Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Savages music video melts rock into ambient noise by recording it again and again


Savages' songs are usually dark, biting, post-rock jams, but their latest music video destroys almost all of that. The band has taken one of its tracks, "I Am Here," and warped it into an unrecognizable shrill of sounds by re-recording it from an existing recording, and then repeating that process nine more times over. The result sounds like an electronic symphony of crying cicadas that groans and lurches as the song moves on. Part of the warped recording is used to preface the band's performance in their new video, while other elements of it have been blended into the background of the song's regularly stark track.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4691472/savages-music-video-rerecorded-ten-times-warps-rock-into-noise

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