Gradually getting back into video and uploading some of my degree/personal video work.
(Excerpts from) The Milk Lab Tapes 1995 (remixed 2002)
(NSFW, contains super8 of birth and a rather charming 1950s porn lady, quite quaint really…)
Milk Laboratory was an experimental music night – well not that experimental, we’d play Aphex Twin, LFO, Throbbing Gristle, Air Liquide – industrial and dark ambient. I did the visuals, using found video, adverts, stuff I’d shot around Sheffield, and remixing Super8 that a friend had collected and was doing loops from. I also used to shoot a lot of video from buses – my degree show was shot in the bus station – and super8 shot on the moors (which will be another film/post) and upside down reverse video shots – literally I took VHS tape and respliced it upside down so the helical scanning drum would read correctly yet backwards – and it worked! I loved the way the colours reversed and the image broke up.
Posted it here because a) it contains some music I’ve not released yet – from 1992-95 it contains the pieces under my Reality Engine moniker – you might be surprised from my pop mashups where my history lies, in more extreme noisetronica/experimental cutup work, that would be more akin to Merzbow, Zorn and Burroughs than Soundhog or Go Home Productions!
- ‘Killed or Murdered (Headcleaner mix)’ (the WW Catholic Radio sampling one, with feedback through an effects unit)
- ‘Test Broadcast’ which I did for a film in my second year (and yes that is me on vocals)
- ‘Semi Automatic (Headcleaner mix)’ which was a cutup I did on the Amiga, again with feedback, and the track I was working on for my degree installation –
- ‘Counter Surveillance Program’ which included loads of mobile phone scans. The rest of the tracks are bits from the N.E.M.C.
You can find part two here – both p1 and 2 were the ‘remix’ re-edit I did in 2002 from the 15 minute original, taking out the boring morphs and really dodgy stuff. Yes there was dodgier stuff!
And here’s a video I did of people smashing up televisions. Yes as you will see in future posts I liked to destroy things, including intentionally glitching video:
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