October 31, 2004
Hallucinogenic Poem - Video Suite from 1989
I've uploaded my video suite from 1989, Hallucinogenic Poem, three short videos improvised to microtonal industrial art rock, that I wrote around the same time. It's rough looking work, but it does evince a kind of DIY artiness that was prevalent at the time.
The video was quite successful for me, playing at a Philadelphia Art Cinema house as part of a festival in 1990 and regularly being featured on Cyberia a national cable access art video program from the time.
The music is layered and harsh microtonal industrial rock done solely from an old Roland Mt32 multi-timbral synthesizer module. The video was improvised using a system I developed with my Amiga 1000 and Photon Paint generating hallucinogenic patterns from simultaneous color-shifting and brush pasting. The video was dumped straight to tape and then duped. These MPG2 files are digitized from the master tape.
Making the SVCD is easy, grab all the contents of the folder above and burn it to a data disk. Most DVD players can play SVCD these days. Enjoy this taste of madness from 1989.
One warning, if you're prone to epileptic fits do not watch this video as it may bring on a episode due to the intensity of the colors and surprising shifts in texture.