"Fréquence d'étalonnage" is a series of 7 video-works conceived & realized by Elvire Bastendorff in 2009. This collection of very short formats focuses on "digital color bar" manipulation and test cards micro-editing — located somewhere between the spirit of Marcel Duchamp's "Stoppages-étalon" (1913) and the minutiae of Ryoji Ikeda's audiovisual works.
"Elles doivent être regardées horizontalement et non verticalement" (Marcel Duchamp, Stoppages-étalon, 1913)
"The winter book" (2009) is an original audiovisual (de)composition conceived for noise-manufacturing and white-light sculpting. The result is a 30mn digital film for projection contexts. Elaborated as a progressive process of work, the project was developped over a period of two months, from December 2008 to January 2009.
N.B. A version for free-download of the soundtrack is available since mid-March via Moscow-based Netlabel Clinical Archives http://www.archive.org/details/ca231_zn
Selected electronic setups used by dual electronic Zn'shñ (Elvire Bastendorff & Franck Smith) in 2008-2009 for recording contexts and live performances.
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N.B.- According to a fictitious etymology, the term Zn'shñ signifies: the gleam of dark colours. Deliberately antithetic and intentionally enigmatic, Zn'shñ is enthused by Butoh iconography, Japanese Gagaku aesthetic and Tibetan rituals codification. Operating as a dual electronic unit (mulit-instrumentalis/composer Franck Smith and artist/sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff), Zn'shñ deepens some very specific works around digital phonocrafting and noise manufacturing. Designed for public performances and soundtrack production, the répertoire is a suite of sonic equations, graphical sound formulas and audiovisual projects.
Five months after its discographic debut in April 2009, the dual electronic unit Zn'shñ (multi-instrumentalist/composer Franck Smith and artist/sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff), publishes a second opus, simply titled "II".
Focusing on specific electronic works and "high-end" noise-manufacturing, the new CD contains high frequency trajectories and delicate glitchy micro pulses between Japanese gagaku, digital machinery and Morton Feldman's string quartet colours and was elaborated as a peculiar ceremony for desertic places. Directly following "++" and also published on French independant label Odiolorgnette, "II" displays a suite of radical sonic manipulations conceived for nocturnal ambient usings dedicated to inquisitive minds and sophisticated noise esthetes...
"The winter book" (2009) is an original audiovisual (de)composition conceived for noise-manufacturing and white-light sculpting. The result is a 30mn digital film for projection contexts. Elaborated as a progressive process of work, the project was developped over a period of two months, from December 2008 to January 2009.
N.B. A version for free-download of the soundtrack is available since mid-March via Moscow-based Netlabel Clinical Archives http://www.archive.org/details/ca231_zn
