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Cinema started silently. Images followed each other without sound and their clarity had to suggest the story. Later on, music was added to strengthen the associations and to get the audience more involved with the images. In Don Ritter’s work, the reverse seems to be happening. The music you hear has determined the images using a software programme (Orpheus) written by Ritter, and an interactive system. This interactive system, also designed by him, synchronises digital video images with live music. The tape was therefore made without editing. The video images in this system are arranged in categories so that, whilst it plays, the musical expressions are interpreted into the corresponding images. In this short and rapid ‘improvisation’, Musiciansan Tom Walsh and imageman Ritter have created a city with pedestrians, cars, pistol shots and a human head which seems to collect the hectic nature of modern city life like a boxer without defence.
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Willem van Weelden
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Sound, Music Tom Walsh, With Tom Walsh
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