Video

Rarely has the multiplex structure of any film or videotape been so totally integrated as in the transcendental composition Music with Balls, conceived by Terry Riley and commissioned by the Dilexi Foundation in 1968. It was the work of three men whose separate disciplines meshed in synaesthetic alloy: Terry Riley, composer; Arlo Acton, sculptor; John Coney, video mixer. Music with Balls is a dialectical synthesis of nonverbal energies that strikes deep into the inarticulate conscious. It inundates the beholder in megabits of experiential design information, aural, visual, and kinetic. To understand it we must understand its four elements: music, sculpture, cinema, and video. (Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Expanded Cinema: A Tribute to Gene Youngblood’s Book 2