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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone create a psychedelic epic for Simian Mobile Disco

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30 July 2014
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James Cartwright
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Jack Featherstone, Hans Lo and Simian Mobile Disco have long collaborated on music videos for the band’s singles, using highly complex analogue techniques to generate visuals that complement each song. But their latest offering may well be the most complex yet. Six months in the making, Tangents features live-generated digital imagery fed through an oscilloscope. The guys filmed, it, manipulated it and then knitted it all together into a four minute epic that builds from monochromatic morse dots and dashes to a full-blown crescendo of strobed psychedelia.

Two abstract shapes composed of glowing red horizontal lines against a deep red background. The forms appear as fragmented, digital-style compositions of light.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

Rows of glowing white light strips create a grid against a dark background. The top half of the image is bathed in a deep red glow.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

A grid of glowing white horizontal dashes against a dark background. A green light washes over the centre of the image, creating a soft gradient.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

A 3D render of glowing yellow spheres floating over a background of orange and red gradients. A grid of thin, white horizontal lines ripples across the scene.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

A series of glowing red, wavy lines stretch across a black background. The lines ripple and peak in the centre, resembling a digital signal or a sound wave.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

A series of glowing, horizontal lines ripple across a black background. The colours transition from a bright yellow on the left to a deep red on the right.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

An abstract image of glowing horizontal white lines over a blurred background of red and cyan. The colours bleed into one another, creating a soft, digital haze.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

A digital render of glowing green horizontal lines against a black background. The lines are arranged in two abstract, mirrored clusters that suggest a distorted, high-tech landscape.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

An abstract image in deep blue and cyan. A bright, glowing orb of light sits at the bottom centre, crossed by a series of thin, horizontal white lines.
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Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone: Tangents (still)

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www.hanslo.com
www.jackfeatherstone.co.uk

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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