Talking Together - Jess Loseby & Tara Noid - Text, Image & Sound
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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.

Clive: http://www.rathergood.net
Jamie: http://www.lifensoul.org

Through language?

Yes

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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