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- Call-N-Response
6.21.2021
Hii Teams' Bi-Weekly Image Association Game. “Let’s give sound to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields Illuminated 001.
What song do you associate with the below image? Find out what our team thinks and listen to the accompanying playlist.
Torin:
[Quirke - Acid Beth] “First thought was Acid Beth by Quirke. I think the quality of the piano matches the space really well, and the oddness of the production fits the gloomy mood.”
ABC:
[ME - Felicia Atkinson, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma] “The art in the photo reminds me of ink droplets in liquid, similar to the way this song feels like an ambient pool with melodic granules splashing in throughout.”
Kira:
[Modest Mouse - Ionizes + Atomizes] “Been on a big Modest Mouse kick lately and this song is about fluorescent light and emptiness, which kind of just says it all.”
Guin:
[In Particular - Blonde Redhead] “Cells moving about in eerie, gothic formation”
MJ:
[Metachok - Discovery] “What most entranced me about this installation was the inviting yet sterile presence of the fluorescence. The progression of the song matches this overtone with the additional ambient bird sounds fulfilling my visual fantasies of creating a haunted world that lies outside the window the piece is lit by.”
Jackie!:
[Michael Andrews - Goldfish] “It's the cue "Goldfish" from the score for "Me and You and Everyone We Know." A short, but bittersweet tune. This installation reminded me of laptop blue light in a bedroom where you haven't turned the lights on yet because you've been alone on your computer the whole day without realizing the sun had set. This is a case of a movie score sitting with me more than the movie and I return to this soundtrack when I'm searching for something pensive, sweet, and lonely.“
[Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Kairo OST - Track 1] Full disclosure, this is NOT a bop or anything. But the image immediately reminded me of the 2001 Japanese techno-horror movie "Pulse". I watched it a few times over the course of last year and was so moved by its prescient portrayal of adulthood isolation via ghosts and the Internet. This is the opening track of the score. In the movie, as friends disappear due to dark spirits who move through the Internet, they leave behind a black splotch on the wall. These illuminated lightning fields literally remind me of the black splotch, but also feel mysterious and almost bacterial--like a microscopic look at surreal living cells.
[Audio used is 'Thunder Roll' by 'lauriemc']
