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Meet the Man Who Turns VHS Static Into Hypnotizing Art

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New York City in the 1980s was a creative, crime-ridden cesspool. This was particularly true in Times Square, which was exactly like the Times Square of today just with less Disney characters and more adult theaters. According to local regulations at the time, these XXX establishments were required to show the non-sexy stuff too: everything from grindhouse movies to B-flicks to anything else that didn’t have an excess of flesh. Years later, when video artist and electronic musician Jason Harvey (@vocoded) moved to the city, he decided to put these alternate inventories to good use by hitting up existing porno spots to purchase their non-dirty video collection.

“We ended up with a huge treasure trove of just old VHS tapes of poor quality stuff,” says Jason, who began sifting through each tape, chopping up the more obscure sections, running the clips through visual synthesizers, then adding music in the background (either his own composition, or whatever vintage track he had laying around the house). However Jason, whose current day job consists of developing sound design and video projection for corporate events, wasn’t interested in the “good” parts of the movies he was watching. He was more fascinated by the offbeat moments. “I’d take the weird part at the end or the little commercials in between and make something out of it,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll cut the music up and if the visuals change or something happens in it, I try to make the music change as well. It’s challenging.”

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