2023 – 20′ – CZ/PT

SLAM, “sounds like a movie”, is a fixed-media acousmatic composition for 5.1 Dolby Theatres made of film sounds. It plays with a sense of cultural memory by referencing well-known films in a stream of sonic associations in a format that is the standard approach of multichannel sound in cinema. In that sense, the composition questions a few assumptions that established themselves during the years of film sound history, namely the patterns that define that history. It puts forward an idea of collective memory in film culture in a semi-historical approach of film sound as a story-telling tool. The composition hops from film to film in a chain of personal associations, either driven by the sound itself or by the film per se.

SLAM is an étude au cinema as much as an ode to film sound while being, literally, cinema for the ears.

Screenings:

• 21 June 2024 @ Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon. Program note (in Portuguese), available here.
• 17 February 2024 @ Eletroacoustic Music Festival, Bangor – Wales, UK
• The original 5.1 version has been adapted into a 30 channel installation to be exhibited at GHMP, Prague.
• 30 November 2023 @ Ponrepo, Prague (premiere)

SLAM is now available online (and below), an article published by ILUMINACE.