Flash is an international contemporary art/music project whereby visual artists from home and abroad, contemporary composers and musicians are invited to react to each other from within the context of their own disciplines. It is about the development, execution and presentation of nine DVD's.
A succession of skies, rural sights, dunes, cows in a meadow, sailboats on the sea, in short a series of horizons. Ger van Elk traces a line from horizon to horizon with the 17th century paintings he fixedly arranged. The music starts with a humming female voice while the landscapes, with their unbroken horizons, glide past. The humming moves along a thin sound line and changes tone serenely, like the paintings change in size – from small to big and back again. The image unexpectedly flips round and we are in an upside down world with 19th century paintings. The clear blue at the bottom turns the landscape into something frivolously buoyant. And again the camera tracks the connected horizon, but now the stuffy world of the 17th century paintings changes into something very contemporary. The flash zooms in on the feet of the composer, which are swinging back and forth and are being driven – or directed – by the humming voice of the visual artist. The feet are a fraction out of time with the voice, creating the effect of a director whose timing is slightly off. And once again the world is turned upside down.
– Ellen de Bruijne
Music never comes to a standstill, time always moves forward, even with the longest tones. The horizon appears to be static, but changes with the ticking of time. A humming female voice and a low recorder render a slow melody, later responded to by a husky guitar. With violin and bass running through, and a piano disguised as a harp, a buzzing clarinet, muted trombone and a lost vibraphone. Colour determines the melodic continuation, time determines the degree of standstill.
– Maarten Altena
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Production: Bifrons Stichting, Amsterdam (Nederland) & BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (Groot Brittannië)
Ansuya Blom ° 1956, Groningen (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Paul Termos ° 1952, Hilversum (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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