Inspired by the poetic wanderings and wonderings of the Situationists ‘Dérive’ is a conversation between Rick Smith (Underworld/tomato) and myself through the streets of Soho in London. As with any conversation between friends there’s a lot of ‘um’ing' and ‘argh’ing', talking over each other and abrupt changes in subject as we respond to the street life and the unexpected events and interventions that we encountered on our walk ‘around the ‘block’. The recording was finished once the 20 minute walk was complete. Once back in the recording studio Rick processed the sound converting our dialogue into a singular, female, monologue, which had it’s own particular and peculiar rhythm and cadence. On hearing Rick's soundtrack I then created the visuals by filming vertically placed lightboxes in a studio, placed the camera on rails, and moved the camera through this ’city of light’, and then superimposed numerous passes in order to create a hypnotic equivalent.
John Warwicker