By frag_editorial I have made several video essays of various lengths on the concept of aLiveness (an audience experience phenomenon). I have also written a 15000-word chapter on aLiveness in my PhD thesis. But I always wanted to make a simple short video, a sort of a teaser, that can illustrate what I mean by aLiveness, something that could be considered an audiovisual equivalent of a 200-word abstract. Hence, this two-minute teaser for the theory of aLiveness happened.
About the maker
Sureshkumar P. Sekar holds a PhD from the Royal College of Music, London. His research interests are audiovisual culture, audience experience, audiovisual essays, and film music. Some of his peer-reviewed academic video essays—published in journals such as [in]Transition, Tecmerin, Alphaville, and Music, Sound and the Moving Image—have featured in the best video essays of the year list in the Sight and Sound magazine, and they have been nominated for the Learning on Screen Award, the Adelio Ferrero Award, and was announced runner-up for the Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize 2022.
Liveness, Liveliness, aLiveness: an empirical study on audience experience in Film-with-Live-Orchestra concerts – http://bit.ly/myphdthesis
Website: http://sureshkumarsekar.com