Happy holidays, friends! Here it is, just in time for Christmas, the final instalment of our 5-part music video series for the 5 movements of the Bells of Yule suite of computer music, composed way back in 1994 as 4-channel .MODs on an Atari ST! (Remastered in 2014.) To provide period visuals, we’ve dug deep into the annals of seasonal computer artwork from the public domain and the computer art underground! Suiting the extraordinary dark tone of this fifth and final movement (suitable for the darkest time of the year – at least, here in the northern hemisphere), we saved all of the grimmest “bad Santa” pieces (boozing, smoking, six-shooting, tripping balls) popular in underground circles… but it proved inadequate even scrolling at modem speeds to fill the song’s runtime, so we also drew on a wealth of hitherto-untapped RIPscrip vector graphics, nearly all by the astounding Outworld Arts, as well as a tremendous selection of whimsical teletext advent calendar works by Illarterate (who you saw in MIST1015) as well as a handful by Raquel Meyers (ditto) and Simon Ferre, among others.
This suite of video experiments has been our main project since MIST1015 was released, diverting most of our discretionary time and energies from such competing activities as blogging the compelling contents of MIST1015 and telling you just why it was all so fascinating, but rest assured we’ll be getting back on that horse at our earliest opportunity… after a brief respite and resolution of a couple of remaining loose ends for 2015. Until then – happy holidays and Merry Mist'mas!
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