Clark - Riff Through The Fog

What this video is

Released in March 2014 on Warp Records as the B-side to the 'Superscope' 12", 'Riff Through The Fog' arrives at a moment when electronic artists were re-engaging with analogue hardware aesthetics in deliberate counterpoint to the dominance of high-resolution digital video production. The oscilloscope video format directly mirrors the track's own synthesis philosophy — sound rendered as pure waveform, stripped of…

Why it matters

A landmark example of oscilloscope music video art in the IDM/electronic genre, this video represents a technically and philosophically pure approach: the visual output is generated entirely by the audio signal itself, collapsing the distinction between sound and image. It sits within a lineage of…

The director

Vincent Adoxo is a visual artist and programmer who, working alongside Steven Bliss, created a series of oscilloscope-based music videos for Clark on Warp Records in 2014. Adoxo is noted for programming oscilloscopes to generate animations driven entirely by…