosophical are symbiotically related. The project takes the form of a series of public events, with invited speakers, film screenings, workshops or discussions.
The format of the events is dictated by the nature of the practice being presented.