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SUMMARY:Symphony In Sweeatch: The Crazed Other-World of Dax Norman_2021
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nDax Norman clearly has Picasso and Dali trapped in his imagination – and it looks like they’re both fighting hard to get out.\nNothing will prepare you for an immersion into the hyper-animated world of Dax Norman. His films approach and rush past as a kind of tumbling, mutating surrealist caravan being chased by a predator just off the screen. This is not a parade of animated imagery that screams meaning – it just screams… and that’s enough!\nDax Norman’s work is not something that you experience so much as something you let happen to you. The roiling, ceaselessly morphing psychedelic imagery should be exhausting but it’s just the opposite – inspiring, beautiful, bursting with ideas and it’s colourful beyond description. At heart, it’s an explosive expression of the pure and simply raw power of what makes animation different from every other artform.\nMIAF 15 Trailer – Dax Norman\nMIAF 15 Trailer\nDax Norman\nUSA, 2015, 0’30\nIn 2015 we got lucky when Dax agreed to create a one-of-kind killa trailer for MIAF.\nHeartbeat Walkin’ -Dax Norman\nHeartbeat Walkin’\nDax Norman\nUSA, 2021, 3’30\nHeartbeat walkin’ every way – I hope you’re feeling sladifferous today!\nSymphony In Sweeatch – Dax Norman\nSymphony In Sweeatch\nDax Norman\nUSA, 45’45, 2021\nThe main event! A champagne-opus of surreality that is probably just about as close as it possible to get to the molten core centre of an animated imagination. The outcome of several years of building an understanding of his 5,000 loop library, Dax Norman gradually linked “time and space and sound together through intense repetition and live design decision-making in performance”.\nSays Dax, “This is an experiment with perception, to be sure, as all of my works have been for more than two decades, spanning various art forms. This is about a deepening of the understanding of time and space, and the relationships betwixt, and the intuitive link between art and science, and the self, and its relationship to the subconscious”.\nThe music, too, has an equally complex and experimental development pathway. The soundtrack, by Bill Byrne, was “created by using software to analyse the animated imagery and generate rhythms and melodies based on the colour and movement of the imagery. This compositional data was fed to a modular synthesizer as the primary instrument for the music contained in this film, combined with samples and recordings created by the artist himself”.\n
URL:https://miaf.net/events/symphony-in-sweeatch-the-crazed-other-world-of-dax-norman_2021/
CATEGORIES:Feature,Retrospective
LOCATION:Fed Square, Melbourne VIC 3000
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