DESCRIPTION:
tptflm is an interdisciplinary collaboration between film artist Allen D. Glass and trumpeter Kris Tiner. The project is rooted in an aesthetic that embraces the exclusive use of analog technology (16mm celluloid film and acoustic brass instruments) and improvisation as the fundamental creative principle. Although the procedural parameters are clearly defined, the logics that govern the interaction between music and film are subject to an emergent reflexivity that manifests in a unique way during each performance. Glass deploys both completed works on a variety of subjects and in-progress or "scrap" footage on up to three projectors simultaneously, speeding up and slowing down or reversing the film, and covering or uncovering the lenses to create a continuously changing field of visual activity. Tiner (whose performance background comprises jazz and experimental musics to various classical, popular, and world music styles) improvises extensions of melody, timbre, sound and space on trumpet and flugelhorn, synthesizing, enhancing and interpreting the film narrative in a kind of shamanistic way. The result is a collision of semi-autonomous aural and visual elements strong enough stand on their own, yet when they are experienced together a "third thing" emerges, triggering a complex and fascinating web of possible connections and meanings.

This is an excerpt from a performance at the Artists Union Gallery in Ventura, CA on January 30, 2010. The event was curated by Jeff Kaiser.

For more information: http://kristiner.com