Sweet Nightmare
Artist: Jolanta Lapiak
9.6 minute video.
Edmonton/Calgary, 2004.
Sweet Nightmare is a video-music performance, featuring a reality within reality and loop of distorted time-space. It emphasizes on both visual-based and vibration-based music as an alternative view of music, first composed by myself as Signer. It bent on a traditional semantics of music.

Music, inspired by the chaos and fractal theories, is the main experimental focus in this work. As music is associated with rhythmical fractals as found in everything in life from mountains and ferns to vibrations and behaviours, it diverts from the traditional notion and association of music with sound. In the visual element, its music is based on editing cuts, repetitions of images, dances, hand movements and other visual images. In the sound component, vibrations were edited in tune with visual music, regardless of how sound would fit it, as opposite to the traditional process of editing sounds regardless of how vibration might fit.