a-very-sensitive-device
2002.01.31 - 2004.01.24
Lisa Slodki and Sara Ludy interview
Excerpts from Lumpen magazine
Sara: How would you describe your aesthetic?
Lisa: Lush emotional metaphors
Sara: Your work has a repetitive quality that's often genuinely trance
inducing, at least to me.
Lisa: Loops set up a rhythm where you can get lulled. Loop aesthetics
can also become really annoying and that's something that I'm constantly
fighting to avoid. I try to be picky with the clips I choose and use only
clips that I feel can sustain attention at least long enough for me to
queue the next series of images. I also try to keep the focus on the images
that multiple clips make together. If I can make the images evolve in
surprising ways, this gives the looping purpose. I'm trying to avoid relying
on the visual phenomenon of experiencing time counterintuitively. Ultimately,
this is a novelty experience and gets boring quickly. I also use loop
aesthetics because it feels similar to how we experience memory.
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Sara:
How is your work experimental, atmospheric and/or environmental?
Lisa: Sort of like what happens on a road trip. There's music, a constant
visual focus, momentum and suddenly you find yourself having introspection
that you would not otherwise. I think that's what we try to do with
a-very-sensitive-device, set up conducive environments.
Lisa: What would you say is the ultimate thing you would like to achieve
through your music? Do you have an agenda?
Sara: Imagine this, a world that is a cross between Ladislaw Starewicz's
Winter Carousel, the ice cave of Logan's Run, the Vanilla Dome of Mario
World, and the electric fields of Tron. Now if you were to visit this
place, and you were walking through a futuristic amusement park with
holographic space creatures, silver hover boards,and trees that look
like gigantic spiral lollipops, and if you could imagine the type of
music that would accompany such a place,