I hadn't seen the second bad vilbel video since old amp days, and was
psyched to see it again; this edit seemed a bit longer, I can definitely see
that you wouldn't like it as much. I had never seen the basscadet video,
wasn't super impressed but it was fun to see. However, I really really
liked the new gantz graf video. A great visualization of the song, I
thought. Many of my non-IDM-fan friends who don't listen to much of this
music are kind of overwhelmed listening to an autechre track, especially
their recent drum heavy stuff; they have trouble sorting it all out. This
video is awesome in that it's essentially a visual guide to all the
harmonic/melodic shit going on at once in the song and can really guide your
perception of the music, bringing parts of it to cognition that you might
miss (of course all us IDM wouldn't ;). For instance, right in the
beginning, the gray thing is vibrating really fast, but as the nice
light-BPM melody comes in, the thing starts to shift its axis of rotation
nice and slow as well. Don't sell this short, most videos may be
synchronized to a tempo represented in their songs, but with IDM such a
video often chooses a tempo at a time out of a selection; this video is
synchronized with all tempos, for the entirety of the video/song. I haven't
seen too much of that.
I've seen many IDM videos and was an amp watcher for years, and while plenty
of videos are calibrated to the music and conveys a sense of tempo/beat,
this video ranks up there with coldcut videos as great examples of pure
music visualization with an appropriate aesthetic. So far, when I've wanted
to listen to the song again, I throw in the DVD, not the CD; it's a more
enjoyable experience for me to listen and watch.
As an aside, the best live example of this I've ever seen was by Panasonic
~3 years ago at Tramps in NYC, while they were on a tour with Trans Am.
Their whole performance, they projected a black square against a white
background, with some sort of modulation to the music fed into the project
so that the square undulated along with the tunes. It was so cool, the best
video accompaniment to a show I've seen to date. The show established too
high a bar for me, I've been disappointed every time I've seen Panasonic
since...
-squiddity
----- Original Message -----
From: "dj pie" <rachel@zot.electricrain.com>
To: <CAPOIIEE@aol.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] autechre dvd
quoted 11 lines i was pretty disappointed in all the videos, really. they reminded
>
> i was pretty disappointed in all the videos, really. they reminded
> me a lot of those cheesy 'mind's eye' videos from the 80's with music
> by thomas dolby (yay thomas dolby!).
>
> the music rox0rs, of course, but i was bummed by the videos.
>
> -rachel (aka dj pie)
> piesarenice.net
> --
> <iNoah> sed -ne '/^$/!{H;x;s/\n//p;s/.*//;h;d;};/^$/{x;s/.*//;H;}'quoted 4 lines On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 CAPOIIEE@aol.com wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 CAPOIIEE@aol.com wrote:
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> > does anyone know why they edited the second bad vilbel video on thequoted 1 line dvd? i was so dissappointed, the original version they used to play on
> > dvd? i was so dissappointed, the original version they used to play onquoted 8 lines was a lot better
> > was a lot better
> >
>
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