Ian McColm - July 2014
ATTN: Please set this video to 1080p for full fidelity. This was made during a very productive period for me in summer '14 where I was working almost every day. My primary mixer, the Panasonic WJ-MX10, has an onboard audio mixer that can manipulate four independent RCA L/R sources; this and the J. Russell / TT Lynch tape (as well as another tape featuring JK, aka Thieves of Shiloh,) are from a project I was working on where I was inviting different musicians to come to the house and improvise on top of the same sets of visuals. I had planned to later play all of the tapes simultaneously through the mixer and mix the audio levels live, forcing the same kind of strange, absent collaboration that the musicians were having with the visuals as they worked. Unfortunately, after performing the lumakey mod on the MX10, the audio mixer was fried (bridged connection, I reckon,) and I never managed to complete the project. The visuals on this tape - which is a scratch tape, not the original I dubbed Ian to - are all over the place, truly wild at times. I was pushing to see how many layers of information I could successfully get the tape to handle simultaneously and still perceive them independently, and in the course of making this I definitely found out (it's about five, but you kind of need to mash your face against the screen to tell.) It is often not a lot of fun to watch, but Ian's guitar is so truly incredible throughout that it would be a crime not to put this somewhere. Enjoy. (Videos featured in this: "Ultimate Video Aquarium," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," "Combat Shock," "IT (ABC Miniseries,)" others I can't recall.)
ATTN: Please set this video to 1080p for full fidelity. This was made during a very productive period for me in summer '14 where I was working almost every day. My primary mixer, the Panasonic WJ-MX10, has an onboard audio mixer that can manipulate four independent RCA L/R sources; this and the J. Russell / TT Lynch tape (as well as another tape featuring JK, aka Thieves of Shiloh,) are from a project I was working on where I was inviting different musicians to come to the house and improvise on top of the same sets of visuals. I had planned to later play all of the tapes simultaneously through the mixer and mix the audio levels live, forcing the same kind of strange, absent collaboration that the musicians were having with the visuals as they worked. Unfortunately, after performing the lumakey mod on the MX10, the audio mixer was fried (bridged connection, I reckon,) and I never managed to complete the project. The visuals on this tape - which is a scratch tape, not the original I dubbed Ian to - are all over the place, truly wild at times. I was pushing to see how many layers of information I could successfully get the tape to handle simultaneously and still perceive them independently, and in the course of making this I definitely found out (it's about five, but you kind of need to mash your face against the screen to tell.) It is often not a lot of fun to watch, but Ian's guitar is so truly incredible throughout that it would be a crime not to put this somewhere. Enjoy. (Videos featured in this: "Ultimate Video Aquarium," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," "Combat Shock," "IT (ABC Miniseries,)" others I can't recall.)