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Flicker
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| Flicker, a film by Nik Sheehan, explores the life and times of Brion Gysin and his invention, the Dream Machine. The musical score features extensive use of Kyma, analog synthesizers and the Continuum to augment the swirling world of Gysin to help bring to life his art, friendships, ideas and his incredible fascination with self-identity. A sonic four channel interpretation of the Dream Machine was created using a Serge modular synthesizer, which could then be selectively tuned to harmonize within the various movements of the musical score. A principle in the documentary, Marianne Faithfull, was used as her voice was sampled and analysed within Kyma to create time variant deliveries of the phrase "beautiful, simple, magical object". Granular ambiences, modal tone shaping, formant shifted voices and numerous other Kyma sounds were played on the Continuum with the assistance of Wacom Tablet and Wii control input. Musical excerpts are available here. |
| For more information about the documentary visit the official Flicker web site here. |
| The film premieres in April 2008 at the Hot Docs festival and will be broadcast on Bravo later in the year. |
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