Watch with headphones, Eyes fixed on screen
Watch in dark, with no light other than computer screen
Take medication as needed
alternate:
Watch in Wang Ba (Chinese Net Bar), chain smoke while watching, see who comments about what you are looking at.
if:
You are prone to seizures, panic attacks, naseu, sensitive to lights or epileptic, it is still highly reccomended that you watch this.
Ideal: download videos and play them on random view
Likely: Use remote for youtube links, you should play them
in any given order, start with a lucky number, your favorite tv channel,
Watch in order, watch in intentionally the wrong order, play one at random until you get bored, if you don't like what you are seeing, change the channel
Fast Food Gerneration:
Watch only 10 seconds of each
New Era Surrealist:
specifically watch only a set time of each part, then cycle through the channels repeatedly doing the same thing
RECCOMENDED
Example: watch channel 1 through 7 only playing from 2O seconds until 40 seconds start back at one and watch only from 0 to 20 seconds repeat, repeat, repeat with differenct times
Sensory Deprivation Torture Tactics
Sensory Deprivation Experiments in Art Culture
-Timothy Leary, 60's psycedlic video, and their many precursors
Rave/Breakcore/Free Party Scene/80'S industrial
-The kind of things that might go flash flash on a screen whil you dance dance
and candyflip
-the kind of things 80's industrial bands used to play on screens, before everybody got guitars and started copying Ministry,
to keep people from noticing there was just one guy pushing buttons, while the other danced around and sang
The 24 Hour News Cycle
-CNN, US Presidential Election coverage, useless facts and diagrams popping open in other screens and their supporting sponsors' commercials
Extreme D.I.Y.
-The extent to which people can create almost every element of an artistic project in their home
Sikhara China Experience
-Too poor to ever afford instruments, learning to use free online software, working in Wang Ba with fake id, Wang ba culture
Entire project concevied and created at MECCA, XI'AN
filmed on MECCA Sound Stage 2
the following components completed
alone in Mecca
by Scott Nydegger
Stage Design
Photography
Videography
Visual Design
Audio Recording and Mixing
Audio Mastering
with these brief exceptions
Final Video Mixes at (secret location) Wang Ba
1 audio track taken from live Beijing concert, courtesy of Zhu Wen Bo
1 video clip taken from Beijing live concert, courtesy of Beijing Live Music
1 photo taken by David Sidoux
the materials:
donated
camera loaned by George Frangoulis
zoom microphone donated by URCK
freeware:
1 free audio mixer
1 free wave editor
1 free video mixer
restricted from the features of saving a project
so all editing must be completed in one session
1 free video file convertor
the costs:
approx 25 hours of Wang Ba - 75rmb
one white sheet - 10 rmb
4 aa batteries - 10 rmb
BROADCAST ONE-"BEHIND THE GREAT FIREWALL"
How to operate TPC TV:
Major Project influences:
Made In China
How to participate:
Download any combination of videos or parts
Download any free video mixer
Make your own remix
Upload to Youku or You tube
Title: "TPC Cable TV" + give it a channel number
email the link: obeamanxian at 163 dot com
serious inquiry only:
email to
-request audio or video parts obeamanxian at 163 dot com
-inquire as to available remix parts
-inquire where to find good freeware to use
Send a comment, complaint, or random piece of applicable text:
obeamanxian at 163 dot com
-Any results will be used in a future broadcast