Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Artist: Tangents
Song: Lake George
Album: New Bodies
Video: Hospital Hill and Tangents
Visual effects: Mod
Bandcamp: tangents.bandcamp.com
Twitter: twitter.com/tangentsmusic
Facebook: facebook.com/TangentsSydney
Lake George sits on the road between Sydney and Canberra, and for many years has been completely devoid of water, a vast expanse of perfectly flat grassland gently switching shades of green before hitting hills off in the distance. In 2009, Ollie Bown met Shoeb Ahmad for the first time and shared a coach from Canberra to Sydney during an Icarus tour, meeting Peter Hollo for the first time as well. The lake sat dry as Tangents formed, and during several of the band’s escapades to Canberra. In 2016 it started to fill. The track picks up Tangents’ theme of meditations on powerful local places, here a place that has looked radically different under different natural circumstances. The track stands indulgently sparse, a signature Peter Hollo plucked cello bounces on top of sulky drums, flanked by tiptoeing synth rhythms, stargazing guitar and wandering vibraphones, eventually evolving on a gradual tangent into drenched electronic manipulation, murky bowing, synth motifs and fierce clipping breakbeats.
For the video, the idea was to present the atmosphere and space of Lake George, reflected in the track. The visual effects are time delays applied as a smooth map across vertical or horizontal lines of pixels. The processing parallels the types of digital warping that happens in the second half of the track. In the music it blurs the boundary between live and manipulated, in the video realm there is nothing really comparable to this kind of musical ambiguity, so the parallel is to apply simple warping and distortions that mirror and augment the movement already there.
©2018 Temporary Residence Ltd.
Artist: Tangents
Song: Lake George
Album: New Bodies
Video: Hospital Hill and Tangents
Visual effects: Mod
Bandcamp: tangents.bandcamp.com
Twitter: twitter.com/tangentsmusic
Facebook: facebook.com/TangentsSydney
Lake George sits on the road between Sydney and Canberra, and for many years has been completely devoid of water, a vast expanse of perfectly flat grassland gently switching shades of green before hitting hills off in the distance. In 2009, Ollie Bown met Shoeb Ahmad for the first time and shared a coach from Canberra to Sydney during an Icarus tour, meeting Peter Hollo for the first time as well. The lake sat dry as Tangents formed, and during several of the band’s escapades to Canberra. In 2016 it started to fill. The track picks up Tangents’ theme of meditations on powerful local places, here a place that has looked radically different under different natural circumstances. The track stands indulgently sparse, a signature Peter Hollo plucked cello bounces on top of sulky drums, flanked by tiptoeing synth rhythms, stargazing guitar and wandering vibraphones, eventually evolving on a gradual tangent into drenched electronic manipulation, murky bowing, synth motifs and fierce clipping breakbeats.
For the video, the idea was to present the atmosphere and space of Lake George, reflected in the track. The visual effects are time delays applied as a smooth map across vertical or horizontal lines of pixels. The processing parallels the types of digital warping that happens in the second half of the track. In the music it blurs the boundary between live and manipulated, in the video realm there is nothing really comparable to this kind of musical ambiguity, so the parallel is to apply simple warping and distortions that mirror and augment the movement already there.
©2018 Temporary Residence Ltd.
