My Cinema for the Ears

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Summary: You may never listen to your dog the same way after...
Review: If you dont see the connection between Vivaldi and electroacoustic music, let this film show you how music -and beauty- can be found in pretty much anything, depending on how you look at it.

Trust Uli Aumüller to take you along his humorous, scholarly yet accessible intro to the "musique concrète" of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky. You'll be happy you got to know these two composers who look at, listen to, and love the stuff our lives are made up of. Through this film they'll make you love it too.

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Summary: Happy new ears
Review: My Cinema for the ears - The musique concrète of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky is a 59 minute film by Uli Aumüller. An impressionistic, wryly humorous look at nature and the creative process, the film features two composers Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky - and follows their search for an art, that emanates from their surroundings.

The DVD "My Cinema for the Ears" is in French and English and includes subtitles in French, German and English. Besides the original composition "Un Autre Printemps" commissioned to Francis Dhomont and visualized by the video artist Robert Darroll, this DVD also features the audio tracks of Dhomont's piece "En Cuerdas" and Lansky's "Night Traffic", "Table's Clear" and "Idle Chatter Junior".

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Summary: Happy new ears
Review: My Cinema for the ears - The musique concrète of Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky is a 59 minute film by Uli Aumüller. An impressionistic, wryly humorous look at nature and the creative process, the film features two composers Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky - and follows their search for an art, that emanates from their surroundings.

The DVD "My Cinema for the Ears" is in French and English and includes subtitles in French, German and English. Besides the original composition "Un Autre Printemps" commissioned to Francis Dhomont and visualized by the video artist Robert Darroll, this DVD also features the audio tracks of Dhomont's piece "En Cuerdas" and Lansky's "Night Traffic", "Table's Clear" and "Idle Chatter Junior".

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Summary: To Build a Bridge Between Audio and Image
Review: The arts of music and video are usually developed independently of one another. In popular music, the music video attempts to create a new form, but usually the video part comes only as a secondary effort. How many bands have video artists as members of their group, where the primary creation is really the music video?

In the contemporary music world, however, the chances for a success of this kind improve. "My Cinema for the Ears" is a title which suggests an integration of the creative possibilities within the worlds of eye and ear. Uli Aumüller, director of "Music for 1000 Fingers - Conlon Nancarrow", is a pioneer in the synthesis of this new genre, which may perhaps be considered as an extension of the ideas of "Acousmatic Art" [ Sound created primarily for loudspeaker performance ].

In "My Cinema for the Ears", much of the material is chosen for the fact that both sound and image form a 'third' element, which lives in the domain of video, but does not use the standard syntax of that medium. The source material is chosen from among the pastoral Canadian landscape, city life in Montreal, and a suburban Princeton, New Jersey neighborhood.

Along it's duration, this video changes emphasis between the form of such a new video/audio synthesis, a more standard interview form, and creative documentation of the recording process of new Acousmatic works by Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky. The transitions between these three forms of art process are fascinating to behold and frame the core of the work.

Francis Dhomont is a five-time winner at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition and has taught at the Université de Montreal. Paul Lansky is a professor and chair of the Music department at Princeton University. The academic approach to sound and video is clearly apparent in "My Cinema for the Ears". This DVD will become a welcome addition to any thorough collection on the art of new music.