VHS

Growing up, I owned many VHS tapes and watched countless Disney movies, listening to the THX theme before each one. In VHS, I simulate this magical, childhood experience, beginning with a mock THX theme right before my movie theme begins. As the VHS tape continues to play, it fast forwards, rewinds, pauses, and more while the plot of the movie advances. Later in the piece, I use many extended techniques to simulate the blue lines that often distort VHS tapes’ images, the strange sounds tapes make when fast forwarding or rewinding, and the “fuzzy” quality tapes often exhibit. Throughout the piece, my VHS tape becomes more and more distorted, and, eventually, it unravels and falls apart. Through VHS, I hope to bring the fantastical adventures I remember as a child from the screen to the stage.