Never Kill A Snake With Your Bare Hands
TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo.
Whoa. Now that is some truly superb sound design. I am talking earache-of-the-sublime good. Plus, to these ears, it sounds like a new take on sonic hauntology. Sure there are some glitch elements at play in the piece but the way in which the sound designers placed the VO from the Alphabet Conspiracy within an audio collage made up of sci-fi synth pads and dusty, mid-century educational film samples makes this soundtrack feel like it's being broadcast from a radio station run by ghosts. Which is totally rad. Of course the visuals give this short video that 1950s science class feel. And the font is definitely cool. But the audio! The audio here is killing me. Also, I really wish we had an Electronic Automatic Sound-Spectrograph Computing Digit Translator Playback Recognizer Machine. Do you think if we reverse engineered it, it could kick out a transcendental signifier or two?
Links:
via @ILMsux
Summer Nights Are Made Of Glowing Bug Beams & NOLA Glitch
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.
Charlie McCarthy's long exposures of bugs under a street light makes one cool ass :45 video. I saw this on kottke a couple of days ago and have kept coming back to it for another look. The music is from Telefon Tel Aviv, a New Orleans IDM outfit. IMHO their cosmopolitan groove glitch suits the erratic, glowing, tendril-like dance of the night bugs quite well. Hats off to everyone involved in this.
Check out Charlie McCarthy's vimeo channel for more digital visual goodness.
Styrofoam Turntable
From Teenage Engineering via ISO50.
"I would be interested to buy a Styrofoam Turntable."
This reminds me of the styrofoam container face I found lying face up in the alley the other day.
Styrofoam, so bad for the environment, but yet, so versatile.
