"Last words" always capture the imagination. Especially if they are the words of great historical figures such as Socrates or Christ. Socrates is the starting point of Satie's 'La mort de Socrate' and of Cage's 'cheap imitation' of it; the Stations of the Cross of Christ, in turn, is the inspiration for Liszt's 'Via Crucis'. With Satie, "the words" are still audible, but with Cage and Liszt they live on only as vague shadows in the score. Through a video projection by Lise Bruyneel, however, the words are gradually brought back to mind.

The visuals were quite static while the typography was disappearing during the death of Socrates (Satie and Cage). During Liszt ‘Via Crucis’, the focus landed on images, playing with the iconography of the via crucis during art history, combining details of paintings, drawings, contemporary photography and video creation.