' in 2018 for the Transformer Festival," Gideon reflects."Michael and I had a couple of days there, and we were hanging out, and there was an hour-long sci-fi feminist rock opera that demanded a lot from the audience. And we were lamenting people's attention spans and that people don't really listen to albums anymore and people hear music on Instagram."
The tracks are danceable pop beats that jump from themes of surveillance capitalism to social media addiction."Scrolling" is meant to"brainwash" the listener, creating the same sense of mindless repetition provided by scrolling sites like Instagram."I literally just say the words, 'This is a photo, this is a photo, this is a video, this is an ad,'" O'Neill says.
As for the videos, the duo says the creation process was very time-consuming. Gideon has a lot of experience in stop-motion animation, so the videos loop photos of the two doing things such as scrolling on a phone or swinging their hips in a funky, hypnotic dance."I constructed a-esque plastic world [that] we were in, just slowly putting that together over time," Gideon explains.
There's also a second half to the thirty-minute performance — but Gideon and O'Neill won't reveal anything more than its meditative nature."After the isolation and shutdown of the pandemic and the live performance being put on hold, it's really nice to share space with people and have an experience and a moment to slow down and be human together," Gideon says."So I hope that's what happens when people come to the show.
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