[ISEA2002] Artists Statement: Sarah Waterman, Elise Chohan, Peter Green, Amanda Terrington, Edward Kelly, James Padlay, Suzanne Fossey, Donald Bradby. Lawrence Bradby, Tim Holmes. Richard Burns, Leigh Hodckinson & Barnaby Templer – Sonimation [a compilation of 6 sound films]

Artists Statement

Sonimation investigates the shared language of composer and animator and features six new collaborative films from some of the UK’s most exciting emerging artists. An intensive arts project that brought together a range of organisations and individuals between September 2000 and September 2001, Sonimation set out to provide a structure of support – financial, technical, promotional, and moral – to encourage truly collaborative work, and went on to promote the results as far and wide as possible. Sonimation’s pursuit of synthesis between sound and animation is not a new venture yet it remains a significant objective given new slant in the digital age. The project called upon both history and tradition and on more contemporary issues of technology to pursue the idea of a “joint imagination”. Sonimation was produced by Sonic Arts Network, the UK’s only arts organisation exclusively devoted to electronic music and the sonic arts.

The thirteen artists selected to participate in Sonimation were drawn from an open, national call for proposals. Their biographies are diverse and they include graduates from the UK’s National Film of School and Television, lecturers and students alike, individuals employed in the film and N industries and electro-acoustic and techno-coustic composers from the internationally acclaimed Rephlex Records label. Between them their work has been seen or heard on BBC radio and TV, Channel 4, Anglia N and Granada N in the UK, all of the major film festivals in the UK and a number of international animation and contemporary music festivals.

  • Daylights by Sarah Waterman (animation) & Elise Chohan (sound)
  • The Perception of Self in Virtual Community Environments by Peter Green (sound) & Amanda Terrington (animation)  youtube.com/watch?v=FfP6pfqpQWU
  • Escape by Edward Kelly (sound) & James Padley (animation)
  • Still Life by Suzanne Fossey (animation), Donald & Lawrence Bradby (sound)
  • Grunt Transistor by Tim Holmes (animation) & Richard Burns (sound)
  • Matryoshka by Leigh Hodgkinson (animation) & Barnaby Templer (sound)