http://www.nkhstudio.com/pages/popup_bassline.html
Bassline Baseline, 2005
total run time 21 minutes
Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates
the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of
the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in
the last two decades of the 20th century. The
narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological
mediation within product innovation and creative
expression. The dead-panned 'documentary' video
attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail
and how increasingly more options, parameters or
intermediaries devised during a tool's research and
development phase don't necessarily lead to increased
expressivity or virtuosity during the tool's lifetime
of actual use, unless the super-structure of its
cultural context is dramtically reconsidered.
Haven't had a chance to watch it but it sounds
interesting...
Shimone/Justes
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