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January 16, 2014 9:04 AM

Mario Wienrroither cuts up music videos to create surreal, musicless clips: Firestarter - Smells Like Teen Spirit - I Want To Break Free (Music videos without music previously, more previously)
posted by The Whelk (12 comments total)

I think he's got a short drive to surreal on that trio. I'm having a hard time thinking of any memorable videos that had non-performance action that wasn't some kind of weird out of context. The reengineering of the audio tracks is pretty sweet though :)
posted by Ogre Lawless at 9:20 AM on January 16, 2014

I like how the Firestarter video looks like a grimdark Krusty The Clown having a tantrum in a sewer.
posted by The Whelk at 9:22 AM on January 16, 2014 [5 favorites]

Yeah, when I saw "musicless" clips, I was thinking it was just the videos without sound, so of course if you chop that up it will look silly. But the new audio adds so much nuance to the video, especially the drips and echoes in that Prodigy clip. Sweet find.
posted by antonymous at 9:28 AM on January 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

Well done! The addition of mundane noises adds an eerie quality to these videos that I really like. I'm not sure what that says about me, though.
posted by blurker at 9:33 AM on January 16, 2014

I have decided that the Firestarter one is a Bruce Nauman home movie
posted by fallingbadgers at 9:34 AM on January 16, 2014

I'm a fan of this sort of thing.
posted by orme at 9:47 AM on January 16, 2014 [4 favorites]

They're like artsier "shreds" videos, without the infantile, homophobic audio. Win!
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:02 AM on January 16, 2014

Reminds me of my favorite video of Metallica in concert.
posted by straight at 11:28 AM on January 16, 2014

(Oh wow, Andy Rehfeldt has done a bunch of entertaining concert and performance video remixes.)
posted by straight at 11:39 AM on January 16, 2014

Smells like meme spirit.

Stupid? Check.
Contagious? Check.

Yup.
posted by Ratio at 11:39 AM on January 16, 2014

This is correct viewing for having taken a bunch of cough medicine.
posted by cmoj at 12:23 PM on January 16, 2014

Daft Punk - Get Lucky
posted by panaceanot at 2:00 PM on January 16, 2014