Illuminati Destroyer // Renard Frak
21 Jan
From one of my favorite psy-contributor // Renard Frak
he usually gives himself three artistic directives for his new creations as he notices:
1) I have to create the melody based on the improvised percussion that I begin with. I then sort out the best rhythms, and I apply a different note from a diatonic range to each drum (using the trigger technique). From this mess, I keep only the melodies that stand out on their own.
2) I draw inspiration from the period when the Beatles were at their most eccentric. The sitar kicks serious ass, let’s reintroduce it in our music !
3) The video must be inspired by the roaring twenties (1920), outrageously eccentric, as close to real life, from the pure feeling of creation, by eliminating as much as possible all cartesian reflexes.
22) It will be what it will be ! And anyway, being a Utopian, I believe that true democracy no longer exists, that we live in a lie, that we must free our minds from the manipulation of the mass media and large corporations hungry for power, blood and money. Let us give us back the title of citizen and not merely voter. So, like it or not, it is reflected in my creations …
All of this, because I consider that everything sounds the same these days. The music scene needs to be shaken up, we need to have laboratories of creation. Also, mixing items that do not go together has always fascinated me. And trying to wake our consciences by all possible means, even those never envisaged, at least it’s a start …
*** Note : Many backgrounds and lighting effects were downloaded on the Footage Island channel. Thank you very much!
SYNESTHESIA (Michel Gagné, 2014. Music by Gheorghe Costinescu, 1973)
20 Jan
Simply stunning collaboration across the ages. The last time we featured Michel Gagné on DPV it was 2010.
“Cellophane” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (3D)
18 Jan
simply a very classic psychedelic video for a very classic psychedelic garage rock tune.
enjoy!
(and don’t forget to get your stylish 3D goggles out for this one!)
[many thanks to Roland!]
H OM E OMOR PH ISM (2014)
17 Jan
This Dome A/V Performance will melt your eyes, you must watch in HD.
A continuously transforming, complex morphological and geometrical representation of the information contained in natural images. From the animation talent at Ouchhh Motion Lab, the forms were inspired by the diversity of New Mexico’s landscapes, though it certainly looks like an alien abduction into generative hyperspace took place on a distant plateau.
“Pickle Surprise” by Tom Rubnitz
17 JanOh my, it’s Pickle Surprise! Tom Rubnitz, director of the 1987 cult documentary “Wigstock: the Movie”, takes us on a groovy psychedelic journey in this 1989 gem. Can you find everybody’s favorite drag star Ru Paul?
The Video Data Bank website has a higher quality short clip and offers a DVD of Rubnitz’s work for purchase.
Clubfeet – Everything You Wanted
17 JanI have great respect for simplicity. I admire this video for its use of just one feature of film editing to give us something to follow and anticipate the whole way through.













