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Botborg – To Bypass a Sensory Roadblock

In the past Botborg has sort to cautiously invite its audience into a mostly pleasurable and collusive audio-visual environment. “To Bypass a Sensory Roadblock” is, however, no such invitation. Rather, it is a sort of televisual strangulation that seeks to engulf the viewer in a swift takeover of sound-color calamity.

A new phase of evolution beckons our arrival. Time to remove the ‘blocks’.

8 January 2013 - Categories: Blog, Tags: electronic music, glitch, noise, psychedelic, synaesthesia, video art.

Botborg – Biofeedback in Simulation

Part of Botborg’s work concerns the induction of new mental states by the means of repeated exposure to machine-aided synaesthetic media. “Biofeedback in Extended Simulation” is an abstract exploration into a sound-color world where glitches transform into rhythms and interruptions come to consume our focus. Reactions to this simulation can be unpredictable.

Original version (6 minutes):

Extended version (11 minutes):

6 January 2013 - Categories: Blog, Tags: electronic music, installation, noise, psychedelic, synaesthesia, video art.

Masaaki Yuasa – Mind Game (2004)

This film is a great mix of constantly changing animation styles. And this ‘changing trick’ is used to it’s full effect when the protagonist meets ‘God’:

Although the animation is wild and wonderful, while watching Mind Game I started to wish that the music was somehow more integrated into the film. This scene remedied this:

10 December 2012 - Categories: Blog, Tags: animation, Japan.