Lorenzo Senni - Rave Voyeur

What this video is

Released November 11, 2016 on Warp Records as part of the EP Persona — Senni's debut for the label and the first release by an Italian artist on its roster — 'Rave Voyeur' represents the culmination of over six years of Senni's self-described 'rave voyeurism': a straight-edge outsider's clinical, distanced study of 1990s hardcore trance euphoria using the Roland JP-8000 Supersaw synthesizer. The visual component…

Why it matters

A landmark document of 'pointillistic trance' — Senni's coined genre term — that removes the drop and defers euphoria indefinitely, transforming rave's most emotionally maximalist idiom into a minimalist, contemplative object. Its pairing with CGI fine-art video extends the music's conceptual…

The director

Ed Atkins (born 1982, Oxford, UK) is a British contemporary artist best known for video art, poetry, and CGI-based moving image work. He holds an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2009). His practice centers on hyperreal CGI…