Stereo, NTSC Color, 1990/2007
Benton-C Bainbridge: Props, Cameras, Oscillators, Jones Sequencer
Andrew Koontz: Korg MS-20 sound processing
10 minutes cut down from 45 minutes of U-Matic tape. At this time my collaborators and I used a lot of food for props. We wanted to subvert human sustenance, making fruits and vegetables seem alien. We'd shop for weird looking stuff in Chinatown, shoot it and then go to the donut shop when we were hungry.
This is one of those archetypical Experimental Television Center jams where you put some props on turntables, set up the cameras and patch the system to make an interesting audiovisual composition, then spend hours living with it. Tweaking knobs to elicit screams from the beast. It's always a thrill for those at the controls, but recorded playback isn't guaranteed to compel those who weren't part of the process. At the very least, the work has to be shortened... a lot! It took me 17 years of watching "Sprouts, Grapes, Artichokes" before I finally figured out how to cut around the visual polyrhythms.
