Efecto tango
After listening to the performance of the electroacoustic eight channel work "Efecto Tango" composed by Daniel Schachter in 2001 and to it's revised and final version in 2003, Luis Pietragala asked the composer for his agreement to add images to the already existing sounds. In "Efecto Tango" Daniel Schachter intends to show his perceptions and feelings about the huge economic and social crisis in Argentina. For that purpose he worked editing and transforming very short fragments of different tangos all of them of at least one second length, and mixed his own recordings of people protesting on the streets in Buenos Aires on December 2001. The idea was more or less that the life, the crisis, the protests in Argentina have to do with the idea and the essence of tango. In fact, there are many tangos that mention the world "queja" (complaint) as a synonymous of tango. Luis Pietragala took the electroacoustic composition as a point of departure. He did not change a single sound and his images show his particular ideas, more related with the controversy between public and private spaces which to his view took Argentina to the worse crisis ever. Both artists agreed in showing the film like an "audio-visual composition" by Daniel Schachter and Luis Pietragala, because the music came first and the whole experience was about adding images to a musical composition trying to obtain a work where sound and image should have equal relevance. This goes beyond the usual format of the IMDB, so a warning must be placed in this point and the film should be considered just as it is.
- Released
- 2004
Details
Release year: 2004
Storyline
After listening to the performance of the electroacoustic eight channel work "Efecto Tango" composed by Daniel Schachter in 2001 and to it's revised and final version in 2003, Luis Pietragala asked the composer for his agreement to add images to the already existing sounds. In "Efecto Tango" Daniel Schachter intends to show his perceptions and feelings about the huge economic and social crisis in Argentina. For that purpose he worked editing and transforming very short fragments of different tangos all of them of at least one second length, and mixed his own recordings of people protesting on the streets in Buenos Aires on December 2001. The idea was more or less that the life, the crisis, the protests in Argentina have to do with the idea and the essence of tango. In fact, there are many tangos that mention the world "queja" (complaint) as a synonymous of tango. Luis Pietragala took the electroacoustic composition as a point of departure. He did not change a single sound and his images show his particular ideas, more related with the controversy between public and private spaces which to his view took Argentina to the worse crisis ever. Both artists agreed in showing the film like an "audio-visual composition" by Daniel Schachter and Luis Pietragala, because the music came first and the whole experience was about adding images to a musical composition trying to obtain a work where sound and image should have equal relevance. This goes beyond the usual format of the IMDB, so a warning must be placed in this point and the film should be considered just as it is.