Spacedog Televisor
willow's song (hammer sandwich mix)
This video features the theremin AV controller, a device I created in Max/MSP to control the speed and volume of audio and video samples, live.
The music here is the Willow's Song (Paul Giovanni), as featured in the British classic horror film The Wicker Man (1973). Here, it's being mixed with a sample from Hammer classic The Devil Rides Out (1968), plus a 1950s parakeet training record. I'm controlling the hypnotic voice of actor Charles Gray. Mike, in the green teeshirt, is cueing up the various samples as the song progresses.
This version of the Willow's Song was first performed at Atters' Other World, the Brighton Festival Fringe, June 2008, then our sell-out show at the Sanctuary. Here, you're watching an excerpt from a live playthough of our set in the Blank Gallery, Brighton.