The 20,000 attendees witnessed a plethora of music, light, laser effects, and images in the heart of the city. Its water tower was repeatedly bathed in a rash of the most fascinating of colours, while laser beams, split-second synchronized to the music, streaked across the night sky.
Recurrent highlights were a total of 800, various, automobile sounds, such as the slamming of car doors, the screeching of windshield wipers, or the din of wheel rims beaten with drum sticks, played correspondingly to symphonic-orchestra instruments, that composer Marios Joannou Elia had integrated into his work that "melded the whole into an aural experience of a kind that had never before been heard".
That experience was topped by an orchestral arrangement, paired with the rising noise of an engine running and the sight of a water tower outlined by laser beams - the rousing finale of a multimedia show worthy of the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile.
(Jim Evans)
