Tripping across the YouTube galaxy
Excerpts of four videos influenced by abstract painterly ideas of ‘visual music’, the translation of sonic emotions into visual forms and colors. The videos do not have a soundtrack.
1. Polychrome Variations
2. Synchromy #2
3. Tempest in a Teadance
4. Tidal SimPhony
The visuals were created using a combination of 2D animation and generative 3D applications.
Nice projections with mostly floral themes and footage of people grooving to them.
Aired in 2017.
List of videos in this episode:
Intro animation by Ricky Jonsson Jr.
Interstitials by Sam Hochman and Kristel Brinshot
Isla’s Day by Jeremy Sengly and Winona Regan
Autonomous Paradise by Filip Kostić
SMITE by Thomas de Rijk
The Jungle by Joseph Melhuish
Yeasties by Jordan Speer, video processing by Robert Beatty
Pin Pon (gameplay trailer) by Theo Triantafyllidis
LadyPecs blasterX by Andy and Sam Rolfes
Selfish workers by Alexandre Louvenaz
Quiet Time by Elenor Kopka
Intergalactic Absurdism by Tea Stražičić; Server Ho by Andrew Thomas Huang
Basilisk by Geriko
Sunset by Ezra Miller; GIFs by Jeremy Sengly and Winona Regan
A favorite here at the DPV, the one and only Kokofreakbean. It’s been a little while since we have seen anything new from this master of fast-cut, brain meltingly glitchy and surreal visual onslaughts, but you may be sure that more is on the way.
Aired in 2017.
List of videos in this episode:
My Expanded View by Corey Hughes
AB95 by Wham City Comedy
Glucose by Jeron Braxton
Scissorhands Unboxing by Thu Tran
Doorcuts by Zak Tatham
Why Cecco Beppe Does Not Die (Scratch ‘n Sniff Edition) by Ben Coonley
Day Off 1 by Jillian Mayer
Robotomy by Sam Hochman and Alex Reynolds
End of Simulation by Milton Melvin Croissant III
Lyrica by Shana Moulton
Let’s go on a trip with Jake down the Paper Trail.
Recently, I’ve become aware of the existence of Vaporware, an interesting genre from the early 2010s which meshes together some cheesy and dreamy 1980s and 1990s sounds and aesthetics in some often pretty weird ways. Watching a couple of these vaporware videos can really get you dizzy. Is vaporware psychedelic? I’m not sure, but I think there’s definitely something interestingly surrreal going on there. What do you think?
