It’s not about the machine itself but the process of exploration. We are excited about people creating their own content out of this device. We encourage others to deconstruct our ideas and this piece in similar ways. It’s dirty, chaotic, and constantly on the brink of catastrophic failure. Our real performances are disassembled, mangled, and thrown back together in a renegade way. The piece itself is a musical instrument. When creating music, we are sticking/unsticking ourselves to endless time snakes-the idea that the smallest/tiniest of moments contains everything in the universe-Progress/becoming UNSTUCK. The piece is an expression of the infinite/fractal nature of every moment in time. It’s inspired by Mercury being in retrograde right now (until April 4, 2012). Depending on the number of loops you trigger and the way you time them, an infinite number of visual/audio combinations are possible. There are 109 loops that you can start and stop at will. We created a deconstructive musical piece called RETROGRADE, conceptualized and executed by Death Grips and coded by Jacob Ciocci ( Extreme Animals). Check out the full experience on the Death Grips site. Retrograde is a collection of clips that can be played simultaneously or in sequence any way you like, allowing you to play an integral part of the listening and viewing experience. But first, we’re bringing you the premiere of their new video, which is actually 109 videos. We recently spoke with Death Grips about the band’s process for creating audio and video. While every new song is an experiment of sorts, the finished products are very deliberate pieces, forged from the shared musical ideologies of the band members. No one has seen or heard anything like Death Grips before because it is a project that begins from scratch, ignoring the established palates of both hip-hop heads and fans of noise music alike, and venturing into this newly discovered avant-garde bridge between the two. The collection of apocalyptic vignettes culminated in their lauded 2011 mixtape Exmilitary. The visual elements are lo-fi as hell, finding the band in empty lots, office parks, and hanging off the sides of buildings, and even making the seatbelted passenger seat of a car look like a menacing stage for an MC. In every instance, front man Stefan Burnett’s screaming intensity paces frantically over chaotic, overdriven, destructive beats by Zach Hill and Andy Morin. Since then, Death Grips has delivered a barrage of songs and videos that convey the same vibe in various permutations.
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