Welcome to Pixel Palace

Welcome to Pixel Palace

Pixel Palace is the digital arts and new media programme of the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Our mission is to bring as many people as possible together to experience, enjoy and engage with the past, present and future of cinema and the Pixel Palace programme extends and delivers this mission by working with new media artists, technologists, curators and audiences to not only reflect upon cinema’s past, but also its expanded present and all-pervasive future. 

Keep in touch with us via email, twitter and our Pixel Palace facebook group to find out what's happening.

Clicking on the radio button at the top right of this site will take you to our broadcast project, basic.fm. basic.fm stands for Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture.

January's basic.fm commission is:   

Aprosodia by Ed Carter

Aprosodia:
“… an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms of language”

‘Aprosodia’ uses a traditional musicbox to translate dialogue into audio. An Alphaville quote was stamped into a musicbox score:

“Time is like a circle which is endlessly described. The declining arc is the past. The inclining arc is the future.”

The looped audio represents time, using the visual metaphor of the circular score passing through the musicbox. Responding to technological transitions in cinema and radio, ‘Aprosodia’ combines digital and analogue processes at their most simplistic.

The direct text-sound correlation leaves melody in the hands of the scriptwriter, and rhythm with the
performer.

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