Visuals by Jordan MacRae, music by Jordan MacRae and Ross Woodhead, recorded in Glasgow in 2021.

These images were crafted by distorting video signals using a technique called video bending, the source footage for this film come from an experiment in 2019 placing an iPhone underwater on Scotland’s west coast for one hour. The results have been edited into a series of loops which have then been processed by real time interaction with analogue video gear that “bends” the video signal to distort and pull apart the source material to generate completely new images, leaving hints or the original footage available to the eye. This process has taken years to arrive at a final product, after conducting many tests to establish the most successful ways to generate the colours and textures I have seen in my head for a long time. The workflow for a project like this is complicated, please see diagram below for the signal chain I set up to achieve this look. It was created with the intention of being installed in a gallery space, the film on a loop with the projector spraying the images onto a piece of opaque material hung from the gallery ceiling. The material would be gently moved by a fan underneath the projector and behind the sheet of gauze. There are four speakers in the room, each in a corner, providing a quadraphonic experience to those in the room as the ambient music bounces around the four speakers.