Classical Journey: Confocal Laser Microscope Images - Artwork by Seran Kubisa Music by Robert Fage & Stephen Tait Playing on "Classical Journey" (Redux Edition) Soundart Radio 3-6pm Sunday 16 November 2014

Friday 14 November 2014

Confocal Laser Microscope Images - Artwork by Seran Kubisa Music by Robert Fage & Stephen Tait Playing on "Classical Journey" (Redux Edition) Soundart Radio 3-6pm Sunday 16 November 2014

Seran Kubisa
Creator of "Treasure Island"
and "Recall"
Photomicrograph Projection Installations
PORTSMOUTH

Recall was created from the project 'Treasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a City' winner of Confocal Laser Microscope Images - Artwork by Seran Kubisa Music by Robert Fage & Stephen Tait

Playing on "Classical Journey" (Redux Edition) Soundart Radio 3-6pm Sunday 16 November 2014 Recall film has an original score collaborated and commissioned by Seran Kubisa with contemporary composers Stephen Tait and Robert Fage to respond to the objects era, heritage events and living stories.

Stephen Taitʼs orchestral scores and ambient soundscapes draw you into the objects story. Robert Fage has used original source material and found sounds, which are processed in an unusual way to invoke ghosts from the objects specific moment in time. Images displayed are from Seran's archives ofʻTreasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a Cityʼ winner of Arts Council England award for public art and innovation.

These appear in Recall film and have been the inspiration for the Musical score. All the archives and be viewed on the website www.cityforensics.com Seran Kubisa artist film music will be playing from Recall film a multi-media response by artist Seran Kubisa to her archives of historical and scientific investigations including the ambitious Public Art project ʻTreasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a Cityʼ - Portsmouth 2006-2010.

Recall invokes memories stored in fragments of the aged objects. Kubisa uses a high-tech scientific process on the confocal laser microscope to extract the artwork from the minute fragment, which then becomes an intrinsic part of the film reel and the trigger to the memory being released through stills, film scenes, film archives and sound.

The film has an original score and Seran Kubisa has worked with contemporary composers Stephen Tait and Robert Fage to respond to the objects era, heritage events and living stories. Stephen Taitʼs orchestral scores and ambient soundscapes draw you into the objects story. Robert Fage has used original source material and found sounds, which are processed in an unusual way to invoke ghosts from the objects specific moment in time.

Investigations Locations The most in depth investigation has been in the city of Portsmouth where it has revealed national heritage archives, personal histories and stories of life, hardship, love and death. The film reveals these collective experiences through its social dissection of life. Archives have been created and fragments collected from diverse locations: The Mary Rose, HMS Victory, Royal Naval Museum, D-Day museum, Public open sessions and groups.

Artefacts have included historical gems as well as personal objects: dog skeleton from The Mary Rose, Lady Hamiltonʼsʼ Dress Hem, a hair from Lord Nelson, WWII Diary, Birth Tag amongst many. Other Investigations have been conducted on the artistsʼ sitting room, at Coutts & Co Bank, London and Carla-Bayle a village in France.

HMS Victory

Music: Stephen Tait

(Artifacts 1758-1797 - Contributor: Peter Goodwin)