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Experimental backdrops for an imaginary noise band.

I was thinking — what if I had my own noise band? I’d construct the videos and projected stage backdrops for it the same way I construct my noise tracks — clip by clip, layer by layer, manipulation by manipulation, mix by mix… The manipulations are done pretty similarly to the way I do them for my still photography (but with very different subjects), and the clips come from … everywhere … in my video library.

They don’t always work — that’s why they’re experiments — and I still get people asking me where the soundtracks are on the silent ones, but I’ve probably got a few more of these in there somewhere. And that strapline’s actually a little cheeky if you know my personal situation.

Nowadays I’d do this stuff live with a real-time video mixer (I have one and love it), so these are kind of (beloved) dinosaurs for me, but it’s the same thinking, the same manipulations that I started with here.