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A surreal collage of a room with a person sitting cross-legged on a patterned blue sofa. A giant fried egg floats against a red wall, while a figure in a white suit peers through a window.

Incredible interactive website for Ty Segall's new single Manipulator

Words
Liv Siddall
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Date
10 September 2014

Considering New York band Parquet Courts recently announced in an interview that they were staying away from social media and the web because it wasn’t “punk,” it comes as something of a surprise that lo-fi punk master Ty Segall has just released a music video with an accompanying interactive website. I guess this is what happens when you make brilliant, unique music – artists start queuing up to interpret it for you, be it through artwork, remixes or websites.

Ty’s video for new single Manipulate is directed by Matt Yoka and is accompanied by a site coded by Simon Wiscombe, which allows you to click all over a scene and completely manipulate (geddit?) what you’re seeing. According to an interview over on The Creators Project there are actually one trillion combinations. One trillion! To be honest, just talking about this thing won’t do it justice – go and spend five minutes on it yourself. It’s fucking brilliant.

An ornate gold frame hangs by two strings against a backdrop of red velvet curtains. Inside the frame, a bright green background features the handwritten text “TF Segall Manipulator”. Below the frame, a pixelated white cursor points to the text “Click on objects in the scene to manipulate them.”
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A collage of a person sitting on a yellow quilted daybed in a room with pink walls and red carpeting. To their left, a large black and white portrait is pinned to a striped wall.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A digital collage of a surreal interior scene set within an ornate gold frame. A person in a blue shirt sits on a patterned blue sofa, surrounded by oversized images of shoes, a face, and a green figure behind curtains.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A surreal digital collage set within an ornate gold frame. A person wearing thick black glasses and a purple garment is centered against a cosmic background of stars and nebulae, with a blue brain resting on their head. A gorilla’s face and a partial figure appear on either side.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A surreal collage set against a vibrant, psychedelic background of swirling red, yellow and purple patterns. A central figure wears an ornate black mask and a textured grey beard, with a blue brain resting on their head. To the left, a person is enclosed in a clear plastic dome, and to the right, a chimpanzee looks on with an open mouth.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A surreal collage in a gold frame shows a person playing an electric guitar in a desert. They are surrounded by disparate elements, including a giant green plant, a skyscraper topped with a sculpture, and a large white profile of a face.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

A surreal collage set in a desert landscape, framed in an ornate gold border. A person holding an electric guitar floats in the centre, beneath a giant baby’s head in a cloudy sky.
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Ty Segall: Manipulator

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www.ty-segall.com/manipulator

About the Author

Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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