[spectre] New DVD: Nicedisc

[Joel S. Bachar]

New from the Blackchair DVD Collection:
Nicedisc - Untitled
Rebuild All Your Ruins 001
Catalog No. MC-230
2004, 45 minutes
UPC: 5660599672
SRP: $15.00

Rebuild All Your Ruins is proud to present Nicedisc’s Untitled, the 
first DVD release by the New York-based laptop audiovideo duo Nicedisc 
(Jeff Pash and Nick Phillips). The product of a year’s worth of 
extensive live performances and recording, Untitled comprises three 
extended minimalist pieces that explore the essential grammar of 
digital audio and video composition. Inspired by the pioneering work 
of the 1960’s structuralist 
school of film, Untitled pairs rich fullscreen colors against a 
shifting sonic framework of carefully processed loops and echoing 
sinewaves. The result is hypnotic and meditative, a slowly unfolding 
investigation into 
sound and image that variously recalls the scientific formalism of 
Ryoji Ikeda, the metric films of Peter Kubelka, and the psychedelic 
haze of Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine. This limited edition Super Jewel 
Case 
pressing includes 4 bonus tracks recorded live on the Nicedisc 2002 
U.S. tour.

Featuring:
1.	Fade - A pairing of single-hued luminosity fades with a series 
of elegiac audio loops that investigates the way in which minute 
differences in color gradation become infused with emotional content 
through music. Originally conceived for a live performance at Tonic, 
NY, 11/23/2003. Recorded in Brooklyn, NY, 1/8/2004.
2.	Flicker + Fade - A reinterpretation of Tony Conrad’s 1966 
film “The Flicker,” which reimagines the stroboscopic effect of 
flickering film by digitally synching the frequency and volume of 
eight sinewaves to the luminosity and hue of eight channels of video 
using networked computers. Originally conceived for a live performance 
at Mills College, Oakland, CA, 11/21/2002. Recorded in Minneapolis, 
MN, 6/28/2003.
3.	Flicker - An exercise in stark juxtaposition, with a series of 
subtly shifting loops paired against randomly generated bursts of 
color. Recorded live in Brooklyn, NY, 12/18/2003.

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Joel S. Bachar
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