julean simon - videos
Julean Simon has a background as a saxophonist in the early eightis and as a videoartist in the late eightis. He started experimenting with video, looking at it especially as a "time-based-art", applying musical composition principles. Most videoworks have been based on soundtracks and music-pieces. Preference of lowTechnology: old b&w surveillance cameras, Commodore C64 and Amiga graphics (the endversions often have been transfered to U-Matic or BetaCam in order to improve screening performance).
Between 1989 and 2001 he worked in research and software-development for several companies in US and BRD. In 2001 he discovered the wind-midi-controller - an electronic wind instrument -and started to program voices for this instrument, to modify the hardware and to practice intensively to develop special playing techniques.
Most of Simon's newer videos document various music-projects. One reason to use video is to demonstrate, that all music was played live and to adress the irritation of the audience that e.g. piano-like or percussive sounds or an entire ensemble was indeed generated by a single wind instrument (today's electronic music is mainly produced in non-live studio-situations, more or less by technicians). The videos dont have a distinguished character, since usually a camera (without a cameraman) was positioned and recorded the session. The lean postproduction attempts only to find some form to transport the idea, with a minimum of effects.
LINKS: wax-music * about *
old videos *
projects: AV-Kopplung * bach * dance *
dom *
vids chronologically:
070626
nmi07 - Julean Simon spielt aus den Cellosuiten von Bach
DVD 40min, 8 chapters
auf dem Dach der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften...more>
070417
mixnitzish8
DVD 40min, 8 chapters, j.simon (wax), ewald
oberleitner (acoust.bass)
This 8th session of the mixnitzish-project (which finally resulted in
9 CDs) made it
to a video-session......more>
070405
studies for electronic percussion
DVD 16min, 8 chapters
Percussive sounds are difficult to be played on
a wind-instrument (counter-intuitive articulation of sound compared with
wind-type sounds), therefore I practice them on a regular basis and put
a lot of time into programming the voices and their behavior..
070307
casals -10
DVD 15min, 10chapters
I read, casals once said that you need to be 60 to play the cellosuites.
we have now about 50 years of electronic music, so i have another 10
years to improove this cello-voice. yet, the target is not imitation
of sound, but variability and playability of the voice. This voice-programming
led me to choose classical music for testing. Meanwhile playing the cellosuites
is a continuous practice for me, to keep my electronic music-making in
touch with music tradition and it is both an enjoyment and a challenge
concerning interpretation and playing technique...more>
060218
the sintra session
DVD, 25min, 7chapters, 2006 Sintra/Pt, ludger lamers - mooves,
julean simon - grooves
This was a spontaneous session with no practice, whatsoever. He attended
a concert I had at the Goethe-Institute in Lissabon and talking afterwards,
we decided to perform in this nice garden in Sintra... more>
051217
(dreizehn) Schauer
DVD, 27min, 13 chapters, 2005 Berlin, Ingo Reulecke (dance), julean
simon (music/video)
After several productions with more dancers we did this duo-piece. Actually
we planned to do the performance in an even smaller room (cube). Musically
it was influenced by my work on the Grand() project (for the ARCO Madrid),
a kind of "prepared piano" voice-setup....more>
051125_
pyramidale 2005
dv/pal, 10min30, simon.05, Berlin
Solo-Concert at the Pyramidale Festival in Berlin Hellersdorf for Contemporary
Music.
051111
grand() - synthetisch/analytische etueden
DVD+CD 36pieces 50min, Installation (Neue Galerie Graz, ARCO06 Madrid)
signed, limited edition (1-99)
36 little pieces for "prepared piano". One of my favorite projects - I
am glad it worked out so well on all levels, voice-programming, playing-technique,
the composition...more>
051115
Installation grand() Neue Galerie Graz, ARCO Madrid
050924
laborgras impro#3
DVD perform050923 33min, perf 050924 57min, rehearsal 74min
dance: graziadei, meierkord, reulecke, staeldi - licht: dielmann - simon:
musik ...more>
050920
-nda -
DVD 29min 2chapters, ingo reulecke, lena meierkord (dance) j.simon (music, video) 2005 Berlin
...more>
050401
solo concert at "Weimarer
Fruehjahrstage für zeitgenoessische Musik"
mpg, 30min
040219
stub_ceta
stub_enner
stub_karkowski
Excerpts from Stubnitz-Livevideo of a concert in Rostock on "Motorschiff Stubnitz"
+ Zbigniev
Karkowsky (laptop).
030812
dom na litejnom
Pal/DV 8min15,
2002 Berlin j.simon wax
russian traffic-jam for 4
hyper-cello tracks associated with 4 video-tracks (j.simon - synthe)...dom>
weekend, peterburg (variant)
Pal/DV 11min, 2002 Berlin j.simon
wax
russian traffic-jam for 5 cellovoices (j.simon - synthe)...dom>
zaika tsja (variant)
DV/Pal 11min 2002Berlin: alexandr kopanev - voice, j.simon - synt)
see sto:let
030613_gospodin sto:let
cadett
ballett
CD 6min 2003 Berlin. Aleksandr Kopanev -vocals, julean a.simon - electronics, Berlin/St.Petersburg ...more>
020515
matti
DV/Pal 2min37, 2002 Berlin
plastikmucke live
at fiib/Berlin. Peter Moldauer being the first drummer in plastikmucke.
matti is the 12th piece on the plastikmucke CD-ROM "aeloi"....more>
021112
quaranTe
DV/Pal 7min40, 2002 Berlin. musicvideo,
programmed a hyper-cello virtual instrument (physical modeling
algorithms) and played
variations on bwv.1007.courante using processes such as granular syntheses, looping,
layering, etc. The video-track plays with the multiple-layered rhythmic
structure and especially reinforces the hypnotic character inherent to
the audio-track.
020922
magnifique
DV/Pal 3min 2002 Berlin
souleymane toure to test the glorious pumpup-system (pneumatic pitch control: roman dill & david faulwasser, souleymane toure, guido schirmeyer)
020526 elvers trilogie
1. jenny elvers head set
DV/Pal 3min, 2002 Berlin. Erweitertes Minidrama
mit jenny elvers, regina lemnitz u.a. lesen aus "clash" (severin/schmidt)
am 26.5.02 im Traenenpalast/Berlin...more>
2. ellipsis
DV/Pal 2min,
2002 Berlin.Space
established by seven figures: aquaqueen-skin, pupp, doggy, mirror,
observer, matschmann, elli. the seven scenes linked by ellipses.
soundpiece (ellipsis) played with breathcontroler. visual: from
elvers-material playing with sorenson3 codec artefacts.
3. artefacts
DV/Pal 1min, 2002 Berlin. Distortions
of her face due to artefacts of the sorenson3-codecs..
020502 neuer ort - DV/Pal 3min30, eroeffnung framework/berlin, blitz-interviews,...
020422
berlinsky
DV/Pal 1min 2002 Berlin
ma
babe -
ma babes gone tonight -
the other left the other nite - just
before daylight - now
shes out about an our - refused
to climb the watchtower : blues
based on a "guitar"-track that has been played on a breathcontroler,
while staring at alex from my backwindow.
020414
4
b3at
DV/Pal 1min30, 2002Berlin
020327
ded
fla
CD 3min30, 2002 berlin
2pieces form unsison ...more>
020125
dings,
1min30, 2002
DV/Pal 1min30 2002 Berlin, julean simon -
breath control
020105 (oni poeli) u sebja - DV/Pal 7min, 2002 Berlin homevideo
oui ou non
PRIZE D.DIOEZESE GRAZ.SECKAU 1989 FOR CONTEMPORARY FINE ART (for oevre)
1988/9, U-matic, 60min - Interview with Christine Noel
zum beDINGten leben
1989, U-matic, 27min, grant by: BMUKS
tapeWorks 1-4
1988/9, video8 12min
august
1988, sw, 3min Video8
zoo, drei
1988, 14min Video8
zoo concret 2
AUSTRIAN MINISTRY PRIZE for VIDEO ART, 1988
remake, 37min Video8 (music 84: Simon/Puschnig); grant by: BMUKS
actors: Christine Noel (F), Christian Amman (A); director/producer: Julean
Simon, 1987
see "zoo concret 1"
kos kapitel, das
videoletter, 40min Video8, 1987
100 praenatale sprueche
NO-BUDGET-FESTIVAL-PRIZE 1988, HAMBURG
13min, Video8, 1987
reciter le dictionnaire
STEIR.KUNSTPREIS F.BILDENDE KUNST 86 : Ankauf der 2.Version
4 versions (5,7,15,5min) Video8, 1986/7
'reciter le dictionnaire', bzw. 'Jones recites Webster's' beruht auf
der Einsicht, dasz ein Computer bestens dazu geeignet ist, Listen zu
verarbeiten. Ich habe daher zwei Listen ausgewaehlt: die der Woerter
in 'Webster's Dictionnary' und andererseits hat Daniel Jones, Autor
des Standardwerks der englischen Phonetik, 1914 seinen eigenen Mund
bei der Bildung der verschiedenen Laute photographiert. Diese Bilder
wurden digitalisiert und es wurde ein Programm geschrieben, das sie
entsprechend der Lautfolge von Woertern aus Webster's Dictionnary aufruft,
so daß also der 1914 fotographierte Mund von Daniel Jones
wieder zum Sprechen gebracht wird und aus Webster's rezitiert. In anderen
Versionen wurden die sequentiell abgerufenen Wörterbucheinträge
willkürlichen Objektsammlungen gegenübergestellt.
ten plus man
10 concert-background-videos, 1986, 60min Video8
Experimental transposition of the drum&base-lines preproduced for
three punk-concerts of "ten+man" in Ljublijana, Graz and Hamburg. The
images have been shot with a consumercamera (video8), color-modulation
with a selfbuilt mixer.
These are early examples of video-clips, which became common several
years later.
zoo concret 1
KODAK/EASTMAN VIDEO PRIZE at OESTERR. FILMTAGE WELS 86
1985/6, 33min v-8 (music l984, Simon/Puschnig)
actors: Waltraud Kucera, Christian Amman; director/producer: Julean
Simon
The story background: Two persons have been sent to a distant country
by the Zoological Society to collect pairs of unknown animals. They have
been waiting for a long time for the ship that will take them back, so
they started cooking and eating their study-samples. They dont regard
this as a problem, since they themselves would bring back all the diseases
and the characteristics of the collected samples, anyway. Back in the
home-country, the film is a documentary of their stay in quarantine,
where they are secluded for study purposes.
The soundtrack "zooConcret" is a suite of duets produced 1984 by
Julean Simon (soprano saxofone) and Haimo Puschnig (piano). The filmic
episodes are opposed to and partly overlayed with written text parts
(a technique used later in video clips).