There is always room for coincidence.
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One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
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I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.
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Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
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I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.
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The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
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