Category: VI, sound and audio projects

Mignon 35

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Nice acquisition, portable 35mm by Microcine, Italian.  Planning on using it for Vi image/projection on 6th June at qujunktions Dark Matter event. Its meant to be portable and the handle suggests that one person could lift it up. One person can NOT lift it up and its the hardest to lace up 35mm projector Ive ever worked on.

 

finally got Crow / Pylon in digital form

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After 17 years I finally got my 1996 film Crow / Pylon Configuration digitised. It is going to be screened at Kino-Im-Sprengel In Hannover next week. Here are some frame grabs. Back in 96 there was only Standard definition. Now though HD has really helped the case for film because I can scan the original A and B rolls of super8 and it will look ‘pretty awesome’. The sound really holds up.

I’m getting it translated into German but this is proving difficult. They don’t appear to have the flexibility in language to make space for the absurd or ridiculous, or the grammatical willingness to speak what is impossible or non-sensical. Any decent French or Spanish tranlsators out there email me.

If you could be bothered, with all the pressing demands of modern life you can watch it all here. https://www.nachleben.org.uk/skomer/crow-pylon-configuration/ ‎

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nagra 4:2 for the lab

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Ive been borrowing Nagras from the BBC in Bristol (Thanks go to Iain Hunter) for recent projects involving using tape to record and playback sound but have finally acquired a 4:2 for myself. This will now let me further research several projects that can only use this kind of technology. Essentially an exceptionally well engineered portable sound recording device.