'Ballade' (6 min 25 seconds) is a collaborative project between Mark Howden and Laurent Antonczak made in 2007.

It was part of FILE festival screening (Sao Paulo, Brazil) in 2007 and exhibited in an EA Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand) for 3 weeks.

'Ballade' is the result of an arbitrary process of recording and reordering of various audio and visual sources archived whilst traversing the land distance between the East and West coast of Auckland, New Zealand. The rationale of this structure simultaneously dislocates the real-time experience of recording, to a kind of a fragmented topography of location, time and place, whilst providing a strategical framework that re-addresses the notion of spatio-temporal composition within digital art practices. 'Ballade' is an exercise in ordering an articulation of incongruent social spaces, in connecting spatial localities and the communities, in reflecting on todays communities in relation to water by creating an abstract entity that evokes rhythmical and tonal space, whose framework is utilised to explore an aesthetic and conceptual relationship of rhythm and continuity.