EKK:LoFi Sounds in HiFi Spaces/Mingling sounds/Cornelius Jamilah

"the medium is in the message"

There's immediacy in film and video. We watch content and it registers in our mind as some kind of organized structure. We may not be able to interpret it one way or another but the image is received.

I'm interested in disfluency. When things don't quite add up. It really starts with language and my problem with it. It’s more that we’re conditioned by language and shifting from the common cultural mode of communicating is difficult since most of us have been brought up in a society that favors the external language mode instead of self-contained interior being with your sensations.

In Butoh you are just going deeper. It’s anarchy. You’re just letting things go through you. Most dance and theater is almost always on a word like level. I’m going to become anger—now express it. In Butoh you have the ability to become something without acting it but embodying it in someway.

In general, most people are compelled to find meaning in things classified as performance or art. Our bodies are complex entities and for some reason we neglect our senses. “What does it mean?” I’ve heard in the background from viewers of dance performances, art exhibitions, etc. Spending time watching documentation of performances by the Butoh troupe, Sankai Juku, I realize it defies description—verbal language. As I watch the dancers shift in to and out of and through space, it’s as if my brain is just operating in the mode of image thought and sensory thought, not language thought at all. Zen masters often say that you can’t talk about certain experiences, it’s not ineffable its just too intimate, internal to be restated in anyway.

In regards to transcontinental collaboration--creating true affective experiences can be achieved if that's the goal of the collaborators.

"re: Bill Fontana" It makes me think that space is embodied. To hear a sound that doesn't seem to fit the location would trigger memory--the process of remembering a familiar sound, seeing an image of that sound. It may turn into an affective memory if we give it time. We trace the sound to a place from our past and perhaps relive that memory or experience the moment a little bit deeper. The sonic environment can truly become something new.

"instrument through which sound is transmitted..." The moment becomes uncanny.

Mixed Videos: [1] [2]

Original Videos: [3] [4]