Word: looping
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...Cyklops. Add to that the fact that a good part of the audience had turned out to see the Beastie Boy's DJ on the basis of association alone. Maybe 60 percent of the audience comprised wannabe B-boys hoping for a solid dose of the "Flute Loop...
...Noyze, Rahzel, the human beat box of Philadelphia's legendary Roots crew. Fresh off the release of his millennial album, Make the Music 2000, Rahzel's performance made modern technology, and DJs like Mike, look purely superfluous. Who needs turntables, after all, when you've got someone who can loop James Brown and scratch KRS-One's "Step Into a World" with his mouth and a microphone? And why limit yourself to music? In addition to crowd pandering chants like "Where my weed smokers at?" Rahzel's act was punctuated with electronica-mimicking interludes (many of which...
...Skytypers," a mesmerizing loop about a minute long, the camera follows five planes flying parallel against a background of varying shades of blue sky. Although the planes are speeding through the air, the scene is essentially motionless, except for the shifting background of clouds and the slowly fading smoke trailing the planes. The film is so smoothly put together that the repetition can barely be noticed and the progression seems to continue forever...
...Warmerdam also uses film loops to create a sense of rhythm. "Empty House" is a series of brief shots which provide something like a tour of a house. Even though you cannot tell where the camera is taking you from one shot to the next, each is held for exactly the same amount of time, which creates a very distinct rhythm. The combined discontinuity and precision, repeated infinitely through the loop, provides an interesting and unexpected contrast...
last week, which threw me for quite a loop...