‘The Bazaar and the cathedral 1.4’ is the result of a collaboration between composer Stefaan Quix and video maker Els van Riel. It is a drawn-out meditation on time and decay. A decelerated image of a colourful horizon, untainted but for a passing ship, is related to a minimalist sound piece, based on the first two notes of Glenn Gould’s ‘The Goldberg Variations’. Precisely calibrated tones are slowly pacing ahead, almost imperceptibly they change in frequency, pitch and colour. Sounds overflow into each other, always creating new accents and minimal shifts in tone, even though they can only be heard on a microscopic level. Music and image are constantly evolving but they give an impression of constituting an ageless continuum. This is beauty in its most simple form.