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Experience 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ and software artist Spot, a.k.a. Scott Draves. Five video tracks sync with electronic music by jhno, Spool, dj vordo, and mbb. Three more tracks sync with music by techno-violin sensation Kenji Williams (ABA Structure), including an original track not released elsewhere. See three unique and original styles: Electric Sheep, Dub Visuals, and Bomb, each with a documentary explanation. Includes looping tracks with solid backgrounds for use by VJs, and progressive-scan for videophiles.
"Beautiful and mind-boggling." --Rudy Rucker, father of cyberpunk
With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of Spotworks, Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation. His electric sheep are the fluttering Gaian spawn of networked computers and genetic algorithms, while his visual 'dubs' of Ernst Haeckel's fin-de-siecle scientific lithographs add a resonant historical dimension to trippy visuals. Mind-melting stuff, and refreshingly devoid of the usual fungal kitsch.
Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and contributing writer to Wired Magazine
This isn't just trippy wallpaper -- it's not even just art. This is garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking up a new species made of code, decisions and cooperation, and this disc is a petri dish swimming with the organisms that deserve to succeed us here on Earth. I for one welcome our new a-life masters.
Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of Boing Boing.
| Catalog Number: MC-224 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ |
| Copyright: 2004 |
Length: 111 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: All regions |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC/EAN: 881359000008 |
| Label: Spotworks |
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Films In Compilation
kunstformen der nature black dub directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2002,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:15:00
based on Ernst Haeckel's 19th century lithographs, the
"black dub" is a journey through a zoo of fantastic organic forms.
This track has a solid background and loops seamlessly for VJ use.
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kunstformen der nature white dub directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2002,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:13:40
The twin of the black dub but with a white background and
more colorful imagery.
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kunstformen der nature 2x2 mix directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2003,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:09:00
a remix session of the black and white dub tracks,
primarily based on fractal feedback made with the "2x2 multi" effect
of the V4 mixer.
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arabesques: worlds within worlds dub directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2003,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:09:26
a visual dub made from historic islamic arabesques from
morocco and andalucia. the structure of the animation is based on the
history (and future) of our universe.
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dub visuals documentary directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Documentary,
2003,
DV,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:11:08
a documentary explaining the history and concepts of the "dub
visuals" tracks 1,2, and 4.
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electric sheep: best of 2002 directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2002,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:12:43
a continuously morphing sequence of
"electric sheep", each one with its own genetic code and created by a
distributed evolutionary algorithm run on screen-savers all over the
world. This track has a solid background and loops seamlessly for VJ
use.
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death & rain directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2003,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:07:38
a remix of the electric sheep by kenji williams set
to his own music from the "faces of epiphany" album.
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believeth directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
2002,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:10
a remix of electric sheep to jhno's music.
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sheepumentary directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Documentary,
2003,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:08:09
technical, conceptual, and artistic documentary
about the electric sheep screen-saver.
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understand directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
1998,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:13:05
made with the realtime visual musical instrument
"bomb", a custom algorithmic sound-responsive synthesizer based on
artificial life.
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inside the bomb directed by
Scott
Draves
USA,
Animation,
1999,
Computer Graphics,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:49
a documentary about "bomb".
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