[Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[Steve Polta]

Tom Whiteside's description of his own *Home Safe Badminton* actually
reminds me of a very "early" Luis Recoder piece, the title of which I do
not recall, which paired an un-edited and untreated sound-off "found film"
on bomb detection (scanning the underside of parked cars with a mirror on a
long pole etc) with the un-edited untreated soundtrack from a film on an
artist (perhaps Paul Klee of Gustav Klimpt but I could be way off on this)
with lines like "He is looking for something unknown..." as the mirror pole
scanned. Saw this at Artists' Television Access' "Other Cinema" series in
San Francisco probably in 1997. Recoder had a real knack for amazingly
creative re-presentation of unedited and un-treated films and sounds back
then and many of his works from this era (likely lost forever in the haxe
of life and now un-seeable probably) would have satisfied the original
poster's inquiry around "found sound films."

See also Brian Frye's *Ozymandias* (circa 1996) and my own *Abbie Hoffman
in Chicago *(release date unknown).

Steve Polta



On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:

> Quoting Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz7 at yahoo.es>:
>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Institutional Qualityby George Landow was created from a found
>> soundtrack, in this case a tape recorder about an instructional test.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know other examples that uses found soundtracks for
>> experimental films, especially from the sixties and seventies?
>>
>
> There is this one by Ken Jacobs:
>
> GLOBE (1971, 22 mins, 16mm, color, sound on cassette)
> (Previously titled: EXCERPT FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION)
> “Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only
> when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes
> open, of course. As with all stereo experiences, center seats are best.
> Space will deepen as one views further from the screen.) The found-sound is
> X-ratable (not for children or Nancy Reagan) but is important to the film’s
> perfect balance (GLOBE is symmetrical) of divine and profane.” (KJ)
>  (pasted in from http://nightingalecinema.org/ken-jacobs-x-3-old-new/)
>
> I've seen it, and am not completely sure what I thought of it. It is at
> the least extremely interesting.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
>
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