" Vision is linked to sound. You need a sound/image synergy. These two forces, if they go in the same direction, create a third force much more powerful than the other two. "
The best-kept secret of the French underground, Bernard Szajner remains unclassifiable: composer, but also set designer, videographer, screenwriter, performer and finally brilliant self-taught, Bernard Szajner has been attached for more than forty years to the union of musical and visual forms, inventing his technologies for this. His work is not without echoing a certain tradition of synesthesia around images, texts, and music. Bernard Szajner was inspired by the novel Nova, by Samuel Delany, to create, in 1980, the "laser harp", an instrument that reverses the classical relationship between music and light, where the second is at the service of the first. With this artistic tool, music and lighting effects are on an equal footing. Audio and visuals are then engaged in a unique relationship of interdependence.