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Gohachi (​五​八​)

from Ballet M​é​canique by Eidon

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  • euqinacèM is a peculiar version of "Ballet Mécanique" (1923–24), "a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy" (Wikipedia). euqinacèM plays "Ballet Mécanique" in reverse -- from its last frame to its first -- and in fast motion: 64.58 frames per second. Finally, as a soundtrack, I applied my "GoHachi" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/gohachi).

    I found the result truly surprising! Especially when you consider that I composed the music without considering the use I ended up making of it.

    Enjoy!

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  • This is my second Dada experiment, following "euqinacèM" that I published a few months ago. The video is Walther Ruttmann's "Lichtspiel Opus 1", which has been sped up to match my track "Seventy-Four" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/seventy-four).

    Ruttman's first Opus was created between 1919 and 1921, and is the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery" (M. Betancourt, "Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Films". Cinegraphic. Cited by Wikipedia).

    The geometrical shapes in Léger and Murphy's "Ballet Mécanique" clearly owe to Ruttman's. For a strange kind of serendipitous magical audiovisual xenochrony, both videos appear to be in synch with my tracks, despite the fact that the decision to use them as soundtracks came to me long after I had composed them. In sooth, magic does exist!So here's to you my Klang- und Lichtspiel. I hope you'll like it!

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"Gohachi," Japanese for "5" and "8", as the time signatures here are in 5 and 8.
And I found out that it is also one of the names of Gohei Namiki I, Kabuki playwright of the XIX Century
(www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/person/Gohei%20NAMIKI.html).
And on top of all that, it didn't sound bad!
So I said to myself: "okay, let us Take Five-and-Eight then" XD

I used Gohachi as a soundtrack for "euqinacèM" -- a little Dada xenochrony based on "Ballet Mécanique" played in reverse -- from its last frame to its first. The reversed video was played in fast motion: 64.58 frames corresponded to one second.

I found the result truly surprising! Especially when you consider that I composed the music without considering the use I ended up making of it. In the end, as Don Preston says in "200 Motels," it looks like "Whatever I mix... is irrelevant... to THE RESULT!"

I wonder what Frank would have thought of my little Dada meta-experiment....

The video is available on youtube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVU9cuTjP5w) and facebook (fb.watch/g2cJIVGfD9/).
The Wikipedia page about "Ballet Mécanique" now mentions it.

I'd love to hear your opinion!


Best,
Eidon.

From wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_M%C3%A9canique):

"Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray).[1] It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil. However, the film premiered in a silent version on 24 September 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik (International Exposition for New Theater Technique) in Vienna presented by Frederick Kiesler. It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking."

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from Ballet M​é​canique, track released October 7, 2022

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Eidon Leuven, Belgium

Jazz, neo-classical, avant-pop, generative.

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"Eidon put ook uit mathrock, minimal music, jazz, etnische muziek... Hij zou perfect passen als support van Gogo Penguin, Battles of Dijf Sanders en kan op termijn misschien wel een plaats veroveren op zowel Rock Werchter als Gent Jazz of Couleur Café. Benieuwd hoe hij dit live brengt"

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