~ max. 15 p.
Sound of Disbelief analyzes the soundtrack of Mountain of Disbelief, a film that is neither entirely figurative nor entirely abstract, but rather poetic. The soundtrack is examined as a composition, in its relationship to the image, and its impact on the viewer’s imagination.
Due to its short duration (18 minutes), Mountain of Disbelief allows for multiple viewings of the film while engaging participants:
– as a personal experience
– in excerpts to illustrate the analysis and highlight potential disagreements; – at the end of the masterclass, to revisit the film based on a perception enriched by each participant’s own experience.
The masterclass is open to all audiences, from the spectator curious to discover the half-real, half-dreamlike expressive possibilities of sound, to the composition student or the ones developing a personal practice (installation, exhibition, performance, radio, text, etc.) and seeking to deepen the relationship between narrative/dramatic elements and a sound/musical component.
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Dimitri Coppe is a composer of acousmatic music. He practices improvisation and collaborates with dance, film, and radio. His concerts and performances are based on spatialization. Gestures on touch controllers guide this immersion, which is not only sonic, and summon the most primitive part of the audience, the atavistic part upstream of the music. He does not make records and favors the concert, that is to say, the encounter with the audience, collective listening, live performance, and in situ installation playing with acoustic complexity. A sonic approach that plays on the ambiguity of sources, sounds, movements, intentions, and perception itself, also within his “cinema” compositions.