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BLU • BLAU • BLEU • AZUL

by Benjamim Gomes x ∩

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about

Together for the (love of) noise, Benjamim and Ricardo have a path linked to the exploration of interference and volume. “BLU▪BLAU▪BLEU▪AZUL”, a cine-concert with live-video by Benjamim Gomes and musical performance by ∩, was initially produced to close the cycle “Incursões Experimentais” by Cineclube EA. The digital release of the performance will be on the 4th of June with a CDr + DVDr gatefold edition coming later in June.

With the exception of the phenomena of synesthesia, a neurological condition that, among other symptoms, leads to the association between color and sound; the existence of the so-called white, pink, blue noise; of the existence of the musical style Blues or even the chromatic scale, the musical language, despite being able to arouse emotion, thought, criticism and reflection, it is an abstract expression. Like dance, despite having a language, it is not figurative, it is the narrative that gives it the theme and that helps the interpretation of the movement.

As such, the soundscape of a film whose narrative is fragmented, crisscrossed and directly or indirectly cites other authors, must, in its composition and performance, demolish and fragment and then make an anastylosis of a sound sculpture pigmented in blue.

Just as the attribution of what each color represents for a given society changes depending on the culture in which it is inserted, a direct association with a certain type of symbolism or emotion to the color blue is not intended. This will be as volatile as its valuation throughout the History of Humanity. Volatile like the reaction to a Yves Klein blue stain.

Using the sound material of noise, repetition and dilution of compositional structures, it is intended that it materializes and disintegrates in dialogue with the intrinsic characteristics of the VHS film used in the film. The instability, the static, the grain, or even the artifacts left by previous recordings. This time, it is intended to make the blue heard, whatever that may be for each spectator.

Visions of past decades haunt him. His one eye, centered in his head, swivels schizophrenic, not knowing what to focus on. Connected to the past and the future by the same cable, information overflows and metamorphoses into something timeless. Fragments, colors, images, violence, pleasure appear. The system is pushed to its limit, countdown to meltdown. Frequencies intersect, add, subtract. The RGB translation subsystem starts to focus on a single spectrum, a final electronic spasm to prevent self-destruction. 666 THz. The color spectral comparison program is started to determine the signal. Blue. The eye, now transfixed in a center, looks for patterns in the kaleidoscope that appears in front of it. A hand, a foot, remnants of his former humanity. Has the system been driven into paranoia? More and more the past infects the perception of the present. The tension between timelines increases, distortions begin to appear. Sharpness is lost, noise begins to appear. In a fast growing we only have chaos transmitting its signal at 200Db, echoes of despair. Like a black hole, the image sucks in itself and implodes. Finally silence. Complete system annihilation.
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released February 6, 2023

∩ (Ricardo Nogueira Fernandes) - sound
Benjamim Gomes - video
Diogo Pinto - video recording

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