Lit – sunshine recorder

Lit sunshine recorder appears at Anderida’s Sweet Chestnut Studio when sunlight is at its’ annual low. It is experimental cinema, and an open invitation for the viewer to meditate, offering you time and space, filling the studio with image and sound.

Alexander Wendt assembled Lit – sunshine recorder from recorded ephemera initially a contemplation of sunlight and space. What could easily be dismissed as “watching paint dry” becomes due to its projection with non-sync sound design an evocative cinematic exploration into deceleration, conceived at a time when most of us would have been unsure how to spell it. Though the word deceleration may still trip us up, it’s concept is easily understood. Slow down. This is slow cinema.

Alexander Wendt’s experimental approach to cinema facilitates evocative 30-minute experiences.

Lit – sunshine recorder was conceived and curated as a collaborative work of sonic art and film. International interest brought screenings of Lit to locations ranging from conventional film festivals to academic settings, showcases at conferences/symposia, and open spaces in remote locations, always evoking one’s personal response, mesmerising its audience.

It was presented before in Germany as gallery installation with alternating soundtracks re-writing the picture and shifting audiences’ perception on daily basis. It was also screened in a Dutch cinema investigating conventional screen projection with a site-specific live sound. The artist feeding the midnight ambience of the graachten and Robert Curgenven's soundtrack that emphasizes physicality and our embodied response to sound into the movie’s live soundtrack made critics descrbe it as a “bravura, Byronic and very 1940s filmic sweep” (Quietus).

Lit’s modular soundtrack (stereophonic and/or multi-channel) is never the same. It combines work by field recordists, composers and improvisors. One may experience the sound of humming light fixtures captured by Jez riley French in Japan and Korea, low feedback drones of acetate records by the Australian Robert Curgenven, alongside acoustic instrumentals by Jasper Leyland, electronics by Sandra Ka and/or a ‘music concrete’ the sound of the city at the 0º meridian. It all makes for an experience difficult to describe. Sound-art-cum-film? Technically with five different soundtracks by five different artists, but all at once? This is a rare opportunity to experience Wendt mixing sound+art+film in an intimate setting.

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Alexander Wendt is a sound artist, composer, and an academic, having worked as a Senior Lecturer in London at the CASS Faculty of Arts, Architecture and Design. He has been involved in producing and showcasing electronic music, field recording and digital arts with his FREQUENZEN radio show for several years at ResonanceFM.

His performances often involve multi-channel sound systems and micro-speaker fields, investigating the sonic properties of venue spaces. He received funding for a collaborative psycho-acoustic research project and often explores interactivity in gallery and live performance spaces. Apart from running his own imprints, 12X50 Recordings and miatera Wendt supports many artist, young up and coming alongside more established contemporaries.