Lightwaves Soundwaves

This video's poem is a collection of wholesome ideas inscribed on the video images of original handmade abstract artworks, both by Dwayne Jahn. The soundtrack was specifically created for it by Oxford Improviser Lawrence Casserley with water sounds, rainsticks and his signal processor instrument

THE FIRST LAUDATION to Dwayne Jahn and Ebba Jahn:
Lightwaves, Soundwaves was selected as the winning film in the category of Collaboration by Hali Autumn for Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022!
Here is the juror's statement:

It’s my interest in abstract conceptions and the mediums chosen to collaborate for this film that struck me, they have ambivalent qualities. The mediums are not out of reach, not too professional, or inaccessible, they are contemporary. A juxtaposition of painter, poet, and sound artistry creates an elemental, triptych trifecta.

The foreground features words, trance-like, playing to the ordinance of our mind’s eye.
The background is liminal, shape shifting, loud in color covered by foreboding moisture. Rain drops melt the colors, bonding with the water-based paint only to, slowly, erase the lines and form new shapes. At times, the illusion is that there is the possibility of a barrier, between the rain, the paintings and the words.

There is more going on in this film than it presents at first viewing. “Transcending cause and effect”. The words distract like a disillusionment to the painting: words in the foreground, painting in the background and sometimes the other way around. The sonic ripples harmonizing with the hypnotic ripples faintly overlaying the loud colors collaborating with the words; close ups of what could be influenced or had reminded me of a visit with Kandinsky. The psychedelic future is in this film, pushing sensorial limits, a cinematic synesthesia with its purpose seemingly not to eliminate the sense of senses but combine them into a dreamlike harmony.