Hubertus von Amulenxen: Lecture 5

Diachrony vs. Synchrony

1917 Maray's sequential separated durational movements in one image.
1958 Philips Pavillion at World Fair in Brussels. "Poeme Elecronique":
Edgar Varese asked to collaborate with architect Xenakis. 8 min. composition, 400 loud speakers embedded in the roof. spatial-time relation, projection of colors, writing, history of mankind on the roof. sound-image-time.

Peter Kubelka. 1960. metric film. based purely on rhythm of b&w frames. "Arm of Rainer"
Jonas Mekas
Vortex Group, 1917. gathered around Ezra Pound. Christopher Coburn, Steiglitz
1911 microbe film. USA.
Hollis Framptom "Vegetable Locomotion".
Henri Michaux. Mescaline drawings & writings.
John Cage's "Two Steps"
Nam Jun Paik

Piscador--One of the first to bring cinema on stage. synchronized temporal and spatial illusion of the play. gesture is repeated to propel something else.

Mel Bockner
McCall "Light Describing A Cone."
Pierre Buolez "The Fold"

(Can freedom be guided?)

Xenakis' ACHORRIPSIS--> sound as being rebounded.

Frederick Kielser, Austrian-American architect. "A Manifesto Of Co-Realism", "The Endless House". (guided freedom) The house endlessly unravels "because all ends meet and meet continuously." The infinite is finite and yet remains infinite.

Wachsmann: time--> movement--> energy.

Peter Eisenman: "Cardboard Architecture" evolved from the cube.