We collaborated with artist Bernhard Holaschke to produce a music-video for the song “Black Weed” by “Bad Stream”.

 

“In French, l’appel du vide connotes the siren song beckoning you to throw yourself into the void, down the abyss – simply because there is no worse idea. But what if what’s calling to you so irresistibly is not nothingness but abundance?

It is, indeed, the ever-present backdrop to our lives: information both redundant and relevant, breaking news, fake news, late capitalist memes, cat content, dystopian tech documentaries, iconic music clips, the White House live stream, endless playlists, sponsored stories, unanswered emails, selfies taken before getting up and then after, of expanding algorithms and monologues. And all of it only serves to ask one question: are you listening?

(Bad Stream)

 

This music video is a journey through the associative imagery of the internet.

 

All pictures were researched manually, collected and saved into a database. Bernhard Holaschke created fragmented animations and video-loops while the final video is completely reactively programmed by us.
The script calls the previously saved images, loops, and animations from the database and distorts, combines or recombines them. Hereby color spaces and moods also dynamically change as they are entirely coded. Furthermore, parts of the script react to the music and its frequencies while others withdraw immediate control.

 

The resulting animated flood of images develops an independent existence beyond direct authorship.




We collaborated with artist Bernhard Holaschke to produce a music-video for the song “Black Weed” by “Bad Stream”.

 

“In French, l’appel du vide connotes the siren song beckoning you to throw yourself into the void, down the abyss – simply because there is no worse idea. But what if what’s calling to you so irresistibly is not nothingness but abundance?

It is, indeed, the ever-present backdrop to our lives: information both redundant and relevant, breaking news, fake news, late capitalist memes, cat content, dystopian tech documentaries, iconic music clips, the White House live stream, endless playlists, sponsored stories, unanswered emails, selfies taken before getting up and then after, of expanding algorithms and monologues. And all of it only serves to ask one question: are you listening?

(Bad Stream)

 

This music video is a journey through the associative imagery of the internet.

 

All pictures were researched manually, collected and saved into a database. Bernhard Holaschke created fragmented animations and video-loops while the final video is completely reactively programmed by us.
The script calls the previously saved images, loops, and animations from the database and distorts, combines or recombines them. Hereby color spaces and moods also dynamically change as they are entirely coded. Furthermore, parts of the script react to the music and its frequencies while others withdraw immediate control.

 

The resulting animated flood of images develops an independent existence beyond direct authorship.