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Automamusic is a work in progress set in the after hours of the
Museum of Music Automatons in Seewen, Switzerland.
Automamusic is a film about mechanical music. Intricate views
of self-playing violins, accordions, drums, pianolas, and orchestrions are offset by scenes in which floating musical instruments are played by invisible hands. The film highlights the similarities between the beginnings of musical reproduction in the 19th century and spiritualist invocations of the dead through sound. Automamusic breathes the ghost back into the machine, inhabiting the figurative space between sound and source, when music had not yet become abstracted into the grooves of the gramophone record.
The film was exhibited at:
Artprojx Space
10 July - 16 Aug 2008
http://www.artprojxspace.com/
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