Artist Signe Dige patchworks together a glitched-out assemblage of 3D scans and CGI in the video for ‘Joy Divided’, the veryfirst single from the launching album from Danish duo Lyra Valenza.
Lyra Valenza are back for the veryfirst time giventhat their 2020 EP, Nightshade Edition, with ‘Joy Divided’, the veryfirst single from their launching album, Low Gear No Pressure. Working in partnership with artist Signe Dige, the Danish duo bring the complex club building to life with a video checkingout deserted city areas utilizing janky 3D scans. “I love ‘poor’ 3D scans,” discusses Dige. “They have a levelofsensitivity and vulnerability that you typically puton’t see in digital media. Everything can be changed and regulated when working digitally, so I genuinely love these fractured copies of genuine locations, as it keeps a kind of soul within its defects.”
“In huge cities, we are surrounded by individuals, triggering these city locations to exist in their function for us, Dige continues. “But when deserted and taken out of their context, these locations endedupbeing a physical area of memories and time.” Winding our method through overlooked streets, all collapsing concrete and lurid graffiti, Signe Dige patchworks together a glitched-out assemblage of 3D scans and CGI, following a suspended thread of fluid, as though the track’s shining synths haveactually manifested as product in virtual area.
“Each area shares their desertion and connection,” includes Dige, “while we follow a lead all the method up to the leading of town, to a line of individuals waiting to getin a brand-new start.” In this method, her patchwork of scans combines domestic environments – bedrooms with doors left open, the short-term corridors of apartmentorcondo structures – into public area, with street-level entryways to trains twisting out into open-plan living spaces and tiled pavements. The outcome is part collapsing dreamscape, part broke