John Van Rymenant, Michael Galasso ‎– Scan Lines (1984, LP, Belgium)

Original sountrack from « Scan Lines, or the paradise of the artificial eye » recorded live on September 16, 1984 at Performance Space 122 in New York City during an international tour including Japan, U.S.A., Canada, Spain, West Germany, Belgium.

Today, due to the proliferation of video images, the spectacle is in everything and everywhere. As its premise, “Scan Lines, or the paradise of the artificial eye” evokes neither the hypothetical Golden Age of the centuries to come nor the nightmare of a mediatized future. It approaches instead the idea of a totally new rapport with life, into which modern man will be irreversibly forced to enter. It is at once frightening and intoxicating, like every great adventure.

Created by the Plan K at the Toga Festival 84’ in Japan, « Scan Lines’ is a multi-media performance directed by Frédéric Flamand. The original score is a collaborative effort between the American romantic minimalist musician Michael Galasso and the Belgian electronic jazz composer John Van Rymenant.