Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A new audio-visual work.
Audio created by Robin Rimbaud and Stephen Vitiello, inspired by Zen for Film (1965) by Nam June Paik. The original film, devoid of images, opens itself up to the nuances of its surrounding environment, as John Cage reported “and what you see is the dust that has collected on the film.” For this work Rimbaud and Vitiello have composed a new sonic work, accompanying a film that Rimbaud made AFTER the music, using old personal footage, as dusty as it is new. The audio work is a response to Pitzer Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma's new book There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract. His voice was the material with which much of the sound was created.
A new audio-visual work.
Audio created by Robin Rimbaud and Stephen Vitiello, inspired by Zen for Film (1965) by Nam June Paik. The original film, devoid of images, opens itself up to the nuances of its surrounding environment, as John Cage reported “and what you see is the dust that has collected on the film.” For this work Rimbaud and Vitiello have composed a new sonic work, accompanying a film that Rimbaud made AFTER the music, using old personal footage, as dusty as it is new. The audio work is a response to Pitzer Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma's new book There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract. His voice was the material with which much of the sound was created.
