Thursday, November 19, 2009
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"When forms collapse, the resulting remains expose layered bits
containing infinite possibilities. The inner workings of these
fragments make up the foundation of Brian O'Reilly's videos, not unlike
microsonic music composition, to which O'Reilly's oeuvre has a great
affinity. This type of sound making employs sonic events shorter than
musical notes creating a music of vestiges. In these works intervals of
visual information are isolated and reworked in order to compose the
visualizations for a particular piece. Assemblage art also infiltrates
itself a great deal into the videos, albeit in an opposite direction.
While assemblage utilizes found scraps to create a new object, these
videos degrade original footage in order to unearth the weathered
layers in these moving images. Both approaches employ as source
material peripheries that would otherwise go unnoticed. By placing a
"magnifying glass" onto these materials, a whole visual environment is
constructed. This augmented space is precisely what O'Reilly's makes
tangible." - Marcella Faustini from "An Aesthetic of Collapse: Brian
O'Reilly's Cinema of Fragmentized Failure" "In trying to trace the
tangled threads which make up the methods of how I approach
constructing a particular work. I am drawn frequently to a continuation
on a conceptual line of thought first developed by Paul Klee as
"Andacht zum Kleinen" (a devotion to small things). From the study of
the miniscule, the slightest detail, the smallest manifestation of form
within the every day landscape/soundscape, it is possible to understand
(in Klee's words) the "magnitude of natural order". Thus, from a study
of minutiae and its interrelationships, one can deduce the unseen
outlines of complex forms..." - o'Reilly Brian O'Reilly is the
creator of various works for moving images, electronic/noise music,
mixed media collage, installation, and is a contrabassist, focusing on
the integration of electronic treatments and extended playing
techniques. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
on a scholarship for sculpture, following his studies in Chicago he
relocated to Paris to study the composition methods & techniques of
the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. During this time he worked
extensively with Xenakis' electronic music system utilizing graphic
sonic synthesis the UPIC. After a time of research at Les Ateliers
UPIC, he received an appointment as the studio's Musical Assistant,
during which he worked with Luc Ferrari on his audio and video
installation "Cycle Des Souvenirs", and Eliane Radigue on her
electroacoustic work "L'Ile Re-sonante".
To view some of Brian's videos, please visit the following website: vjlabor.blogspot.com
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