Addictive TV
Великобритания
London audio-video producers Peter Tull and Graham Daniels can remix a song, a music video, or a blockbuster trailer. For them, there's no difference. The duo works with video imagery, just as sound sampling masters do, transforming clips from videos, films, animations, and documentaries into new art video objects. Addictive TV has taken the art of sampling to unimaginable heights, with their uniqueness lying in the fact that the Londoners work with video imagery in conjunction with sound, not separately from it. Gunfire and the crunching of a carrot, cut from the film 'Shoot Them', become an intricate breakbeat track-trailer. The rustling of snake skin, Samuel Jackson's brave slogans, and gunshots from 'Snakes on a Plane' turn into an interesting drum and bass sketch that you could play right now and project in a club simultaneously. Archive footage of performances by Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and the notorious TV show featuring the Sex Pistols is weaved together by the artists into a clever mash-up (a track obtained by recombining separate parts of several, typically well-known and recognizable, tracks).
Addictive TV are both pioneers and veterans of the genre. When Tull and Graham started their experiments and performances in 1992, they had to operate vinyl turntables and tape video recorders. Now, Tull and Daniels consult equipment manufacturers for video DJs, run the world's first DVD label, and host the audio-visual arts festival Optronica. Addictive TV perform in clubs, including huge venues like AgeHa in Tokyo. And not just there; the duo's virtuosic mastery has been in demand at both music and film festivals, their clips are shown on British television, and the film company New Line Cinema commissioned the Englishmen for the first official film remix.
Addictive TV has been twice recognized by the English DJ Magazine as the best VJs in the world, while the American music magazine Paste called the Londoners' sets 'the pinnacle of audio-visual pop culture.'