{"id":459,"date":"2016-03-01T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=459"},"modified":"2016-03-01T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:45:39","slug":"the-dream-of-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2016\/03\/the-dream-of-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of the 80&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/images\/play.gif\" width = 12 height = 12 alt=\"[play]\"\/> The Dream of the 80&#8217;s<\/a> (2016)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dream of the 80s\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lNVNZIN3cLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a Vaporwave study.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently learned about this genre, which was invented by teenagers doing deconstructive remixes of 80&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s commercial culture ephemera. They take audio and video samples of brick and mortar consumer culture and cultural nostalgia to create criticism of pre-online capitalism, as far as I understand it.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled onto this genre shortly after finishing my Christmas album and realised that that it was very close to what I was already doing. I also had the much more disconcerting twin realisation that early 90&#8217;s muzak was a formative musical influence, due to how much I was subject to it during an impressionable age.<\/p>\n<p>For this study, I took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IWTwLAgbJIw\">the advert for the Cupertino Inn<\/a> and cut out all of the (extremely awkward) narration and was left only with the very muzak-y background. Because my editing was abrupt cuts, which did not adjust for beat matching, I decided to use granular-style techniques for cutting the audio, but with extremely oversized &#8216;grains&#8217;. I put this over a looped, half speed playback of the cut audio.<\/p>\n<p>For the video, I used ffmpeg to spit out 12 frames a second as jpegs. I then used a python script to glitch every frame and reassembled the video. I editted them together in openshot, which, due to my inexperience, played the video at 12.5 fps, so I looped the closing image.<\/p>\n<p>I picked this advert because I have a relationship with this hotel and because I thought it was extremely odd that they made an advert in 2010 that so completely and unintentionally embraced 80&#8217;s nostalgia and human misery. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupertinoinn.com\/\">The Cupertino Inn<\/a> is under new management in the last two years and has updated it&#8217;s vibe and furnishings. It is now a nice hotel. You should stay there, not only because I have a financial interest in you doing so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7405\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7405','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=459-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:46 &#8212; 3.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dream of the 80&#8217;s (2016) This is a Vaporwave study. I&#8217;ve recently learned about this genre, which was invented by teenagers doing deconstructive remixes of 80&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s commercial culture ephemera. They take audio and video samples of brick and mortar consumer culture and cultural nostalgia to create criticism of pre-online capitalism, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7406\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7406','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=459-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheDreamOfThe80s.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:46 &#8212; 3.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,8,105,106],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-103","category-supercollider","category-vaporwave","category-video","tag-ffmpeg","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}