In 1996 Norwegian composer Geir Jenssen (“aka Biosphere”) was commissioned by the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) to write a new soundtrack for the movie, using the director’s written instructions for the original accompanying piano player. Jenssen wrote half of the soundtrack, turning the other half to Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive). It was used for the Norwegian version, “Mannen med filmkameraet”, at the 1996 TIFF. The scored movie was not available after the festival. The soundtrack was released in 2001. This edit of the film contains only the parts written by Biosphere. (more…)
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In Cut Piece, the powdered up Yoko Ono knelt down in a traditional Japanese position, seemingly indifferent as members of the audience are invited to cut off her clothes with a pair of scissors. This was first performed in May 1964 in Kyoto.
Yoko Ono – Cut Piece – photo credit: RoseLee Goldberg 1998 “Performance: Live Art since the 60s”
“working with eliane is learning to hear as she hears. the discipline which she brings to her involvement with sound is legendary. she is persistent, critical, alert, and full of self doubt. to interpret her work is to take on these attributes. in her apartment she is in a world of her own, surrounded by curiosities, habits, memories, plants, audio equipment, art objects. she passes in and out of the kitchen through a curtain of hanging philodendron; her sphinx-like cat observes silently. in her world, sound is never altogether the same and never altogether different, as she says, paraphrasing verlaine. to interpret her music is to enter a world not quite like any other, yet still our own, lived world; and to act in it, consciously and responsibly.”
