Squarepusher - Wendorlan (Scope Vid)

What this video is

Released 23 January 2024 as the lead single for Squarepusher's 'Dostrotime' LP (Warp Records, 1 March 2024), 'Wendorlan (Scope Vid)' arrives at a moment of renewed interest in analogue hardware aesthetics and audiovisual art within the experimental electronic music community. The video was screened at Vienna Shorts festival in May–June 2024, marking institutional recognition of the work as short-form audiovisual…

Why it matters

As a drill-and-bass and IDM audiovisual artefact, this video is a landmark example of audio-to-image synthesis: the oscilloscope display is not illustrative of the music but is literally generated by it, making the visual track a direct physical encoding of the audio signal. This places the work…

The director

Tom Jenkinson is a British electronic musician and producer born in Chelmsford, Essex, UK, who has recorded and released music under the Squarepusher alias on Warp Records since 1996. 'Vic Acid' is a documented Squarepusher alias used since at least 1997,…