Re: Video Looping video art etc....

[mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 11:15 PM +0200 8/21/06, markfrancombe.com wrote:
>
>Video Synths were indeed a big thing in the 70's check out 
><http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm>http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm
> But 
>the best stuff I have ever seen is the work of Steven Jones from the 
>LOOPING  (hurrah... made it!) group Severed Heads.. Now if none of 
>you have heard them... try to... I only have Vinyl but they did some 
>graet stuff on 8 track tapeloops.

You're spot on as usual, Mark.  But since you've mentioned Severed 
Heads, you might try checking out http://www.sevcom.com .  Yes, Tom 
Ellard not only has a presence up on the Net, but he has been making 
the Severed Heads catalogue available for free (streaming) and 
purchase (download) for quite a few years now -- even pre-dating the 
the iTunes wave, cutting-edge guy that he is.

I'd agree regarding their visuals.  Although I photographed them back 
in the eighties, and their visuals were quite similar in style to 
those used by Chris & Cosey, Psychic TV, & SPK.  I wonder if the same 
person/people subbed out work to some of those other groups too.

>  hmm  now wheres my Amiga...?

Toasters rock!!!!  :)

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