Hox Vox

This afternoon I modified last tiny details and saved master file for Thar Desert, 3rd videoclip from an Outskirt track.

This time I worked on a more ordinary videoclip concept, but I couldn’t just trace out. I recorded by a viewcam me playing Thar Desert and extracted a discreet number of frames (a nightmare cutting them out, really), then assembled again in animated sequence form.

Alberta Marchiori gave me pictures she shooted in Egypt last December, so I made a great use of them to create the environment and some absurdities (as usual).

The result is obviously grotesque as I still believe in The Residents / Frank Zappa / Pere Ubu and share at 101% their nothing-is-sacred approach.

Belief: Greed videoclip is OK, I uploaded it in Youtube Hox Vox Box channel.

I worked on a video of mine which won a couple of animation contest prizes in first 90s, called “Peyote”. The strange process was 1) clean the video like it was done nowadays 2) add animation part missing and create… an aged film aspect, like it was an old documentary film. Seems strage but the real video damages were very bad, the computer-generated are somewhat pleasant, they look like vintage but without destroy too much the footage.

Plot is about a peyote experience by a late 60s hippie on mexican mesa. I think is a good companion for Belief: Greed, as song and images are both dealing with psychedelic (but song is more aptly tagged as avantprog/rock in opposition).

I just finished first videoclip from Outskirt, and uploaded to my new Hox Vox Box channel on Youtube.

I’ve chosen Belief: Wrath because that anti-song (which I tag as “grindcore classical”) was very apt to a sarcastic point of view about live concerts. I was always surprised how people are totally mad during them, but calm and serious just before and after.

I mean, it’s more noticeable than people disguised in carnival… seems like they were waiting for eons to give vent to their need of raising against normal boring lifestyle. It sound me as a clear pent-up driven expression.

While I respect it, I got the right to kid it. I used a mixed technique (die-cuts in the usual way but also 2D puppet which gives movements a gummy elasticity) so the result is very near to Terry Gilliam’s (of Monthy Python) animations, it has the same “Max Ernst meets Tex Avery” taste.

Probably frenzy animation rhythm override music in itself, I mean it tends to steal the lead role; as the music is mechanical and obsessive, so it goes on the back. Not the steel snare, of course, it sticks in your cranium as a nail. You can’t forget it.

I think it’s exactly what I wanted: a video not confortable, but funny all the same. Here is it: enjoy!