Khrystell E. Burlin
Khrystell Burlin is a New Media artist, photographer and contemporary music composer.
His multiscreens films and video installations
have been shown in several festivals and museums throughout the world
(London, Paris (Theatre du Chatelet), Berlin, Barcelona,
Montreal, Tokyo
and Sydney amongst others), and have been very well received by both
the
public and critics. As a researcher, he also wrote several research
articles focusing on music, film, and post-modernity.
Strongly
influenced by ancient arts and mythologies, as well as by classical
cinema and silent films,
Khrystell Burlin develops a very metaphoric, non-realistic and
estheticist approach floating between the classical and the modern. The
main
purpose of his work is to explore the interconnections between music and visuals by creating layers of superimposition and
montage inside the shot.
Very similar to the musical concept of orchestration, these techniques put an emphasis on the concept of
Compositing, (a concept which is often contrasted with that of montage) and allow him to create moving images scores in which colors, shapes and movements melt into polyphonic visual chords.
As a music composer, Khrystell Burlin has been engaged in several
collaborative projects involving visual arts, film, and contemporary
dance. Influenced by the American repetitive school and popular
electronic music, his works have been performed in several concerts as
well as receiving airplay on several radio stations, including France
Musique.
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