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.
'Twine' shows a girl who dreamily touches passing lengths of cloth and one is immediately drawn into her game. In 'Dirk Sweelinck Missed the Prince' a running sound of fast harpsichord riffs can be heard. This nervous sound contrasts sharply with the slowly passing images where time seems to be of no consequence. In 'Happy splash' and ' Una Passeggiata in Tram etc.' the dialogue between image and sound is elaborately worked out. We hear a slow whining violin just before a curtain of hanging strands opens by sweeping upwards. All this waving and weaving end up in erotic dance gestures: the curtain of strands now hangs still and behind it two large wet mops start swaying back and forth vigorously. The appearance of a red car makes for a cheerful surprise. Rhythm and accents in the music relate ever so subtly to changes, not of the image but in the image. These changes in the images in turn relate to the music with a great sense of timing. A remarkable effort and dialogue.
– Kees van Gelder
Dino Campana was a modernist Italian poet. For the song 'Passeggiata' a prose-poem was used about the electrical strings of the violin and the indefinable stirrings of water and, of course, the singing of the quay-wall. The harpsichord piece 'Dirk Sweelinck Missed the Prince' which makes up the flash, is a toccata taking off to a flying start. Sweelinck didn't answer (or answered too late) an invitation by P.C. Hooft to perform at the Muiderslot. Prince Frederik Hendrik, who led the uprising against the Spanish, had already departed for Weesp with P.C. Hooft.
– Louis Andriessen
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Production: Bifrons Stichting, Amsterdam (Netherlands) & BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
Marijke van Warmerdam ° 1959, Nieuwer Amstel (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Louis Andriessen ° 1939, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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