Two of the most significant artistic media which started in the 20th century were the moving pictures and electronic music. These media had remarkable resemblances in the way of procedure. Recorded on tape, both sound and vision were able to be converted and manipulated through similar techniques such as "cut and paste", "slow motion", "montage", etc. The correspondences between the worlds of Varese and Stockhausen and those of Vertov and Eisenstein are plenty.

Interestingly the media started within larger organisations such as the film industry, academic institutions in USA and national broadcast stations in Europe. This and other economical and technical facts have been overthrown by the home comuter which now makes it possible for any composer and artist to explore the media of digital sound picture. MASH Video Trilogy is a result of this relatively new situation.

The three works- skin add scratch (1996), White Hole (1997), Stretched in Dark (2001)- together form a trilogy of combination of electronic music and moving images.

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.

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 different cities in Sweden.