Project

Jérôme Combier and Tadzio have conceived a video and sound installation, associating music and architecture. The junction point chosen between sound and images is light, or more precisely, the solar radiation data (and their evolution) of the day Tadzio captured the images presented in this series. This collected data have then been musically reinterpreted in a structural paraphrase, to accompany the light variations of the photographs.

Image:

For Conditions of Light, photographs of the “Architectures” series by Tadzio are brought to life through temporal variations of light. These variations match the actual light conditions of the day of the shooting, from dawn till dusk. From this solar radiation data (source: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), recreating the light curve on a given point of the globe and on a particular date, is possible. From an initial photograph, an ensemble of 60 images is produced by artificially varying the light. A video is made by reassembling these pictures, recreating a form of movement and duration from an instantaneous snapshot. This protocol is replicated for several pictures, and a set of short videos is generated (about 1 minute each). Tadzio’s visual work is complemented by a series of musical interludes, written on the same principle of variations.

Music:

The music written by Jérôme Combier, echoing Tadzio’s videos, is based on the same solar radiation survey. The variations are reinterpreted by putting into perspective time and a movement of fluid and continuous intervals like a large glissando. Gliding sounds are thus created, either ascending or descending from a certain point and coming back to it, as in primal obscurity. The sounds used are synthetic, but are close to the gliding sound of string instruments, to the breath of flutes, neither one nor the other exactly, at the brink of erasure. Time thus seems to flow continuously, but more densely.

Each video is associated to its own soundtrack, but all soundtracks can be superimposed. A polyphony is born from the coexistence of images.

Programme

Tadzio & Ensemble CAIRN