Eclectic Method

Eclectic Method is the British video remixer Jonny Wilson, now based in Barcelona. The project started as a trio and grew out of audiovisual experiments in the 1990s, after Wilson worked on a music project with Brian Eno and Coldcut in support of children affected by the war in Bosnia. He built a reputation cutting film, television and music together into dance tracks, which turned into official work for U2, Fatboy Slim, Motown, Comedy Central and Rick and Morty, collaborations with Childish Gambino, Snoop Dogg and Chuck D, and appearances on Fallon, Colbert and Corden. The YouTube channel has passed twenty million views, with the Star Wars remixes the best known. That practice always ran against copyright, so when he moved into NFTs after watching Beeple, he changed the input rather than the method: he and his wife Maria began building their own footage in Cinema 4D and remixing that instead of other people's films. His SuperRare tagline, video music not music videos, is the shortest description of the work. He has released on SuperRare, Rarible, KnownOrigin, Foundation, OpenSea and Tezos, and has collaborated with Bootsy Collins and XCOPY.

He makes audiovisual loops where the cut is the beat: the edit, the sound and the animation are made together rather than one being scored to the other. Since moving onchain he models his own characters and sets in Cinema 4D so the source material is his, which frees him from the licensing that constrained the remix work. Recent pieces run on crypto native subjects, including the XCOPY tributes, the CC0 Band and Right Click Save As.

• Pioneering video remix, including the Star Wars remixes
• Official remix work for U2, Fatboy Slim, Motown, Comedy Central and Rick and Morty
• Crypto Funk, his NFT collaboration with Bootsy Collins
• The XCOPY Remix and Right-click save as, Left-click sound on
• The CC0 Band, built from CC0 NFT characters
• The slogan video music not music videos

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