ABSTRACT

In recent years, there has been an increase in using drones outfitted with cameras and unusual lenses to produce music videos. Analyzing Flatbush Zombies featuring Trash Talk’s video “97.92,” this article outlines the contours of this synesthetic space and its position within audiovisual culture. Drone technologies inscribe themselves into the long history of other visual (and sonic) technologies used to expand cinematic forms of expression, and this article shows how drone music videos challenge the conventional spatial order of military and policing drones. This challenge comes in the form of a synesthetic space that produces different forms of embodiment than was previously available to audiovisual media. What drone music videos show is that esthetic and artistic practices may be used to resist the control conventionally articulated by military and policing drones and instead produce a different sensory formation.

摘要

近年来，使用配备摄像机和非常规镜头的无人机来制作音乐视频的数量有所增加。本文分析了《垃圾桶谈话》（Trash Talk）的视频“ 97.92”中的Flatbush Zombies，概述了该合成空间的轮廓及其在视听文化中的位置。无人机技术将自己铭刻在用于扩展电影表达形式的其他视觉（和声音）技术的悠久历史中，并且本文展示了无人机音乐视频如何挑战军用和警务无人机的传统空间秩序。该挑战以合成空间的形式出现，该合成空间产生了与以前视听媒体不同的实施方式。