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To Make Oxygen Burn On the construction of picturesque soundscapes Morten Meldgaard The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture morten.meldgaard@kadk.dk Keywords. Film; Music; Architecture; Philosophy “He plunged in and swam about, and let the small jangling noise of his troubles be swallowed up by the innumerable laughter of the sea”. “Eh?” “((((((( ((((((((((( ((((( - quotation from the classics. Some people say it means the dimpled surface of the waves in the sunlight - but how could Prometheus, bound upon his rock, have seen it? Surely it was the chuckle of the incoming tide among the stones that came up to his ears on the lonely peak where the vultures fretted at his heart”. D.L. Sayers: The Man with no Face, 1928 This essay comprises a series of reflections on the relation between music and moving images in the work of composer Peter J?rgensen and architect and film director Morten Meldgaard. It concerns itself with the making of the audiovisual space for the documentary “Kim”, about a Danish WWII resistance fighter. It is the fruit of a long collaborative practice between composer and director, between sound and picture. This collaboration started out as an attempt to negotiate the traditional hierarchy of sound and picture as expressed in the “Soundtrack” or the “Music video”. The essay tries in its own way to trace a line through a series of diversions into film, painting, architecture, mapping and music. It is a sort of constructivism that searches for a specific picturesque relation between image and sound in the construction of worlds. Further more it is a precise section through “the complex” that the actualization of a virtuality consists of. It is a series of local events, dealing with the aforementioned sound-picture relation, which reveal the process of going from the virtuality of raw footage to actualized form of a film. In this respect the essay is about concrete ways in which to objectify problems and actualize virtualities. How to m