TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE

Punkt—Radiophonia #2

2005
Emidio Buchinho

Punkt—Radiophonia #2 consists of an intermedia concert for radio, television and electronics, which was commissioned by the Granular Association for the Metasonic Lx 2005 festival. It’s a piece of direct composition, using chance operations, based on a 25’ pre-defined structure, inspired by John Cage’s “Radio Music” and the Wassily Kandinsky’s book “Punkt und Linie”. Sound and visual materials are created and manipulated in real-time, with pre-recorded and pre-programmed partial elements.

In the begining, sound arises from silence and darkness. A unique unit. A non-zero element. With its own resonance and interior pulse. Endows a concentric force and stability. Sustains the surrounding space.

We observe the passage from a static moment to a dynamic movement of sound and images, points and lines, charged with vital and strong force. Tensions that increase in intensity, in an eccentric construction, are generated. A cycle of repetition and sustenance of the point of light is created until all possibilities are exhausted. The intensity of forces around that point originate the modulation of its repetitions until the end.