Video scratching

Video scratching

Video scratching, not to be confused with the mid 80's British Video Art phenomenon of Scratch Video is a video editing technique used within the music industry. It is a variation of the audio editing technique scratching.

It is typically used in either music videos or live performances, with one or more individuals manipulating a video sample to make it follow the rhythm of whatever music is playing. [ [http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53807,00.html Video Scratching on M-M-Macs ] ]

History

Nam June Paik was an early pioneer of video art and created pieces like 1964's "TV Cello" which combined live performance with video and music. It was a theme they'd return to over the years and "Good Morning, Mr. Orwell" recreated "TV Cello" as part of a larger, global performance.

The group Emergency Broadcast Network are considered to be pioneers of the technique, popularizing it during the 1990s. The British art collective Gorilla Tapes, comprising of Gavin Hodge, Tim Morrison and John Dovey, developed a body of scratch video art work, also to much critical acclaim, during the early to mid 1980s. Their seminal 1984 work Death Valley Days reflects upon the stifling atmosphere of the Cold War years and has been exhibited at a number of prestigious venues including Tate Britain where one of the video's fours sections entitled Commander in Chief was included in the 2003 Tate exhibition A Century of Artists Film in Britain. [ [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/artistsfilm/programme3/] Link to Tate Web entry for Gorilla Tapes]

U2's Zoo TV Tour in the early 1990s, used a range of multimedia including live mixing of a range of video, both live and pre-recorded.

Currently, Coldcut make heavy use of live video mixing and have even created software, called VJamm, to help with the process. [ [http://www.vjamm.com/ VJamm site] , which includes a video of live video scratching]

ee also

*VJ (video performance artist)
*Video remix

References

External links

* [http://www.jameshyman.com/blog/archives/000089.html Scratch Video & TV Sampling] by James Hyman
* [http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-CA&brand=sympatico&vid=a3c2fc91-96eb-42e3-83d7-ffc0b7509927 Scratch Video segment]


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