Aaron Ross: Opus Alchymicum video collection 1991-1999

 

Cruise the Circuit   Cruise the Circuit
This is a 3D animation which directly translates music into visual art. It is abstract, synaesthetic visual music rendered in virtual space. I have even created a 3D stereoscopic version, so the visual instruments can be appreciated in their full depth.
5 minutes, color, stereo.

 

Improvisation No. 1
The music and video of this composition were created simultaneously, using unique analog synthesizers at the Experimental Television Center in upstate New York.
1 minute, color, stereo.
  Improvisation No. 1

 

Too Far Out   Too Far Out
"I mean, I don't want to go too far out of me being somebody else, because otherwise that sets up that I'm, like, pretending to be... OK, let's go."
5 minutes, color, stereo.

 

Trance Mission
Visual music which echoes religious practices designed to evoke awe, terror, and euphoria. An invitation to lose oneself in the singularity of the infinite. This one is a mind-bender!
3 minutes, color, stereo.
  Trance Mission

 

Technotanz   Technotanz
"Whoa, dude, you should do RAVES!"
3 minutes, b&w/color, stereo.

 

Opus Alchymicum:
The Special Edition

Four precepts of classical alchemy are reinterpreted into a psycho-cybernetic visual/aural language. Computer animation is used to represent internal spaces holding ancient and ineffable truths.
6 minutes, color, stereo.
  Opus Alchymicum: The Special Edition

 

Psychotic Reaction   Psychotic Reaction
Rock video using the Pulfrich effect to achieve 3-D stereoscopy without special equipment. Place an ND9 filter or sunglass over your right eye to see 3-D.
5 minutes, color, stereo.

 

Lullabye
(for postmodern children)

Simultaneously criticizes and celebrates media hypnosis via hell-driven industrial music and flickering scratch video of science fiction TV.
5 minutes, color, stereo.
  Lullabye

 

PSEKELIS   PSEKELIS
Prerecorded music is transmuted into abstract imagery in real time. Music composed and performed by Olivier Delarue.
5 minutes, color, stereo.

 

Media Blitz
Recombinant mutation of the 1988 presidential election debate between Bush and Dukakis, deconstructing the relationship between gesture and power.
3 minutes, color, stereo.
  Media Blitz

 

Meltdown   Meltdown (Chaos in Motion)
Documentation of Recycled Time, an interdisciplinary performance using 3-D audio and live multi-camera video feedback. Created in collaboration with Christian Greuel.
6 minutes, color, stereo.

 
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