In the audio and video intstallation Horseman the audience sees a walk down a street in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Once or twice, a man appears on a horse; he appears as a displaced but magical figure between the skyscrapers of the Central Business District of the East African metropolis.

The video is accompanied by the soundscape of the city, interspersed with musical chords that first come from the city itself, but then extend to the haunting singing of a woman. It is an excerpt from the song “Prayer, Protest, Peace” by Max Roach and Abbie Lincoln.

The sound for the video comes from a record player that is synchronized with the video material. An Arduino computer synchronizes the analog sound with the digital image. By separating the sound from the video, I tried to shift the focus explicitly to the sound that explores the rich and transcendent soundscape of the city as a piece of music. The record “Horseman” is on the one hand the soundtrack to the video, but also carries the soundscape of Nairobi in its grooves.