Yoshi Sodeoka is a man of many hats, but when disguised by his pseudonym C505, it's clear he relishes the anonymity of the ski mask. His newest project, available from online design shop YouWorkForThem, hijacks the conventional wisdom of motion graphics in 2006, eschewing current trends toward digital realism for analog abstractions that hark back to the kaleidoscopic tones of 70's science fiction cinema. Each of the 13 shorts on Noise Driven Ambient Audio and Visuals is accompanied by minimal bursts of industrialized noise, courtesy of KNBS, who collaborated with C505 to create a soundtrack inextricably linked to its visual counterpart. Instead of a lifeless, sterilized display of masked images and simple after effects trickery, C505 cultivates an entire petri dish of organic living art using a multitude of analog sources, video feedback loops, magnetic field distortions, and other techniques. ?Mesmerandom Part 1 & 2? moves from the dreamlike somnambulism of a yet-to-be-made Boards of Canada video to the seizure-inducing synaptic firings of hyper-edited anime, while ?Absinthium? suggest a CAT scan gone horribly wrong. Never mind the famous frying eggs - this is your brain on drugs. Whether he's using ASCII to subvert the State of the Union or rendering a Lite-Brite for simple animations, C505 continues to shock and awe the design world with his unprecedented audio and video experiments. - Steve Marchese (May / June 2006)
Exclaim! Magazine: This outstanding collection of extremely far-out experimental videos makes for wickedly intense viewing. Chock full of vibrant, hyper-speed images from very alien lanes of visual imagination, the 13 short flicks are heavy on the computer-generated effects and glitchy electro-noise accompaniment without feeling overly cold or sterile, thanks to the filmic ideas of organic process and emotional connection they incorporate. The opening eight are by this collection's renowned New York-based curator, C505 (or Yoshi Sodeoka), who also made the music as KNBS with Sean Rooney, and the final five are by guest directors with similarly abrasive soundtracks. All are mind-blowing. - Kevin Hainey (May 2006)
Noise Driven Ambient Audio And Visuals is a compilation of experimental noise/ambient videos created by C505 and music by KNBS. A far cry from music videos, the pieces are more analogous to experimental / abstract film and video art. C505's aesthetic shuns the pursuit of 3D digital realism and sanitized graphic design and instead embraces the layered residue of analog distortions and glitches. Uniquely, both the sound and video are created simultaneously by C505 and KNBS yielding a woven relationship that feels symbiotic instead of driven by one or the other. C505's favored techniques include, video feedback loops, video flicker induction, CRT distortions created by magnetic fields and capturing various visual and audio static from a multitude of analog sources. Over 50 minutes of content,
this DVD also contains guest director's work such as Associates In Science, Lew Baldwin, Day-Dream, Jonathan Turner and WeWorkForThem.
Artist Information: KNBSC505
KNBS are a cross-country collaboration between New York based world renowned video artist and musician Yoshi Sodeoka aka C505 (www.c505.com) and Seattle based noted musician and programmer Sean Rooney (www.ntet.net). They have been collaborating for more than 10 years on a variety of music and art projects. Together they create dynamic music and visuals which are sometimes confrontational and noisy, and sometimes melodic and tuneful. KNBS have performed worldwide and their work has been featured on numerous CD compilations, DVDs, web sites and in exhibitions. Their work has been featured at Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco MoMA, Turbulence.org, OFFF in Spain, DOTMOV in Japan, Design Edge in Singapore, The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles and The Sonar Festival in Spain to name a few. NTSC/Regional code is ALL.
Published by YouWorkForThem Designed by C505 and WeWorkForThem. Wire Photographs by Matthew McGregor-Mento. ISBN: 0977624110
