Déserts (1994)

Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avantgarde composer Edgard Varèse 18851965 The Ensemble Modern a contemporary music group based in Frankfurt commissioned Viola to create a visual score for Varèses Déserts after discovering notes by the composer referring to an unrealized image component of his composition The resulting filmvideotape was produced with the European television stations ZDFArte In October 1994 Violas Déserts premiered in a live performance in Vienna with conductor Peter Eötvös and the Ensemble Modern