Divine
Intervention/New Wave of New Wave, 2003
Video film, 264 mins, colour with sound
Divine Intervention/New Wave of New Wave is a re-working of a piece originally
made in 1996. ‚New Wave of New Wave‘ depicts the story of three
amateur musicians attempting to form a band. Set one evening in a rehearsal
room the band has every possibility of achieving their conceptually progressive
dreams of sounding like a sure fire hit mixture of the Velvet Underground
meets the Sex Pistols meets Sonic Youth only for everything to fall apart
due to a mix up in the band hierarchy.
The new version consists of four different edited versions of the original.
The scenes in the films were arranged in four ways in accordance with a system
devised in reference to Schoenberg’s 12-tone method of composition
and the melody row from Hanns Eisler’s ‘Kammer Symphonie’ of
1940.
