Robert Curgenven : Submerged Memories

ROBERT CURGENVEN

SUBMERGED MEMORIES
(or Von Krapp’s Lost Trap)

Comme le transfert d’une video Youtube en fichier audio, qui nous propulserait quelque part entre Bad Lip Reading et Harmonizator et destituerait à l’avance tout sentiment dramatique ou toute velléité de publication, le mix concocté pour webSYNradio a pour projet de transformer le deuxième pire film de Steven Seagal , “Submerged”, en entrecoupant et imbriquant  son phrasé tout en chuchotement et en nuance narrative avec les temps subtils et inédits des “Triadic Memories” de Morton Feldman, le tout sous l’horizon sombre mais plein d’espoir de «Daikan» de Thomas Koener .
Le résultat : entre Beckett,  The Music of Sound,  the Hearts of Darkness et Apocalypse Now, ce pur joyau radiophonique perdu d’avance inaugure  un tout nouveau genre de film, le film d’Inaction.
Comme “Attack Force “, pire film de Seagal, celui ci a été complètement réécrit et réédité après le tournage, et de larges séquences (la plupart) de son dialogue ont été doublées par un autre acteur dans le style caractéristique de Seagal.
Cette édition radiophonique pour webSYNradio conserve la pureté de cette intention tout en faisant bifurquer l’intrigue dans de nouvelles directions jusqu’alors inconnues où elle n’est plus obligée de respecter la cohérence imposée par le déroulement visuel.
De la même façon qu’on regarderait le Magicien d’OZ  sur le “Dark Side of the Moon” des Pink Floyd, les différents éléments de ce mix sont largement inédits pour préserver les parallèles dramaturgiques qui impulsent de multiples récits et pour engager une tentative de transposition inédite de la théorie de Tarkovsky sur la «pression du temps» en  «pression sonore». La différence importante avec «Dark Side of the moon» est que Feldman, comme la mayonnaise, va avec tout…
“Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.” – Steven Seagal

Synopsis
Remontant la rivière et traversant les ténèbres vers la folie d’un homme, une série de personnages se faisant passer pour Steven Seagal doit se battre avec une meute de chèvres équipées de Laser-Eyes, leur chef Président George Clinton et un alligator en caoutchouc nommé “Dr Cody Sandro-Campbell” tandis que Morton Feldman fait ce qu’il peut pour sauver l’intrigue. Ensemble, ils doivent échapper à la forteresse de leurs souvenirs enfouis («The Sub») tout en prenant le contrôle du cerveau des chèvres, dans une lutte sans merci contre le temps et contre eux-mêmes pour maintenir les digues qui menacent de rompre et empêcher l’Ennemi invisible d’emporter leur santé mentale.
Oeuvre radiophonique.
Soundtrack de Thomas Koener.
Scènes de combat coordonnées par un ivrogne de 3 ans.
Intrigue tordue (incluant “a night at the opera”) qui doit être vue pour être crue.

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In a post-Youtube reappropriation of video as audio which lies somewhere between Bad Lip Reading and a Harmonizator radio play deliberately frustrating any sense of dramatic tension or release, the following mix transforms Steven Seagal’s second worst movie, “Submerged”, where his whispered semantics and obfuscation of narrative nuance is repeatedly interjected and undercut by the subtle and unedited timings of Morton Feldman’s “Triadic Memories”, accompanied by Thomas Koener’s bleak yet hopeful sonic horizon “Daikan”. Part Beckett, part subversion of The Music of Sound, part transformation of Hearts of Darkness and one man’s own Apocalypse Now, this lost tape gem transforms the parts into a new whole and a new film genre, the Inaction movie.
As with Seagal’s worst film. “Attack Force”, this film was completely rescripted and re-edited after shooting and large portions (most) of his dialogue were dubbed by another actor in Seagal’s distinctive style. This radio-play edition for websynradio preserves the purity of that intent whilst taking the plot in new and hitherto unknown directions where it would otherwise be forced to remain coherent when heard alongside the movie’s visual aspects.
In a similar fashion to watching “Wizard of Oz” simultaneously with Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”, the different elements in this mix are largely unedited to preserve the dramaturgical parallels which propel the multiple narratives and also the equal purity of Tarkovsky’s theory of “time pressure” to coexist and inform e a freshly nuanced dimension of ‘sound pressure.’ An important difference with “Dark Side…” is that Feldman, like mayonnaise, goes with everything.
“Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.” – Steven Seagal

Synopsis
Travel up the river to one man’s madness through hearts of darkness as a series of people impersonating Steven Seagal must do battle with a crack team of Goats with Laser-Eyes, their Leader President George Clinton and a rubber Alligator named “Dr Cody Sandro-Campbell” while Morton Feldman stages an intervention to save the plot. Together they must escape the prisons of their submerged memories (“The Sub”) while subverting the Goats’ mind control machines in a struggle against time and themselves as they fight to stop the dam-wall that holds back their collective sanity from being blown up by an unseen enemy. Soundtrack by Thomas Koener, fight scenes co-ordinated by a drunk 3 year old in a radio play with a plot twist (featuring a night at the opera) that has to be seen to be believed.

 

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Robert Curgenven est un artiste australien vivant à Cork, en Irlande, qui sculpte l’air avec du son. Son travail utilise le son comme un champ physique de perceptions pour nous encourager à vivre l’expérience physique du son à travers notre corps. Il présente son travail au cours de performances en direct, d’installations et des albums parus sur des labels tels que LINE, The Tapeworm, Winds Measure et ses propres Editions Recorded Fields.
Robert Curgenven a présenté ses œuvres sonores, audiovisuelles et sculpturales à de nombreuses occasions, notamment à Transmediale (Berlin), 10 years of Microsound (Galerie Diapason, New York), National Film & Sound Archive (Australie) et différents lieux dans toute l’Australie et l’Europe.
Dernier album paru, Robert Curgenven – Climata (Recorded Fields Editions)

“Curgenven makes the point that sounds are fundamental to our perception of the world… hearing the complexities of a place and time is intersected by memories of the familiar which are in turn displaced and transformed.” Realtime Magazine (AUS)
Robert Curgenven is an Australian artist living in Cork, Ireland who sculpts air with sound. His work uses sound as a physical field of perception to encourage us to consider our physical experience of sound through our bodies, the space they inhabit and also the psychological shaping of time and duration by the auditory. For him sound is weather and his work entreats us to feel and hear air. His live performances, installations and album releases span pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings from remote areas in Australia where he lived for many years. The Wire surmises that “behind the music lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue.”

From beginnings 35years ago as a classically trained organist the past ten years have seen him release work on labels such as LINE, The Tapeworm, Winds Measure and his own Recorded Fields Editions. Curgenven has performed extensively across Australia and Europe, including Maerzmusik festival (Berlin), TodaysArt festival (Den Haag), Ultrahang Festival (Budapest), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Cork Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film/Music Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk), Leipzig Gallery for Cont. Art, Northern Territory Centre for Cont. Art (Darwin) as well as residencies in Milan (O’), Venice (Forte Marghera), Rotterdam (Worm), Berlin (Transit Lounge) and Alice Springs (Art/Land/Culture). He has presented sound, audiovisual and sculptural work in group exhibitions for Transmediale (Berlin), 10 Years of Microsound (Diapason Gallery, New York), National Film & Sound Archive (Australia) and galleries throughout Australia & Europe including National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) and a solo exhibition at Centre for Contemporary Art, Torun (Poland).

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