It’s been a while since Scotto Moore’s newsletter turned up any of the abstract animated visuals I enjoy. Locked Groove by Emanuele Kabu fits the bill perfectly, an exercise in vibrant random symmetry which bears the subtitle “A hypnotic audiovisual animation inspired by pareidolia”. The video might also have been inspired by psychedelic hallucination given the way it captures the tendency of the abstract patterns generated by psychedelic delirium to continually change their size, shape and colour. This is one feature of the psychedelic experience you don’t see reproduced very often even though animation has long been the ideal medium for creating such effects. Kabu has soundtracked the metamorphoses with analogue synth noises but you could just as easily watch them with a suitably psychedelic piece of music.
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• Short films by Hideki Inaba
Excellent. This animation lacks the very quality that mostly spoils CGI/AI generated efforts for me – textureless digital sheen. This work is full of texture. I see that RoughAnimator is a hand drawn animation program so I’m sure that explains it. I also fiddled with the playback speed. Half-speed was also very effective I thought. Some of Klaus Schulze’s sequencer only experiments would make a good soundtrack.