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    29/8/12

    LOMOWALL

    Who doesn't love a bit of Lomography? Positioned as professional for the amateur photographer, it has done wonders for simplifying the process and making sure that almost anyone can take eye-catching pictures. Cameraphones, instagram be damned. Lomography is the choice for the non-professional picture taker.

     

    The Museum of London present LomoWall, an exhibition undertaken with Lomography, and the first of its kind in the UK since 2007. The display, like the cameras, is startlingly simple and equally as attractive. Wrapped sixty-five metres around the entrance and rotunda of the museum (based, appropriately enough, in London Wall) are three hundred thousand pictures submitted by more than fifteen thousand people from thirty-two countries, all under the theme of 'inspiring and achieving in London's Olympic year'.

     

    And the Museum of London is surely the most germane of locations, representing the most wonderful and awesome of the capital's present and history. And this is precisely what the LomoWall is: a series of individual moments of 2012 - a historic year in the history of this greatest of cities - captured and celebrated by ordinary people, inspired across the world.

     

    LomoWall is at the Museum of London until 06 January 2013.

     

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    28/8/12

    ORAMICS TO ELECTRONICA

    It's been a sound of the avant-garde for longer than you might think; electronic music has been gaining in prominence since the end of the Second World War.  Mostly, back then, it was all still one big experiment.  Musicians do have more of an idea of what they are doing now, but only because there is this rich heritage of electronica available to build upon.

     

    Oramics to Electronica is a new exhibition at the Science Museum.  It explores the history of electronic music, from the 1950s to the present day, charting its evolution from the underground to the pop charts.  Co-produced with a group of electronica musicians, this exhibition celebrates the creative endeavour of these Brave New World artists, themselves attempting to write the future of music using electric pianos, homemade synth drums and all sorts of unique instruments made from deconstructed household appliances.

     

    The work of three studios is showcased: Electronic Music Studios, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Daphne Oram all produced electronic music that broke the mould of existing forms in the 1960s and 1970s.  Oramics to Electronica is part of the Public History Project, a participatory new method of exhibition comprising experimental displays and that explore the histories that make up today's culture.

     

    Oramics to Electronica is at the Science Museum until 01 December.

     

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    24/8/12

    BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO

    Annually, two or three films are released that will be remembered for being the best of the year.  There are films that a generally agreed to be great, but mostly these two or three films will vary due to differing tastes.  Berberian Sound Studio is a film that will be overlooked by mainstream audiences, though it does not deserve to be.  It is one of the cleverest, sharpest thrillers of recent years and has enough in it to sustain retrospective delight.

     

    The eponymous location is a sleazy post-production film house in Italy; it processes the sound of only the most sordid of horror films.  Gilderoy is the shy, introverted engineer hired to work on the latest film by Italian horror maestro Santini.  With a homesick longing for his home in Dorking, Gilderoy gradually becomes lost in a surreal world of backbiting actresses, bloodcurling screams and horrific screen acts.  Paranoid to the point of mental and emotional despair, obsession with the unknown (and unknowable) grips our hero.

     

    Berberian Sound Studio falls into the genre of Italian giallo films: it is a dark, mysterious and sometimes horrific thriller.  Director Peter Strickland has become the Great White Hope of English cinema, since leaving his home country for Transylvania to make his debut feature Katalin Varga.  Opening to international success, he has been brought home on gilded wings.  Berberian Sound Studio is a masterclass of subdued chills, comparable to twentieth century classics such as The Conversation and Peeping Tom.  All praise is high praise for this film, and it deserves the full cinema experience.


    Berberian Sound Studio is on limited release.

     

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