Jono Podmore, Darkness At Noon; Gvoon

to that inner conversation with oneself that we call conscience, that unavailable space in which people encounter themselves and in which responsibility arises,,,
The video work "Darkness At Noon" was recorded on Tuesday night, December 5, 2023 at 00:10 by Gvoon with Arthur Schmidt.
The video work with music by Jono Podmore (Kumo) was created in collaboration with Gvoon. For this purpose, Jono Podmore came here on January 13, 2024 to another place where the black rubber cell of the Stasi is set up in order to make various sound recordings himself inside the cell. He recorded the sounds made when the cell walls were struck and developed rhythms from them, which also included the sounds of the original keys from other cells, the grille above the ventilation shaft at the back of the rubber cell and his own breathing from the exertion. Jono limited himself to using only the sounds he recorded himself in the cell for the entire work on the music for the video piece. The rubber walls were amazingly reflective for him during the sound recordings and he later separated the direct sound from the indirect reverberation. He then went on to make a series of analog and digital edits: extreme time stretching, extreme dynamic control, vocoding and resonance filters together with the editing, etc. He then mixed the resulting piece of music in Dolby Atmos (7.1.2) to enhance the feeling of being surrounded by the walls of the cell, using three-dimensional sound to create a claustrophobic feeling rather than a sense of space. A stereo rendition of the piece was used in this video work. A full three-dimensional performance is planned. The title of the video work "Darkness At Noon" was chosen by Jono and comes from the novel by Arthur Koestler, which the writer Duncan Fallowell recommended to Jono at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - a reminder of what imprisonment under a brutal authoritarian regime means.
You can find more information about the extensive work of Jono Podmore alias Kumo directly at: www.psychomat.com or on Facebook at / jono.podmore and / kumosolo . Jono also publishes some of his work on TH-cam at: / @jonopodmore
The sound used by Jono Podmore can still be found solo under the name "Darkness At Noon" on Bandcamp at: kumo.bandcamp.....
Further information on the video work "Darkness At Noon" can be found at: www.gvoon.de/j... or other video works created for this project directly here: / @gvoonart
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(Rec. 04.01 04-05.12.2023)

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