Curated by Iliyana Nedkova, Initiated and produced by New Media Scotland

Premiered as part of Black Box strand of the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival (2004), and launch of a DRIFT booklet with programmes notes and essays by Iliyana Nedkova and Shane Danielsen, Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. From September 2004 touring across the UK and internationally.

Screenings include British Council, Belgrade, Serbia; The Museum of Voivodina as part of 8thVideomedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia; An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Skye (2004-5).

A hand-picked collection of short digital films and videos by UK artists and film-makers interested in sound art, noise, acoustics and experimental music. Over 90 minutes featuring 18 films revealing the cinematic relationship of sound and image. DRIFT features artists' films and videos by Victoria Clare Bernie, Chris Bowman, Rob Kennedy, Kelly Richardson, Holger Mohaupt, Susanne Ramsenthaler, Aura Satz, Paddy Kernohan, Richard Ashrowan, Alexander Hamilton, Shannon Tofts, Simon Tricker, Peter Collis, Emily Richardson, Susan Black, Ian Helliwell, John Butler, Jayne Parker, John Carson and Michelle Deignan.

Part of DRIFT – a project established by New Media Scotland in 1999 as an ongoing exploration of sound art and experimental music, including radio broadcasts, moving image, publications and occasional live events. More information about DRIFT at www.mediascot.org/drift.

Initiated and produced by New Media Scotland, Edinburgh. Supported by the LUX, London and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology.

Presented at the Centrale di Fies (Dro), in collaboration with the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy, on the

Jury: Marina Abramovic (performance artist), Sabine Folie (curator of the Kunsthalle, Vienna), Renato Barilli (art critic and lecturer), Andrea Lissoni (Xing Gallery, Milan), Fabio Cavallucci (Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento) and Barbara Boninsegna (Centrale di Fies, Dro).

Intrasonic folds inwards into the body's intra-uterine space by employing a theremin, and expands outwards, as the body extricates itself from the coffin-like cavity of a grand piano.

Part 1: A musician plays the electromagnetic waves of a pregnant body using a theremin. Referencing ventriloquism, as in 'belly-speaking', the body becomes a musical instrument, an antenna, a medium, through which a pre-verbal, pre-vocal otherworldly voice is transmitted. (See above for an earlier incarnation of this project, entitled 'Ventriloqua').

Part 2: A performer unplucks himself free from the entangled web of the chords of a grand piano, like a frantic Houdini. The eviscerated piano is vandalised to become a labyrinthine mess of impossible sounds. The choreography and music collapse into one single act of escapology.