Ken Jacobs & Aki Onda – Nervous Magic Lantern (2014)

 

Ken Jacobs and his wife have lived and worked in the same top-floor loft in TriBeCa since the mid-1960s, when the artist was developing his Nervous Magic Lantern – a unique, live-projection artform using a modified film projector without film, but with various masks, filters, and rotating patterned discs. By manually adjusting these elements, Jacobs creates constantly shifting fields of light, shadow, and colour that produce vivid illusions of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality without 3D glasses or digital technology. The experience is immersive and hypnotic: audiences sit in a darkened space while slowly changing, dreamlike images seem to pulse, breathe, and recede into deep space. Jacobs calls it “cinema without film” and is – as you can imagine – fertile ground from which to conjure accompanying sonic dreamlands.

Courtisane Festival, Gent on April 6, 2014
Projections: Ken & Flo Jacobs
Sound: Aki Onda
excerpt, digital editing by Nisi Jacobs

Soundtrack available at https://boomkat.com/products/in-the-depth-of-illusion-a-soundtrack-for-nervous-magic-lantern

Another fine Nmesh you got us into

 

A man dressed for excess

“𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙳𝙾𝙽’𝚃 𝙱𝙴𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙴 𝙰 𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙲𝙸𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃 𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃. 📈

presenting ‘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒: 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬’, the super-stacked follow-up to 2019’s ‘drug full of remixes’ fan-remix project – this time around, we’re showcasing the crème de la crème of remixes of “climbing the corporate ladder” (arguably the most popular nmesh track of the past decade.)

this team of audacious audio architects has outdone themselves, generating exceptional synergies and maximizing shareholder enjoyment throughout the fiscal year of 2022 – rest assured, the results of this creative collaboration are positively reflected on the balance sheet – we extend our heartfelt appreciation to all the talented producers whose remixes, though not featured, contributed to the monumental pool of submissions.

brace yourselves for an auditory odyssey, as we embark on this exhilarating ascent to the summit of corporate success!

💸 for those who choose to purchase this release, all proceeds will go to 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘𝟮𝟬𝟰𝟬 ” – Nmesh

Michal Levy – One (2007)

 

“One” is a visual journey into music. It’s my second endeavour in my own personal quest to understand how music “looks.” … In the dialog woven between music and image, notes are seen and colors heard, making it difficult to tell which is in the lead. – Michal Levy

 

Script writer, Design and Direction: Michal Levy
Animation: Studio FatCat
Music: Original composition “Suheir” composed & arranged by Jason Lindner (Sunjah Music / SESAC)