This is another dvd work that draws on “found” material as its basis. A few relatively simple video and audio editing processes were applied to a scene of just 14 seconds taken from 22708 Types: Die Utopie im Niemandsland (1992), a documentary on John Cage by Henning Lohner. The scene selected comes from a video sequence on John Cage’s piece Five, in this scene the music “lies” beneath the images, like a sound ambience, and accompanies the images or vice versa.
My preoccupation with film and avid interest in music in recent years stemmed from the need to compress this scene (which I found extremely absorbing) and simultaneously draw it out, to lend it an even stronger authority, particularly in terms of the relationship between sound and image, and ultimately create an independent work with transparent connections between the newly constructed elements.

These elements are:
in the images - stationary as well as two moving elements (the car driving past in the foreground; the small car in the background at first stationary, then moving out of view; the stationary surrounds) and the light constantly changing in line with the temporal extension of the scene (an “artificial” alteration to the colour saturation that is not an integral part of the original material);
in the sound - the acoustic instruments originally employed and their transformation into edifices of electronic sound colour, the altered temporality (deceleration, acceleration, reversal), and the newly created spaces (through, in part extreme, stereo effects).

Bernhard Schreiner