Shutter duet
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I met Preston on his depute performance Sonic Anchor presented by
@contemporarymusikinghk Shortly after the show, we met again at para site for Empty set by pratchaya phinthong. We talked about the performance he just did, and of course shutter. I was in a limbo state to capture water fountain with flashing lights, silent shutter captured noises and frequencies of flashing lights. Preston suggested to have silent shutter off, so.. my photo was perfectly capture with mechanical shutter and a clear digital click sound.
Few days ago, I saw Preston’s socials recap sound jam and replied : 影相唔叫! Well, the rest is what we showed in the past two posts. I wasn’t expecting much from trial, admiring the fact that I had little knowledge about Ableton, mixer and sound mixing at all. We started the long walk to capture liminal space in a deserted matrix of highway, railway, village houses, cyclists, and people walked their dogs late. We were progressing slowly en route with our active shutters till we got to the bridge Preston drove by frequently.
We had contact mic sticked to camera body to capture the sound of mechanical shutter (shout out to Tim!
@tim_footage ) and began experimenting shooting with live, altered shutter sound. At first I didn’t know what to do with my camera when it transform to a device to make shutter sound, the experimentation slowly turned to the usual exposure triangle, shutter speed control time needed to produce shutter sound. Most of the images were blurry, out focused and repeated, these seemingly redundant image transform to sound waves palpable by auditory senses.
Interesting project to start reflecting on sound and realm of visual world.
