Living Hour - Most from the new album, Softer Faces out now on Kanine Records Order Softer Faces :
Living Hour presents a “texture video” to accompany the ambient track “Most,” from the band’s sophomore album Softer Faces, released March 1 on Kanine Records. Sam Sarty, lead singer of Living Hour, created the video texture piece using found footage from 38 VHS karaoke tapes, acquired on Kijiji, Canada’s favourite online classifieds. Sarty sifted through hours of stock karaoke scenes and lyrics on her VCR/TV unit to find footage, focusing on brief transitional moments of the karaoke tracks: frames before the songs would start, after they ended, blips on the screen before the initial lyric came on, expressionless hands, water that moves slowly transitioning from verse to chorus, or the thick amorphous line of static that appears when rewinding/fast forwarding the tape all presenting gestural, textural components.
After selecting these images, Sarty used overlapping video mediums by filming the VCR/TV screen with an 8mm camera on black and white film. From there the film was developed and digitized, and Sarty manipulated the images further, halving speeds and lengthening and stretching them further finding molecular, granular space in the frames. What initially seemed to be a single frame in the background of a karaoke display is rediscovered as a small ecosystem of static and texture for seeing.
The texture that rises from the manipulated images in the video echoes the rolling glow and density of “Most.” Both the song and its accompanying video are meditative yet expansive forces that are slow and glowing but also create a feeling of infinite possibility, looking further inward and focusing closer on something until its microcosms are deconstructed, and the bits that weren’t initially perceptible become of the focus of our attention to create a feeling of sedative warmth.
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