Adam Sloan: Film
• film • interactive media • motion graphics • projection mapping •
• spatial sound design • field recording • music composition•interactive sound installation •
Murmuration (2018)
Film & soundtrack. Composed of 40 layers of footage recorded at Glasgow Botanical Gardens. Location field recordings manipulated and augmented through granular synthesis techniques and video-controlled arpeggiator. Low frequency oscillations used to manipulate movements of each video layer.
Screened at The Art School, Glasgow School of Art, 2018.
Clyde Built: Rise and Fall (2017)
A soundfilm using footage and field recordings at the derelict Govan Graving Docks on the River Clyde, Glasgow. Acoustic musical elements performed by Adam Sloan and Russell Dilnot.
Screened at Glasgow School of Art, 2017
Still Moving: Part 1 (2018)
Short soundfilm composed of a series of unrelated film footage, shot at various locations, selected & edited to illustrate a single unedited binaural field recording of a nighttime walk from a beach to the roadside, somewhere on the north coast of Iceland. Improvised upright piano recorded at Tjarnabourg Culture House, Ólafsfjörður.
Screened at Project Space, Glasgow School of Art, 2019.
Still Moving: Part 2 (2019)
Short soundfilm composed of footage shot at various locations. Sound design using granular synthesis system built in Reaktor and modular synth. Improvised upright piano recorded at Tjarnabourg Culture House, Ólafsfjörður.
Screened at Project Space, Glasgow School of Art, 2019.
I Work Alone (2019)
Animated music promo video.
Music & artwork by Gary Daly (China Crisis)
from the album Gone From Here
Out Of Here (2015)
Music promo video.
Music by: Legends Of Flight
from the album Mountain West
Directed by: Adam Sloan & Scott Spencer
From Fallen Light (Friend Or Foe, 2016).
Excerpt of music and film created during three month residency on the northern coast of Iceland. Part of a series of immersive AV performances and interactive film installations by Friend Or Foe, exhibited at:
What I Leave Behind I Bring With Me: Skammdegi Preview Show , Salur Myndlistarfélagsins, Akureyri, Iceland. 2015
What I Leave Behind I Bring With Me: Skammdegi Opening Show, outside Listhús Gallery, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. 2015
Fallen Light: Waves & Velocities, Tjarnabourg Culture House, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. 2016
Fallen Light: Mount Tindaöxl Ski Lodge, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. 2016
Afloat Inland: Liverpool Light Night, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, UK. 2016
Fallen Light: Also Festival 2016, Warwickshire, UK. 2016
From Fallen Light: From The North, Watt Space Gallery, University Of Newcastle, Australia. 2016
Afloat Inland: Ice Waves (Friend Or Foe, 2016).
Created as Artist in Residence at Skammdegi Festival 2016. Shot on the northern coast of Iceland.
Presented as projected visuals as part of Afloat Inland project, performed at Victoria Gallery & Museum for Liverpool LightNight 2016.
Location sound recording: Adam Sloan. Music: Adam Sloan & Laura Campbell
Silvermist (2015)
Field recordings, music & film
Immersion (2010)
Direction: Robyn Woolston
Music: Adam Sloan, Laura Campbell & Russ Dilnot.
Art-house film drama about the erosion of indigenous language in the face of a dominant super-culture.
Legion (after Richardson) 2013
Sound Design: Adam Sloan
Direction: Robyn Woolston
In response to Grundy Art Gallery's exhibition Kelly Richardson: Legion
The film features drawings by pupils and staff at Mereside Primary School, Holy Family Primary School, St. Kentigerns Primary School & Montgomery High School
A selection of animated clips taken from AV performance projects, using composite, stop motion and timelapse techniques.
Commissioned by Mercy/Liverpool Biennial for Wave If You're Really There series of performance events at St Bride's Chrurch, Liverpool 2008 - 2010.
Direction: Adam Sloan & Daniel Turner
Selected composite excerpts from video mapping AV performance. Commissioned by Mercy for Wave If You're Really There at St Leonard's Chrurch Shoreditch, London 2009.
Direction: Adam Sloan & Daniel Turner
Showreel 2004-2008includes excerpts of work taken from the following projects and events:
Din Collective Live NYC, Galapagos & Tonic New York 2004 - 2005. [A. Sloan & D. Turner]
Hive Festival, FACT Liverpool 2006. [A. Sloan & D. Turner]
Beneath The Below, Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2006. [A. Sloan & L. Jakeman]
The Horror Series, Museum Man & Static Gallery, Liverpool 2006. [P. Tarpey, A. Sloan, T. Seibold]
Quiet Little Englishman, Park Palace Theatre, Liverpool 2008. [S. Black & A. Sloan]
Showreel 2003 - 2009. Includes excerpts of work taken from the following projects and events:
Din Collective Sonar Gathering, Barcelona 2003 - 2006.
Din Collective Live, Storage Berlin, 2007.
Lost Soul, Liverpool 2004 - 2006.
Wave Machines, European Tour 2008 & Glastonbury Festival 2009.
Direction: Adam Sloan & Daniel Turner.