Percussie VI

Percussie VI

1977, Netherlands, video, colour, sound, 3 min.

"Video graphics - the ultimate pictorial art", was the motto guiding the video experiments by Livinus van de Bundt, in collaboration with his son Jeep who made the electronic music.
Livinus did not judge the possibilities of the medium in the context of the institution of television and its frames of reference, but rather, on its own specific graphic potential. Earlier in his career he had been performing light projections with a mechanical and optical colour organ he constructed himself. In the middle of the 1970's he set himself the target of painting electronically with light, movement and sound. For this purpose, he now built his own image synthesizer and generator, marking one of the early beginnings of Dutch video art. To the aesthetic of the static image of the visual arts, Levinus added a new dimension, determined by electronics. Purposefully devoid of narrative or figuration his video works are abstract, rhythmical video paintings.