Ken Jacobs, Sunn O))), Martin Arnold, and Steve Reich

Recently, a re-imagining of culture, and really of semiotics in general, has been much on my mind, by way of various approaches to audio visual representation.


Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs is a film maker who, using found footage, shifts the focus and context of the images and brings things, before unnoticed, into plain sight. This includes, but is not limited too:
Backgrounds
Extras
The Physical Screen Itself
and more


Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) is a group, led by Stephan O'Malley, who record for Southern Records. They play excessively long metal songs, in which one chord is frequently sustained for lengthy periods of time. This creates room to explore each chord individually, and takes them out of the traditional context of the metal "riff."


Martin Arnold
Martin Arnold is a filmmaker from Austria (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) who takes small portions of "classic" cannonized films and stretches them in a way, repeating the smallest movements over and over, thereby putting them in a whole new context. (if you have the chance to see a print, please do)



Steve Reich
Steve Reich is an experimental musician and composer, often lumped in (whether fair or not) with the "minimalist" "movement" of the late fifties onward. In the sixties he made several tape loops of speech, which repeated over and over, much as the films of Arnold, but more freely, as if the sentences took on a life of their own.