b'Out of the BoxZBIGVISION video technology, and I thought this wasmake interesting films but can you makemusic video in America. It was Trevor a great time for those. I was sure thata music video? I said, Not yet. ThenHorn, I think, the composer of the Art of before long, some kind of new form ofsorry. (laughs). To get the first one wasNoise, and he said, I really dont care what image, new form of film, new form ofvery difficult. The first person who helpedyou do with it. There was no band, it was music would emerge, actually, because Iwas obviously Alan Kleinberg. It was ajust fantastic music. I must tell you, openly, found it very interestingly that it developedproducer who was introduced to me byit was the best piece of music I had worked music, but also develop the image. I sawLorne Michaels and actually the first jobwith because it was electronic music that that in productions like the earliest videoswhich I got in the US, for a new show calledwas very good & very precise. by Godley & Creme, Herbie HancocksThe New Show, nor very successful.I had a completely free hand, and so I Rockit orI dont remember when theyAfter four or five episodes, NBC pulledinvented some kind of group of characters, did exactly these videos but thats howthis show. I lost my job, so I talked withsome little girl, and made the video. It Im associating those videos this with thisAlan Kleinberg. He said, I will ask differentwas very low budget. I made the video Austrian HD pioneer Zbigniew Rybczyski pushed thetime. I. Anyhow, I just wanted to makerecord companies, and with the samewith some kind of effects which, already music videos, but to my surprise, very bigresponse, no. Finally, Chris Blackwell,because I photographed that 16-mm tape boundaries of the music video form using image manipulation,surprise, I got an Oscar for my short filmowner of Island Records, gave us a call andfilm and later I will re-photograph some Tango, and so many short films and sosaid, We have the Art of Noise. They wereoptical prints, so I made some kind of jerky optical technology, and a hunger for new art forms. many awards worldwide for my films, butvery British. They were not interested inmovement synchronized with the music to record companies said yeah, okay, youthe American market. We dont care aboutsome musical event. How did you work the camera to get that effect?How did you get started in musicI shot on 16mm film, and later, with video? an optical printer, I removed different In early spring 1984, I landed inframes and re-photographed this material New York. Somehow I decided thatLeft:according to some precise drawings of the this country might be the placetheRybczyskimusic. There were some gaps actually, United States. At this time, I was indirectingsome gaps of music, so I could calculate Austria, and I just came to America,Chuckevery frame and made some events. and I was really interested, and IMangione inBut the budget was very low - I couldnt started to observe what is Americanhis video finish the video. I had to somehow edit the television.I did a music video I tried to talk material which I had and it was very rough and this music video was very popular, they just started MTV, it was at thewith the so this video made a relatively big splash beginning, and I thought this was something really fantastic, amazing,musicians, somehow. Actually, from this video, many because for the first time, I think ever,artists, many musicians who were looking there was a completely new situationlisten, and for something unique approached me with, Below: On setokay man, do something for me. I had for making short films. It was a tightshow them shooting Mickplenty of work. I think I met Trevor Horn budget, very quick time for production, and very interesting audiencea verythat we had Jaggers Letsin London who said they were completely willing participant. I always imaginedWork video wrong because they made their own the musicians they are very difficultcompletely version in England and later admitted it artists, and the young audiencesnew tools to was a mistake. were interesting audiences, so the system, with its new technologies intry andthis time was beginning to be very, very interesting. And there wereexperimentcompletely new devices in broadcastwithArt of Noise "Close to the Edit"58MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM59'