Sonic Cinema - Week #10 · Sunday, May 7

SONIC CINEMA - WEEK #10 · Sunday, May 7 · 14:00 - 19:00 GENERAL INFORMATION Doors open at 14:00 - Tickets on shotgun only Basement -2 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 75004 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Sunday, March 19 · 14:00 - 19:00 [Come and go as you please, stay as long as you're entranced] William Russell, Lost Spaces: Rainforest (4DSOUND installation) The Rainbow Machine, Becoming Jungle (4DSOUND installation) Shehyrar Ahmad, Study of Place (4DSOUND installation) ABOUT SONIC CINEMA To visit Sonic Cinema is to enter a liminal zone - a ‘space of possibles’ where Spatial Sound fundamentally enhances and alters the ways stories are told and experienced. A pure sonic experience, set in complete darkness - the Sonic Film is a film that the audience inhabits and experiences with their whole body. Uninhibited by the visual sense with its defined boundaries, this new medium enhances one's physiological experience, vastly expanding possibilities for narrative creation and embodiment. Before each session you will be able to experience a Recalibration by Monom Studios to tune in your senses. This moment will serve to sharpen our attention and in particular our ability to listen more deeply, to listen with the whole body. For more information about Monom Studios follow them on instragram: @monomstudios and visit their website: www.monomsound.com — ABOUT THE ARTISTS — William Russell, Lost Spaces A collaboration between Monom Studios' Creative Director and 4DSOUND designer, William Russell and artist/researcher Robertina Šebjanič and supported by Projekt Atol Institute. William Russell is an Australian-born spatial sound artist, composer, and the co-founder and creative director of Monom Studios. With a background in spatial sound design and classical percussion, William has collaborated with over 150 artists since the opening of Monom Studios in December 2017 to produce and present more than 100 spatial sound works across a diverse range of genres and disciplines, including music, dance, opera, theater, and virtual and augmented reality. As an artist, William is particularly focused on creating and recreating the sonic and spatial dynamics of climate phenomena. His works incorporate music to inspire empathetic awareness of the environment and highlight the inseparable connection between humans and nature. Based in Berlin, William continues to make significant contributions to the creative industry through his innovative and groundbreaking works, inspiring new generations of spatial sound artists. — Paul Benham - The Rainbow Machine Becoming Jungle” is a place or consciousness that absorbs us in all its multi- sensory stimuli. Through the engagement of our senses we can connect with our surroundings and the textural landscape, with ‘all there actually is’. The barrier between our- selves and the observed begins to dissolve and our mind ceases to try separating itself from what it sees. As this process continues we realize that we are part of the perceived, and similarly to immersing ourselves in nature, we sense reality prior to any evaluation and judgment. Within this liberty of pure perception we be- gin to watch the magic unfold. A pathway to endless exploration. This is the becoming of the jungle The Rainbow Machine is first of all the pseudonym used by the musician, composer and sound designer Paul Behnam, to share his ambient music and electro-acoustic projects. It is as well a project opened to audiovisual immersive installation where different visual artists are invited to work together on conceptual sound pieces in order to reach on different levels high sensitive and synesthetic experiences. From a metaphoric point of view the machine is representing the society and its structures, cultural evolutions etc. Where the Rainbow is more about human emotions, feelings etc. . — Shehryar Ahmed, A study of place A Place, perceptible only through sound. A virtual story, told only through the ears of the listener. A Study of Place is an auditory experiment, designed to convey a feeling of immersion, a sense of ‘being present’ in a series of different Sonic locations, following a cinematic narrative and journey. You will now experience scenes of a short story, told entirely through sound. Place yourselves in the sonic locations, be comfortable but feel free to walk around and explore each aspect of the environment. Shehryar Ahmad is an immersive composer, producer, sound engineer and artist from Lahore, Pakistan. His unique work explores the intersections between cinematic and organic electronica, experimental music, and immersive sonic worldbuilding. Shehryar’s approach to creating environments feigns between concrete perception and tonal ambiguity, using sensory aesthetics to challenge instinctive preconceptions.⁠ ______________________________________________ FAQ What is SPATIAL sound?⁠ Spatial sound is a term to describe the way we have evolved to perceive space through sound - it refers to the way we hear sound naturally in the world around us, in all its complexity and depth. From above, below, around us, through and within us. The perfect spatial sound experience is the one we experience every day. When we refer to spatial sound technology, this is technology that aims to recreate this effect.⁠ ______________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE We advise coming 10 prior to the start of the sessions to enjoy a Recalibration by Monom Studios For a better experience we recommend having cell phones turned off as light can distract from the experience. If you need to leave the room in the middle of the session, please do so in silence. No cash accepted for the tickets, all the tickets are sold only on shotgun. Possibility to buy directly at the beginning of the event on shotgun. Spatial Sound by MONOM Studios Production: 3537 Technology: 4DSOUND Thanks to Dover Street Market Paris Visual identity by Studio Doppelgänger