“The Sound Of – Shanghai – Video”
«Feldermelder – Shanghai»
– A slightly moving still by Manuel Oberholzer. «An attempt to capture the nightly nothingness while transforming random lights into an emotional journey.» Artist, installation artist, musician and mad scientist Manuel Oberholzer captured the video that gave rhythm and birth to his musical piece Shanghai. A visual work as method of composing music: In Shanghai the artist captures the feeling of his nightly strolls through empty spaces of the Chinese mega city Shanghai sitting for while in the center of a else wise busy road, giving a sense and feel to the juxtaposition of the daily chaos of the city with the nightly emptiness and quietness. It is a poetical view of nothingness, distorting the real feel of space and time, giving an emotional value to the else wise lonely traffic lights while shifting everything into its right place in the greater scheme of composition. Render everything into meaning. «Feldermelder – Shanghai» is part of the EP «The Sound Of» released on -OUS records as flexi disc with digital EP: