Nothing New
A series of moments stitched together, like a hazy memory, paints an intimate portrait of the noise band: Nothing New. With uncanny ability, the band transforms any and every moment into an opportunity to reflect, play, listen, and experiment.
We journey with the group on their chaotic road trip as they investigate contemporary listening culture.
The documentary translates the band’s energy and noise visually and candidly mirrors their fragmented, tangential approach to life and music. All the while acknowledging the filmmaker's subjectivity, who blends into the adventure.
We journey with the group on their chaotic road trip as they investigate contemporary listening culture.
The documentary translates the band’s energy and noise visually and candidly mirrors their fragmented, tangential approach to life and music. All the while acknowledging the filmmaker's subjectivity, who blends into the adventure.
Featuring in order of appearance:
Sascha Brosamer
Abi Tariq
Lisa Schlenker
Filmmaking: Ronen EldarEditor: Terence Chim
Animator: Murray Warburton
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NOTHING NEW is a nomadic art collective negotiating experimental sound and social performance. Using light, presence, action, technology and sound, they create site-specific situations to push the limits of contemporary listening culture.
The instruments they use (including the piano, the gramophone, the harmonium, the voice, the electric guitar, and mobile devices) serve as signifiers that reference the history of listening culture. Noise becomes the all-encompassing symbol of the now, and the performers and audience grow into a network of transmitters and receivers.
'NOTHING NEW’ is an experimental endeavour; for now, it could be labelled as a kind of ambient/ambivalent (world) noise music meets ‘GrainField’: a web-based application which uses wifi to turn the audience’s smartphones into speakers as well as instruments, turning the audience into active participants and, in a sense, co-creators of the live experience.
The documentary follows them on their journey in a run-and-gun style, as we get to know them better. It blurs the lines by moving from observing to sometimes participating or collaborating with the group. Ultimately, as the group explores contemporary listening culture, the film candidly attempts to capture that energy and paint a portrait of the group and its individuals.
* 'GrainField' was designed by Benjamin Matuszewski and Norbert Schnell as part of the CoSiMa research project developed at the IRCAM, Centre Pompidou Paris.