Michael Lightborne
2021Lapidary
Michael Lightborne
Short experimental AV work, part of ‘Extraction: A Psycho-geological Report’ – a set of short audio-visual pieces incorporating sounds and images sampled from rocks, minerals and soil in South Birmingham. A stunning, spectral soundscape emerges from the films, developed using sonification – mapping the visual material to produce sound – and the sound manipulation method of granular synthesis. Developed during a period of semi-isolation during the 2020 lockdowns, these experiments form part of Michael’s current interest in ‘psychetecture’; a concept used in the 1980s comic Mister X to describe the psychological effects of architecture and urban forms.
Lapidary
Coventry Radiant City
Michael Lightborne
Coventry is a city of bright futures and utopian dreams, of experimental thinking and radical urban planning. Sometimes these dreams are not very well taken care of and those futures get lost in the layers of history that make up the blunt materiality of everyday city-life. This film attempts to track down and interrogate those dreams, find the remnants of utopia, trace the outlines of the future, cut through the layers, and perhaps learn a little more about the nightmares that crept into the plans along the way.
Coventry Radiant City
Silex
Michael Lightborne
Short experimental AV work, part of ‘Extraction: A Psycho-geological Report’ – a set of short audio-visual pieces incorporating sounds and images sampled from rocks, minerals and soil in South Birmingham. A stunning, spectral soundscape emerges from the films, developed using sonification – mapping the visual material to produce sound – and the sound manipulation method of granular synthesis. Developed during a period of semi-isolation during the 2020 lockdowns, these experiments form part of Michael’s current interest in ‘psychetecture’; a concept used in the 1980s comic Mister X to describe the psychological effects of architecture and urban forms.
Silex
Septaria
Michael Lightborne
Short experimental AV work, part of ‘Extraction: A Psycho-geological Report’ – a set of short audio-visual pieces incorporating sounds and images sampled from rocks, minerals and soil in South Birmingham. A stunning, spectral soundscape emerges from the films, developed using sonification – mapping the visual material to produce sound – and the sound manipulation method of granular synthesis. Developed during a period of semi-isolation during the 2020 lockdowns, these experiments form part of Michael’s current interest in ‘psychetecture’; a concept used in the 1980s comic Mister X to describe the psychological effects of architecture and urban forms.
Septaria