TEST123 is an audiovisual project by Dutch multidisciplinary artist Toni Rodero. In this experimental music video, all drum / vocal parts and visible instruments are played in real time. Rodero transforms everyday environments into a living piece of music, merging field recordings, performance art and visual poetry in a hypnotic journey through sound and image.
With a bold interdisciplinary approach, TEST123 blurs the boundaries between music and film, challenging how we perceive and document the world around us. Rodero reveals the hidden rhythms embedded in ordinary spaces – from the resonance of industrial halls to the ambient noise of urban streets – and turns reality into a spontaneous, living composition.
In this sonic and visual experiment, Rodero captures the invisible harmonies of life and translates them into a living score that unfolds like a music video. Every step, every surface, every subtle vibration becomes part of the performance. TEST123 pushes the boundaries of what defines a music video, blending found sound, improvised composition, experimental cinematography, and performance art into a cohesive, sensory-driven experience. The project is a love letter to the hidden sounds of the world, a poetic reminder that music is everywhere—if we choose to listen. The work reflects Rodero’s deep fascination with the dialogue between sound and space, an obsession shaped by his background in visual art and music composition. TEST123 doesn’t just document these fleeting moments—it performs them in real time, inviting the audience into Rodero’s creative process, where film becomes music and music becomes film.
Director statement
For me, sound and image are never separate. They are different frequencies of the same experience. In TEST123, I wanted to challenge the idea of a music video — instead of creating a soundtrack to match the visuals, I wanted the visuals to perform the music. Every environment already holds its own sound. It’s all there, waiting to be played. My job as an artist is simply to listen closely, to capture and compose the world around me — and in that act of listening, I become part of the performance itself.
Bio
Toni Rodero is the creative alias of Richard Korteland, a Dutch multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, sound art, and performance. Born in Gorinchem, Netherlands in 1973, Rodero’s artistic practice spans over three decades of experimentation across visual art exhibitions, site-specific performances, and audiovisual installations.
With a strong foundation in electronic music composition and experimental filmmaking, Rodero’s work dissolves traditional boundaries between sound and image. His process is intensely hands-on, composing music from field recordings, filming and editing his own footage, and often physically performing within the work itself.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
