The disgruntled’s video clip, “Lacerated Memory” reminded me of the sixties and early seventies psychedelic aesthetics of The Prisoner (1967), The Wickerman (1973) and maybe that weird Polanski film vampire film,”Dance of the Vampires” (1967). The effect is quite chilling and weird but definitely reverberates.
(Link: Richard. Thanks!)
My question to you today is: can the youtube hive mind trip? or: whose hallucination is this?
V stands for..: Bert Brecht had his V-fx (distancing effects). Originally intended to make you think all the way “across” the distance set by the “Verfremdung” (estrangement), it seems by today’s standards you have to put in lots and lots of V’s to get things at least a little bit real.
Exquisite corpse: The surrealists had automatic writing. It was a bit uncanny to realize that language was making sense while you did not intend to. Who is making sense here? And when language can make sense without your intention, who did just say that, or: what exactly is dependent on your intention? Thoughts like that can easily become psychosis inducing.
So before the internet, before the notion of the hive mind the question of superindividuals was there, too. Social technologies like language can be conceived as collective unconscious mind. So, why shouldn’t it trip?
“I believe that one day we could have an accidental singer on top of the charts” The Gregory Brothers gave us “accidental singing”. What a nice term!
Sleeping Beauty In meta-musicals like Singing in the Rain people started dancing in the middle of everyday situations. A rhythm surfaced from a silly walk and the dance – it seemed – just followed naturally. By the act of movies like Singing in the rain the world was enriched with virtual dance waiting to be released from the rhythms surrounding us. Now our world has been enriched by a song sleeping in every news flash, voice or video post, in virtually all recorded language, waiting to be kissed awake by autotune.
Maybe V-effect has been translated to virtualizing effect without anyone intending, maybe the rainbow has never been so bright, so vivid, so intense, maybe one of the most familiar things today is living in a post-psychedelic culture.
I used to love this band so much! long stoned afternoons of a Jerusalem summer listening to Broadcast, but that hadn’t happened for a couple of years now. Sadly, I started looking for their videos only this week, when I heard about the untimely death of Trish Keenan, their lead singer. The hypnotic object spinning in this video is a dream machine, that 7eit posted about here. So beautiful.
As a vjay and juggler (beginner), I particularly was impressed by this work…
hope you’ll enjoy it !
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This is a collaboration with Jay Latour from France. This is really only the start of an investigations with combining object manipulations and projections, pleasantly surprised with the results though!
Object Manipulation: Jay Latour
Programing & Music: Kyle McLean
Software: VVVV, Ableton, Reason
An Excerpt from my ongoing experiments with fractal imagery and sacred geometric visualizations. This video infuses thematic imagery of flight and transcendence with moving mandalas I designed in After Effects. Music by Ambientium.
Visuals Created and Mixed by Elijah Parker
“Always Something Better” by Trentemoller
This is almost like a tiny ode to this blog: the pink elephants from Dumbo in sync with the Sun Ra version of the song. Both the Dumbo scene and Sun Ra have been featured on this blog last year.
And as a special bonus: the mind warp trap door to childhood memories of long winter evenings. Uncanny and curiously those guys seem to be moving with the uplift of boredom and the glamour of a little temperature (if you have not made all of your childhood memories yet.. don’t wait another year).
Love to you!
Since tomorrow is already new year’s eve, I will use this oportunity to wish a happy new year to all our psychedelic readers around the world. May you have a great psychedelic year!
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