Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!
TREVOR MATHISON is an artist, composer, sound designer, and recordist. His sonic practice – centered on creating fractured, haunting aural landscapes and integrating existing music – has featured in over 30 award-winning films and installations. Trevor was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), where his sonic designs defined and situated the Collective’s audiovisual works. He has continued to work with some of his former collaborators from BAFC creating sound design for numerous documentaries and installations. With Anna Piva and Edward George, he formed the projects “Flow Motion” and “Hallucinator”, whose mutant techno dub featured on the leading record label Chain Reaction. In recent years Trevor has produce a series of artworks and album releases as part of the ongoing and iterative project “From Signal to Decay”.
GARY STEWART is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. His work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology, through media art, experimental music, and research. Through the application of innovative technologies and practices, he is part of a global network of collaborators who are advocates for equality, climate justice and better health through the arts especially those from marginalised communities. Under the moniker of Bantu, Gary sets out to explore and bring fresh new perspectives and in particular to “Black Noise”.
As DUBMORPHOLOGY, Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart create installations and performances that incorporate elements of dub and musique concrète which functions as a binding agent for disparate visual material that is bound together by what might be dubbed “post-soul noise”.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
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