Wednesday 12 September 2012

NIght Fishing with Cormorants by Betsy Kopmar

Night Fishing with Cormorants
by Betsy Kopmar
Sound by The Headroom Project- Winter Skies from Dominatus Illuminato Mea














Night Fishing with Cormorants echoes the japanise sumi and ink drawing styles, while retaining a modern feel with colored overlays of red, and a soundtrack that links past and future in its tone.
The film is abstract with a sense of contrast between the black ink and the white background, with red highlights adding a sense of another layer, depth and an extra dimension of colour to the piece. The blurred edges and gentle movement add to the sense of a picture come to life, as lines shift and join together, only to separate into a lined texture that moves like smoke or creates a new plane in space.


Delightfully spacious and open, this soundtrack suits the animation well.  With low tones and high tones easily distinguishable, there is a feeling of sky and room to fly.  The combination of acoustic and electronic instruments blends well, and reflects the spontaneity and rawness of the animation, with added elements of more controlled and technological structures such as the red spiral seen near the start.
The voice and string parts add a classical feel, grounding the animation in an old worldly spirituality, and the reverb adds again a sense of room to move and space to the piece.
Around half-way through the piece, hand percussion comes in, lifting the energetic level higher, while still retaining the long string notes which keep a sense of calm and peace.
Around the 3:30 mark, a lovely sound effect is heard which recalls the sound of feathers or wings, heard over long gentle string synth tones.  The sounds pan across the stereo field from right to left and back.  The ending is particularly effective in portraying the sense of birds flying across the sky.






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