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The three works- skin add scratch (1996), White Hole (1997), Stretched in Dark (2001)- together form a trilogy in which various combinations of electronic music and moving images are explored.
Our primary concern in creating this trilogy has been to proceed beyond Cage-Cunningham tradition, in which audio-visual co-ordination has been eliminated in order to break up its primal-subordinate co-existence. Our objective has been to re-introduce co-relation between the two components without one element being submissive to the other.
more about the Trilogy
In the trilogy three kinds of moment both in sound and vision can be traced; a) the moment of repetition, i.e., a moment which is repeated exactly or slightly modified: b) the moment of succession, i.e., series of moments with no or little resemblances to or connection with the other parts; c) the moment of progression, i.e., a single extended moment which proceeds with changes and variations within a specific frame of expression and ends without an accentuated sense of finality.
Each element in each piece of the trilogy has different type of the moment described above. The various combinations of these moments between audio and visual experiences can be well traced throughout the trilogy.
Each work of the trilogy can be shown independently as well as a trilogy as a whole.
Stretched in Dark was comissioned by the Swedish National Institute for Concerts. The whole trilogy was chosen for a national tour by the same institution and was shown at 8 cities in Sweden. The trilogy videos have been widely shown internationally, including Not Still Art (White Hall), New York, and Transmediale (Streched in Dark), Berlin.