I have been interested in the way you use text, image and sound,
in a exceptionally balanced way, as if you loved them equally and
you work on a piece until it becomes a unit, a whole without hierarchy.
How do you see this and how conscious do you work on the relationship
between text, image and sound?
I work lots,
it's very important to me. If there is a hierarchy, it depends where
the work has come from. Depends if it comes from an image which
sparked off text, which has sparked off music - I work with my brother
Jamie and Clive, my husband. Or whether it comes from a phrase that
inspires me, that will dictate the beginning of a new piece of work.
The joy of living with a composer is that music is all around you
all the time. I have got a soundtrack going on with my life, there
is a baby in my arm, and there is a soundtrack going on, like a
film. I got the feeling, the picture, I don't have to work hard
to get images with a composer around, you know what it's like: you
hear music and it sparks things off. Its easy to join the two, we
work very closely together. I will be in my room playing with images,
he in his room playing music and the two will come together.
The inter-relationship
between image, text and music grows concretely out of your daily
life. When in "light from the machine" the butterfly falls
down into darkness so slowly - I really loved that, I thought of
cinema verity, the observer has to be with it, in "real"
time.
Working at night,
I have to deal with this, the window is open, and I have things
crawling over the machine, bit spooky, the light and the insects
fluttering across.
It was very
sad, this slow fall, at the very end I felt it was a heart pumping,
or a pair of lungs breathing rhythmically. I loved it.
It had to do
with the loop, there is a sub beat going on, the music changed it.
It's like choreography. Its my recent work, its my favourite. But
I am fickle; it's always the latest one that's my favourite
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