The Garden of Electric Delights

The garden of pleasure and torture that the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch conceived and visualized as a surreal triptych over five centuries ago was given a beautiful title by posterity: The Garden of Earthly Delights. Billy Roisz has titled her latest production a variation on this name, and it is a fitting one: her Garden of Electric Delights offers pleasures that seem less earthly and more “electric”. A grey ball of confusion approaches, in which immaterial signals dance a kind of micro-organic spectral tango. Color seeps into the field of vision; the vertically placed red, blue, and green tones are kept in motion by the interference signals from analogue apparatus. A vague division of the field of vision into three parts becomes noticeable. The music oscillates between field recording, vintage electronics, and noise. (Stefan Grissemann)