For his latest trip, Neon Indian's Alan Palomo, sought out a forgotten pre-computer age analog technology with the help of electronics wizards Lars Larsen and Edward Leckie. Together, they created this video for "Mind Drips," in which a girl slips into a hole in her bed with her big psychedelic teddy bear. After falling through some ether of oscillating waves and colors, she plummets back through her ceiling, presumably caught in some melty euphoria for eternity.
That's not the crazy wizard part though. These effects were achieved using a device invented by Larsen and Leckie called the Lzx Visionary -- an analog video synthesizer that manipulates images in the same way an audio synthesizer does for sound. "Mind Drips" is the first music video to utilize this unique machine in which all of the visual effects are recorded in real-time using "abstract pattern synthesis, video feedback, and analog compositing." If...
That's not the crazy wizard part though. These effects were achieved using a device invented by Larsen and Leckie called the Lzx Visionary -- an analog video synthesizer that manipulates images in the same way an audio synthesizer does for sound. "Mind Drips" is the first music video to utilize this unique machine in which all of the visual effects are recorded in real-time using "abstract pattern synthesis, video feedback, and analog compositing." If...
- 12/6/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
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