Selected for publication: Sightlines: Film-making in the Academy peer- reviewed online audiovisual journal, issue 1, Australian Screen Production, Education & Research Association website, November 2015:...
moreSelected for publication: Sightlines: Film-making in the Academy peer- reviewed online audiovisual journal, issue 1, Australian Screen Production, Education & Research Association website, November 2015:
http://www.aspera.org.au/research/sightlines/journal-2015/http://www.aspera.org.au/research/sightlines-globus-hystericus/Globus Hystericus
Sightlines Journal, issue 1, 2015
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Author: Tim Howle (music) / Nick Cope (video)
Research statement
Globus Hystericus is an inter-disciplinary collaborative video production between electroacoustic composer Tim Howle (Professor of Contemporary Music, University of Kent) and film-maker Nick Cope (Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University).
The work as revisits and examines Scratch video methodologies within a visual music practice collaboration. This work derives from a body of work which originally featured in the screenings of the 1980s British Scratch Video Art movement, and in which Cope was an early participant. In this piece, off-air footage, initially edited in 1986 to the soundtrack ‘Hypnotised’ by post-punk musician Mark Stewart, was re-worked and re-edited using digital non-linear editing equipment in 2007, when the original analogue footage was finally digitized. Subsequently, this edit has been re-worked in conjunction with a whole new electroacoustic score by Tim Howle. The resultant work explores the visual music potentials of Scratch video that Andy Birtwistle addresses in his book, Cinesonica (2010). The politically driven themes of much Scratch work are also engaged here, the title intended to allude to global hysteria in financial systems, as footage from the stock-market crash of 1929 is intercut with scenes of crowds from a 1980s Open University programme examining mass hysteria, amongst other sources.
Globus Hystericus is the sixth piece in an ongoing collaboration commenced in 2002 between the composer and film-maker exploring the conjunction of electroacoustic composition and creative moving image practice in the production of work where sound and moving image are commensurate.
