Hardrama’s remix by @Kris Berle is a reconstruction of Techno Para Dos original from “Drama", his new studio album out now via Nadaville. The eight minute faster version of the track brings you into a techno experimental journey playing around with Roland TR 909 / 303 percussions; deconstructing the original melodies while adding nostalgic sequences and textures. This remix invites you on an introspective trip yet extroverted dance floor.
The visual takes inspiration from the idea that “Movement is the catalyst and root of all things.” It follows dancer @Corinne Spitalier, distorting her movement and aspect in relation to the music. The video is filled with glitches and melting instances of the dancer adding a new layer of movement and intention to the dancer’s presence on the video shot by @Antoine Sonnery.
The video presented an opportunity to think about movement in an essential way. How does movement relate to sound? How does movement translate to different mediums? What does the layering of movement lead up to? The video, and its glitches serves as a way to try and answer these questions. Film can never be still, it is movement itself, as is time, as is sound. The almost 9 minute video illustrates the ever moving nature of life itself.
For @Techno para dos’ release Drama, a small catalogue of dance music for robots that invokes nostalgia on waves of electronica. The album serves as exploration and experimentation of a dramatic period of the artist's life, and lastly as a way of overcoming all of this drama.
I developed a visual for the piece Drama & Bass, the artist's experimental take on Drum n’ Bass. In it he explores fast moving rhythms and intense emotions. The sound of the piece gives voice to an overload of emotions through different samples and sonic experimentation. The visual tries to reflect the turbulent mindset of an undisclosed entity, giving a voice to a feeling and an emotion, letting it express itself to overcome the grief of its life to start healing through this process.
The video serves as an exploration of emotion, not providing concrete answers, but cathartic moments that allow ourselves to grow. While everyone feels differently, the video provides a small window into a particular soul.
Marks the first collaboration between Techno Para Dos and Federico Torres. The video starts with a recording of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway. As it progresses, through its digital processing, it becomes an abstract mass leaving behind its original meaning and aesthetic. This journey alludes to the reinterpretation of things by capturing them and putting them into the virtual world. Once an object crosses that threshold it cannot be the same, a road in the physical world serves to transport. On it, you move forward both in time and in three-dimensional space. A digitised road stops advancing with that logical structure and spreads in many different ways, temporally and dimensionally.
The visual addressed questions of digitalism and realism. I used the glitch elements of the song to mark the loss of identity of the objects in the digital world and at the same time their resignification and reinterpretation in the virtual space. Is a thing still that same thing after it has been digitally processed? Does it become an instance of itself? "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"...
