Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure takes his sonic cues from the rock and roll toolkit. McClure creates synthetic soundtracks by masking, bleaching, or sanding off the celluloid emulsion on the optical soundtrack, which is then run through the projector’s amplifier and sent out to a labyrinth of electric guitar effect pedals such as distortion, delay, and chorus. McClure uses multiple projectors in his cameraless pieces, along with colored gels, colored inks, metal plates inserted into the film shoe assembly/pressure plate–the part of the …

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