The record of sounds (1-2/2)
Presented for the first time in 1971, "Photographs of Sounds" ("Fotografie dźwięków") was created by printing the soundtrack from film stock onto large-scale photographic paper. It would be difficult to imagine a more meaningful opening. Nothing can be heard in this work. There is a complete absence of sound. The lack of sound ensures the work is devoid of any emotional or semantic connotations.Thus, whether this is conscious or not, by introducing this element Bruszewski pursues a tradition that began with the Soviet avant-garde of Dziga Vertov and Evgeny Sholpo, and extends to, amongst others, Walter Ruttma, Daphne Oram and Michel Chion.
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