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Duncan Chapman - Mode 5 Down the Mountain

from Drone Cinema Film Festival: Selected Works, Volume 1 by Various Artists

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Mode 5 Down the Mountain: In 2014 I was working at the Verbier Waveshaper is part of a series based on electromagnetism and
Festival in Switzerland leading composition projects with young its shapeshifting qualities. In these works, Kwan adapts familiar
musicians. On my day off the weather was against me and I found media portals such as televisions and radios for their readymade
myself at the top of the hill in rain with fog closing in all around. transduction of electromagnetic signals into light and sound. In
Somewhat dismayed I boarded the Telecabine at Savoleyres to go Waveshaper, Kwan uses a basic audio function generator to drive
back to the village dangled the microphone of my recorder out of the inputs of a television to produce the visual and auditory
the window and recorded the journey. All the material comes from patterning. The complex wave properties interact with
this recording with the addition of synthesised drones and images electromagnetic deflections within the raster imaging system,
generated from the spectral content of the sound. creating a weaving of sound and light.
“Mode 5” refers to Messiaen’s Modes of limited transposition used
to select pitches.

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from Drone Cinema Film Festival: Selected Works, Volume 1, released November 4, 2016

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