WL//WH Premiere: VIOLET NOX’s Unpredictable Rainbow Ride through Black Snow On Christmas’ Remix of “Spectre”

WL//WH Premiere VIOLET NOX

Violet Nox, the Experimental Electronic trio from Boston, Massachusetts, made up of Dez DeCarlo (Synthesis, effect pedals), Andrew Abrahamson (Synthesis, samples, clocked machines), and Noell Dorsey (vocals and lyrics), returns with a anmated music video, created by Glitch Media Artist Allison Tanenhaus, for the Black Snow on Christmas remix of “Spectre”, the lead song on last October’s six-track album “Silvae”, via Somewherecold Records (US) and Aumega Project (Germany).

Chris Wirrwitz, the man behind Black Snow on Christmas, has made music since the early ‘90s, moving from noisy experimental rock into analog and modular synthesizers over the past decade. He lives on a car-free Baltic island, working as a writer, coach, and consultant, and runs the magazine BSOC Monthly.

Black Snow on Christmas takes the arcane hypnotic in-between aspect of the original “Spectre” and shakes it up a bit with disruptive incongruities, driving a deep moody buzzing bass line to meander alongside the hypnotic bounce of muted, thudding kicks and intervals of tinny and contained rattling percussion patterns, Atop prismatic glassy electric waves warble under jittery sparkling arpeggios to create a heavy, wobbly pull below unsynced layers of Noell’s normally smooth soaring vocalizations, now viscerally pleading ‘wake up right now, you must be strong’, into a clearing of bright shivering crystalline tones.

The music video features a mix of earthly and uncanny visuals, taking the viewer on a swirling tour of an imaginary sci-fi landscape. Part welcoming, part sinister, part natural, part fantastical, elements are always in motion, bringing the audience on an unpredictable ride that flows hypnotically with the otherworldly, pulsating music. Timeless darkness, light, prisms, constellations, and the vastness of space collide with throwback anime and synthwave aesthetics. Spinning circles (echoing the song’s lyrics) recur throughout. For a final touch, the purple flowers—which dance and sway in an Alice in Wonderland ‘All in the Golden Afternoon’ fashion—are a nod to the Violet in the band’s name, rooting the impossible ecosystem in a signature familiarity.says Allison Tanenhaus, Glitch Media Artist

Glitch Media Artist Allison Tanenhaus constructs an animated candy colored rainbow realm where geometric configurations join with reflective textures and Jungian imagery to stir the mind’s eye with cosmic fascinations. Imagine walking and gliding through a symbolic, pastel-painted, futuristic arena with the ability to modify height and thus perception. Along the way, kaleidoscopic crystal pyramids jut out of the ground under shifting architectures to bring forth ideas of change and growth, seamlessly in sync with the soundtrack.

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