Glasgow Herald Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts
When this provocatively titled three-day festival of avant-garde sound and vision constituted itself last it gushingly promised to boldly go where few festivals had been before. It pretty much succeeded, too. This year, the film programme was expanded to include six separate strands, while the evening-only musical side of things appears to have contracted. It's an interesting balance, crucial to which is the shotgun marriage of live event to celluloid, where the performers effectively soundtrack silent works in a way that has already become de rigueur for more mainstream acts.
Here it works best when Text Of Light, featuring Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo alongside Alan Licht, guitar, saxist Ulrich Krieger, drummer Tim Barnes and DJ Olive on turntables, raise up a glorious barrage of electronic scree to accompany the screenings of five separate films by the legendary auteur Stan Brakhage. The effect of attempting to watch four separate screens of flickering abstraction is wonderfully, head-splittingly disorientating...
