{"id":14543,"date":"2013-11-23T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2013-11-23T01:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:49:57","slug":"laraignelephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/23\/laraignelephant\/","title":{"rendered":"L’Araign\u00e9l\u00e9phant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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L’Araign\u00e9l\u00e9phant<\/em><\/a> (1967) is another of the strange animations made by Piotr Kamler in the 1960s and 1970s, this one being a 9-minute piece concerning the travails of “the spiderelephant”. As with Kamler’s Le labyrinthe<\/em>, the music is by the French electroacoustic composer Bernard Parmegiani whose death was announced this week, hence the link. Parmegiani had a varied career which included scores for a number of other films (among them a Jan Lenica short, A<\/em>, which I’ve not been able to find), and more commercial music than people at his serious end of the composition scale usually produce.<\/p>\n

Ubuweb<\/a> has a selection of\u00a0Parmegiani’s longer compositions, one of which,\u00a0Pop’eclectic<\/em> (1969\u20131973), chops up pop and classical recordings (spot the Small Faces!) in a manner which would become commonplace a decade or so later with the advent of sampling. The Kamler films, meanwhile, are all available on a single DVD <\/a>where the narration for L’Araign\u00e9l\u00e9phant<\/em>\u2014which doesn’t explain very much\u2014is subtitled.<\/p>\n

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L’Araign\u00e9l\u00e9phant (1967) is another of the strange animations made by Piotr Kamler in the 1960s and 1970s, this one being a 9-minute piece concerning the travails of “the spiderelephant”. As with Kamler’s Le labyrinthe, the music is by the French electroacoustic composer Bernard Parmegiani whose death was announced this week, hence the link. Parmegiani had … Continue reading “L’Araign\u00e9l\u00e9phant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,29,7,3],"tags":[4726,4055,4403,1157,119],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","tag-bernard-parmegiani","tag-jan-lenica","tag-piotr-kamler","tag-the-small-faces","tag-ubuweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Mz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}