Danse

The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, Les cloches d’Atlantis, musique électroacoustique et cinéma archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore, éditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.

A short abstract animated film centred on a single geometric figure: a flat, coloured rectangular form, which may evoke a sheet of paper, now red, now blue, caught in a rotating movement, whirling through space at different speeds against a black ground. As it multiplies, this figure creates a dialogue of forms, colours and movements in correspondence or in rupture with circular sounds, following a rhythm at once plastic and musical, like a subtle game of balance between the minimalist images of Piotr KAMLER and the musique concrète of Bernard Parmegiani.

Considered by its author rather as a study, this animated film marks the first collaboration between the filmmaker of Polish origin Piotr KAMLER and the composer Bernard Parmegiani, laying the foundations of a fundamental audiovisual research characteristic of the early days of the Service de Recherche. A research that Piotr KAMLER extends with most of the composers of the GRM: François Bayle, Robert Cohen-Solal, Luc Ferrari, Ivo Malec, Beatriz Ferreyra, etc., and which will continue well beyond the dissolution of the Service in 1975, notably with his feature film Chronopolis in 1982.

This information notice was co-produced with INA/GRM for the creation of the multimedia fresco – Artsonores – L’aventure électroacoustique, in the category Films produced by the Service de la Recherche de l’ORTF from 1950 to 1975.