Martin Janíček: Reflection 808

This piece was composed as a mix of eight layered loops from a studio in Troy where we experimented with MAX/Msp software. For the recording, I banged on a railing at a water tower in Porto, which was filtered through a mirror filter and inserted in segments into the film material. The visual concept of the composition (see drawing) emerged from an inner feeling of a night landscape with the surface of a lake, a tangle of tracks and scarlet mixtures. Motion in a closed system of loops, mirrors, stereotypes, slogans...