We’ve all seen unofficial music videos — clips that folks who dig a band make because … they dig a band. Some work out great like “My Body Is A Cage” or HEALTH’s “Heaven,” and others are better left to the dustbin. Well, Aaron Koblin, a visual artist/Interpol fan, put together a tech-y video for “Rest My Chemistry” with the help of his production company, Blip Boutique. He wanted to adapt the technology he uses for his art to make a kind of art piece for the song. As the production company noted:
We wanted to do something for this song that was not specifically intended for broadcast, but that was more of an art piece that would live and grow primarily online. We wanted to use a new technology using data mapping to create an abstract video.
The result looks like biological — or, right, chemical — fireworks. Or Tron. Interpol was contacted about the project, liked it, and endorsed it. Does that make it official? We’re not sure, but it’s definitely a striking accompaniment to those starry, Pixie-ish guitar licks and Paul’s baritone.
In case you’re curious how it was made, here’s some more of that Q&A with Boom Blip about working on the project. This is their idea of the song’s story:
The story we wanted to tell came from the idea of body chemistry, as the song addresses sort of what one does to ones body and stepping away from that for a spell. So since we knew we wanted to do something with mapping data, we started thinking about body systems, and how we could expound on the idea of systems from the smallest to the largest scales. Therefore we decided to have the imagery reflect systems of particles within cells to cellular growth and multiplication to overall body systems, to city grids, to global mapping to solar systems, and back down again.
It’s also just pretty.
Our Love To Admire is out via Capitol.
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Alright, it is pretty. I’ll admit to that. But no Interpol video is complete without creepy puppets. ‘Evil’ demonstrated that to all of us.
Very cool!
Very cool!
it’s like a really complicated version of those visuals from windows media player
Brilliant job, and beautiful video. Seeing as it’s unlikely the band plan to do anything else to promote OLTA, it’s good to see that someone else is breathing life back into it – particularly a fan.
5 stars, my little ducky.
windows screen saver?
But the best song on the album is still “Who Do You Think”…
Does anyone else feel like Interpol might call it quits soon? I hope they don’t, but according to that Spin article, they don’t even get along.
Cheers stereogum for the heads up about this!
Liked the vid so much I did my own review on my blog: http://megwilhoite.blogspot.com/2008/05/unofficial-rest-my-chemistry-video.html
michaelways: The band have been misquoted about this by both Billboard and SPIN, and have reassured people in other articles that their comments about not getting along – as with the joke about ‘breaking up four times’ – have been taken way too seriously. They’ve never gotten along, apparently!
It’s also certain fans getting bored and wanting news who start these rumours to fill up time. There’s no basis to it.
Everything I’ve read talks about how much they love writing together, and that they probably want to limit touring. So no worries, me hearty :)
Thanks for clearing that up Katie :)