The piece starts with a black night and sparks which are springing from a fire, but shown upside down. So you see flashes of light falling down. The image is faded into a video where we look up in the air while driving in a car at night. And so we see the streetlights and the beams of a bridges following the same route as the sparks did: they also seem to 'fall down'.
Kannenberg constantly plays with real images, semi-real images and abstractions of images. The tempo with which images alternate and progress is in sync with the music and because the images are interesting to look at indeed constantly shift and move you just watching. Not so much in expectation of what is coming as in savouring the moment. Kannenberg is a master in selecting images and colors. With the use of software (MSP?) he creates an imaginary landscape just at the brim of reality and abstraction.
Some 6 minutes into the piece a clearly discernable melody is started (with the use of a shakuhashi?). In the meantime horizontally oriented blurred images are presented, really enchanting.
The sounds that Kannenberg uses range from acoustic (in the beginning we hear quasi realistic sounds in a quasi space) to melodic (albeit very minimal).
After 10 minutes real, discernable images appear again. This time accompanied by a synthetic tone. The image is distorted and resolution turned down until we see only blocks, which are then afgewisseld by a neat rows of blocks which each tilt ever so little. An easier lower music with a pink noise low in the background brings up rasters of some sort of cloth which fades away and the leaves and trees are again in sight.
The images and the sound match perfectly and I was not a moment bored. Sometimes keeping your attention at the screen can be difficult. But here the alternation of images (real, semi real and abstract) is very well structured.
The structure of the piece is clearly indicated with returning images. E.g. near the end the fire (of the beginning) is shown again but not upside down. The O that is on the cover certainly refers to a circle in the composition, and vice versa.
There are of course also flaws. Sometimes the video editing is a bit too rough (like the big O at 1'30") which immediately is clear when the rest is so smooth and the appearance of the O in a large focus of a painted o on paper (18'00") seems a bit odd within its visual context. And certainly the final few minutes are a bit 'easy' with too clearly discernable images. Which is strange considering the finesse that is shown in the earlier 30 or so minutes.
It is my opinion that Kannenberg has shown that, aside from his audio works, he also is a very good, promising video artist. Please carry on! |
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