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The liquid chase

30 Nov

Have you ever imagine becoming a liquid ?

Clip courtesy of RoyatlyFreeHD.com
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Music by Tom Fehy
http://opsound.org/artist/tomfahy/

Bill Viola

27 Nov

Luminescent beings captured on video by the artist Bill Viola. I really like how you have a clear concept of what you are seeing at every moment and still you can’t help but feel overwhelmed by the actual sight of it.

The Autechre Sound and Vision

20 Nov

The Autechre sound and the famous congenial video clip by Alex Rutterford offer an explicitly synthetic synaestetic experience to our senses. The computer generated textures of image and sound recall the promise of a limitless richness to our modern days once again. And this time (again) the creatio ex nihilo is in the hands of man… and it is rather available compared to heavy industry. The promise of the artificial paradise grows in the vast amount of “unofficial videos” created to the sound of Autechre and similar artists.

I think this version of the promise of an artificial paradise is typical for the 90’s and early 00’s.

Panaframe

11 Nov

Panaframe has an excellent Vimeo page, with several lively music videos of shimmering vistas to activate all the right endorphins. Here are two to get you started:



For those of us in the northern hemisphere who wish it was still summer, an iridescent tropical daydream for “In the Water” by Beat Connection.



And in this video, prismatic visuals highlight the ethereal sounds of “Upperground Stories” by Plastic Flowers.

Dusty Digital Psychedelia with Jesse Malmed

6 Nov

“seriously, there is nothing that you can give me, that I couldn’t turn into a black hole ”

If you are one of  the millions of fans of blurry psychedelic super-heil-man pixel disco art out there, you should check out Chicago based artist Jesse Malmed.

Rain Tears by Get People

4 Nov

This video utilizes a collage-like style to integrate clips into a psychedelic composition which ascends from terrestrial to celestial realms.

Robert Breer – Blazes

24 Oct

This experimental animation form 1961 seems to be made of imagery coming from the subconscious… It’s abstractness (of the visuals and sounds) makes it hypnotic, in it’s own “epileptic-ish” way.

Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer and Digging in the Dirt

23 Oct

I did the search three times… I just couldn’t believe that nobody posted this until now.

These music videos really left an impression on my young brain when I encountered them accidentally on MTV in the late 80’s and early 90’s.  I still get the feeling that these impressions get locked away again the moment the video stops. If you asked me now what happens in either one – five minutes after watching them again- I think I couldn’t tell you. There is something about a snail…

Siriusmo – Einmal in der woch schreien

22 Oct

Madeleine Aronson beautifully mixed this Siriusmo track together with  Fractals, computer games, flamenco dancers and old  movie cuts  excerpts.

The original video-clip for the track is superbly psychedelic as well.

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Illuminomi

13 Oct

A bewitched music video to Brian Jonestown Massacre’s “Illuminomi” made with bits out of legendary director Kenneth Anger’s classic 1964 “Scorpio’s Rising”.