Second Sun

Second Sun

2013, AUS/UK, digital video, various Led lights, photosensitive synthesizers, sound, 12 min.

A document of energy forms in states of vibrating transmutation, this audiovisual composition uses Leds, strobes and torches to create a mechanical ‘light-score’. Sound artist and composer Joel Stern orchestrates toy lights to sonic effect by bringing in close proximity light sensitive mini synthesisers and oscillators, which wildly object and protest to the candescence emitted by this discount store detritus. Animator and filmmaker Pia Borg guides a video camera with a careful eye picking up the subtleties created through lens refraction and colour play, seeking a cosmic resolution to the chaos of light and sound. Stern, who is in an indefatigable array of Australian bands, and Borg who is an award winning short filmmaker, coalesce in a shared and intensified abstract moment.