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I have been aware of Jonathan (AKA Pandos) and his work since at least the 2006 Grandma Party. He walked up to us at our blanket and handed us some CDs with very pretty packaging and fun electronic music on them. For whatever reason, I lost those CDs in a box of stuff I didn’t open until I moved in October, when I found them and was pleased by the “B4RSK1LZ” and reminded of the kind guy who handed them to me. Two of the discs were actually blank according to my computer, but one was called “Orange” and came in orange packaging with hand-draw artwork, a linen front and some painted bits of what I think is upholstery samples.
I recently had the pleasure of watching a live Pandos performance at Austin’s Coffee. There is no way I can describe his work to you and have it make sense – even the video clip above does not do him justice.
Pandos is an exercise in found audio and video, or it at least seems that way. Jonathan appears to have compiled several hours of video of very interesting things in order to make a composite work. He takes three old television sets and three VCRs with about 20 VHS tapes and proceeds to play them in overlapping patterns that create an impossible to recreate live performance of sight and sound. Even the on-screen display for the VCRs, like “PLAY” and “STOP” and up contributing to the final composition.
The digital video and audio by Pandos clearly stems from the same place. Electronic, but still melodic, again using found clips (like a Mr. Spell, or the Spice Girls “Wannabe” for example). Jonathan referred to himself as a VJ, but he certainly has an ear for composition, as “Are you a dreamer?” demonstrates.
On a few of the posts here at Orlando Video, you will notice a “Download” link, namely from videos found on Revver or Blip – this comes from Jonathan’s suggestion that I make videos available for download as well as streaming. If you want your video featured here, as a link, a streaming video or a download, just email me – liberatr [at] gmail DOT com.
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