Scratch Video a mutant hybrid of scratch DJ music and guerrilla TV

scratchvideo/design

The evolution of scratch video resulted in a medium which reappropriates consumer technology for new uses, borrows a structure from electronic music and hip hop and a visual language from video, has a DIY ethic and uses sampled content. The design of scratch video, what it actually looks and sounds like, is up to each individual VJ or scratch video editor.

The medium is defined by a continuity of image and sound, and has a specific structure and visual language. Scratch video editors put together albums, and VJs mix images in realtime. The sources for images can be sampled (from TV, movies or the web) or created (using a video camera of any image software). The tools actually needed to produce scratch video include TVs, VCRs, video cameras, PCs, video mixers and video projectors.

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