Man Ray - The Return to reason (Le Retour à la Raison).1923. Soundtrack: Ortiz Morales & Kinematikom

 Le retour a la raison (the return to reason), from 1923, the first film work of the Dadaist-surrealist artist Man Ray, is a practically improvised and spontaneous film, urgently presented the day after its creation, at a Parisian Dadaist session (possibly the last official of this movement, called "Du Coeur à Barbe") in which if we stick to the plot narrative it is closer to a pure experimental work (pictorial-sculptural) of Dadaist style, than to what is understood usually by film, since they are, above all, experiments with photographic paper or celluloid as a support according to a procedure patented by the artist himself and called by him "rayographs" or "rayograms" (placing objects and substances directly on the photosensitive paper and exposing it sharply to light). In this case, he explains that he sprinkled salt and pepper and used cloves. He also films nocturnal sequences of a fair, and a mobile sculpture dancing with its own shadow. Everything seems to indicate that the enigmatic "return to reason" after so much incoherence is the appearance of the final naked torso of Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), the undisputed muse of the Parisian night and, at that time, Man Ray's sentimental partner. . The artist himself says in his memoirs that the premiere was very unfortunate and poorly received by the public, more than because of its rational inconsistency (something that the Dadaists advocated and defended, beginning with Tristan Tzara, promoter of the event), because of the unfortunate coincidence of that broke twice during its short projection, and in one of them leaving the room in darkness for an uncomfortable time.

Músic: JOCO, by Ortiz Morales, performed by the group Kinematikom:

Carmen Morales..... prepared piano 
JuanLu Montoro...... supercollider
Samuel Pelaez....... percussion
Ortiz Morales....... noises, effects and direction

                                       and with the invaluable collaboration of ....

Ensemble of bassoons "Fagotería del Tenllado" (directed by Francisco Manuel Puyana) and
Horns Ensemble "Trompíssimo" (dir. Lorena Fernandez Cabello)

Recorded on June 28, 2022 in the Orchestra Hall of the Martín Tenllado Conservatory by Mr. Miguel Olmedo, with the mobile unit of the "Artesonao" recording studio in Malaga.