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The propelling rhythms of both music and image form the main elements in this, the first of a series of 26 videos, and sometimes, these rhythms link up together. The music of blaring brass as played in Andalusia during festivals and processions, was recorded by Cairaschi in the spring of 1992. At first, the images, consisting of rapidly passing landscape (Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy) taken from a train, more or less follow the pulses of the music, but they rapidly assume their own existence. The ever more rapidly passing trees, bushes, grass, signs, gravel and rails fuse together into patterns and structures with a character of their own. Fences and poles form ever changing compositions of lines, providing graphic accents. Red flowers serve as colour flashes surrounded by hundreds of silver-like sparks. Despite, or perhaps because of the rapid speed of the images from the train window, the patterns sometimes seem to stand still. If the brain permits its, the eyes enjoy a whole range of compositions that are never established, and the ears are caressed by stirring music.
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Ingrid van Santen
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