Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence (Hans Op De Beeck) [Orignal Motion Picture Soundtrack] '2021

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British artist Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) traverses the experimental terrain
between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres.
Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts,
installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery
(1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative
and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working
with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne
McGregor, Mike Kelley, Carsten Nicolai, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie
Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.

Rimbaud first met Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck at Le Fresnoy Studio national
des Arts Contemporains when they were both Visiting Professors in 2012. Op de
Beeck lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
and creates sculpture, installations, video, photography, animated films,
drawing, painting, and writing. His various works show the viewer non-existent,
but identifiable places, moments and characters that appear to have been taken
from everyday life.

The artists found an immediate creative connection, and a year after meeting
Staging Silence (2) was completed. In 2019, they returned to the theme and
created Staging Silence (3).

Each of the films is realised through the same principles, as two pairs of
anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on
a mini film set of just three-square metres in size.
The films take the viewer on a visual journey through depopulated, enigmatic and
often melancholic, but nonetheless playful, small-scaled places, which are built
up and taken down before the eye of the camera.

Ranging from hyper-realistic fictional land and cityscapes to absurd, almost
surreal, dreamscapes, the various locations are connected by the sense of
mystery and melancholy that pervades them. And at every moment Rimbauds score is
amplifying and illustrating these moments, from tragedy to nostalgia, witty to
optimistic.

Introspective and lyrical, Staging Silence offers us a world of mystery and
intrigue, held together by nature and time. This is a very humane works
experienced at a time when many of us feel disconnected from the world around
us. The peculiar silence that permeates this hauntingly beautiful work is very
much an illustration of our times, anticipating a future in the past.

Staging Silence is an exquisite study in dreamlike abstract ambience, a
kaleidoscope of sounds and tones that engage the head and the heart. 

1.01 - Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence, Pt. 1 (20:25)
1.02 - Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence, Pt. 2 (14:55)
1.03 - Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence, Pt. 3 (15:06)
1.04 - Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence, Pt. 4 (15:18)

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