PURE Soundbath - Slow TV for Lockdown

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PURE Soundbath from Chris Lewis on Vimeo.
A lockdown film made 9000 miles apart - "like going on holiday for three weeks".

Australian Filmmaker Chris Lewis and English Composer David Lol Perry teamed-up around the world to create ‘PURE Soundbath’, a new Slow TV film to calm lockdown nerves (but does make us want to travel again!).

David, best-known for his charting 2017 Warner Classics album ‘Three Wings’ featuring Winchester College’s Quirister boys, ‘met’ Geraldton, WA based Chris, a cameraman for broadcaster ABC, on Twitter. David was unable to continue his sell-out ‘Soundbaths’, gigs where guests lie down and drift-off, immersed in hi-res music. Chris wanted to make a ‘Slow TV’ film, that too, mesmerises.

The music was recorded in ‘3D’ or ‘Binaural’ sound to replicate the surround sound of the soundbaths. Chris’s sumptuous photography includes stunning underwater shots, even underneath waves as well as gorgeous drone panoramas. It was largely shot in Merimbula, New South Wales. The result is an engaging and extremely calming experience. The hour-long film is available to buy or rent on Vimeo.

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The Slow TV Podcast recorded an interview with Chris Lewis and David Perry about their film, find it on THIS LINK.

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Slow TV - Fire as Therapy

This little cartoon speaks volumes of the peacefulness of looking at a fire for ages. I'm all for having a real wood fire, sat around with friends and family, enjoying its light and warmth, the slowly observable diminishing of a piece of wood into ash.

NRK broadcast a live transmission of a real fire burning over several hours in February 2013 - the Nasjonal Vedkveld, like an American channel broadcasts a loop of a burning fire for several hours each Christmas. Watching TV obviously is not the same as enjoying a real fire, but indeed, some of the aesthetic is communicated.

This time for making space, indeed, going slow, is good for the mind. Time takes on a different quality. It may sound a bit pyromaniac, but enjoying a fire is good medicine.

Thanks to Last Lemon - reproduced with permission.

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