Jason Swinscoe of The Cinematic Orchestra has long been intrigued by
the link between vision and sound. From TCO’s re-soundtracking of Man
With A Movie Camera, through his “soundtrack to an imaginary film,” Ma
Fleur, to his band’s name itself, Swinscoe has continued to pick away at
the issues and emotions found at this intersection. With In Motion #1
he continues this process by inviting some of his favourite musicians
and producers to provide soundtracks to or musical re-imaginings of
seminal work by great avant-garde film-makers.
Responding to visuals which run from René Clair’s surrealist
classic "Entr’acte" (The Cinematic Orchestra) right up to Peter
Tscherkassky’s “Outer Space” (Dorian Concept & Tom Chant), the
musicians wrote for and worked with a string quartet to create music of
remarkable emotional reach. The results are so vivid, so complex yet
immediate, that they can be enjoyed as freestanding pieces in their own
right.
The first of a series of releases curated by Jason
Swinscoe for Motion Audio, the artists involved run from LA-based
pianist Austin Peralta, through the Grey Reverend in New York, to Dorian
Concept in Austria and Tom Chant and the other members of TCO in
London.
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