METAMORPH - audio visual metamorphose
music: © Todor Todoroff 2008 (SABAM)
video: © Alexander Derben, D-28203 Bremen
Realization :
The visual part of Metamorph, (graphically shown as M3TAMORPH in video or poster), realized with Final Cut Pro X, was combined with the musical composition Dédales (2008) of Todor Todoroff, published at empreintes DIGITALes, Album Univers parallèles in 2019.
Introduction by Alexandre Derben :
This AV project starts in Feb. 2020 with a selection and analysis of Todor´s compositions, taken from the current Album „Univers paralléles“. Finally I selected Dédales for an animation, the first track of the CD. The music appears very organic, the mechanical sounds are excellent for visual implementations and the frequent seemingly random impulses almost invited to animation. A perfect acousmatic piece for the inner eye.
The studies of Todoroff's music piece inspired me for shooting a series of 24 landscape photographies. My visual "organic materials" of earth and mud where chosen for developing abstract forms and energetic flying movements which became associated which the musical expressions of Dédales. The depth and energy of this organic music were crucial for me. But the visual associations were mostly driven by the music title, Dédales, in which I recognized the reference to the metamorphoses and figures of mythology.
The project was completed on April 28, 2020.
Courtesy of empreintes DIGITALes
All rights reserved by Alexander Derben, D-28203 Bremen
PDF documentation: aldemedia.com/downloads/Metamorph-info.pdf