Kamiel Rongen conjures alien landscapes inside a fish bowl.
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Kamiel Rongen certainly isn’t the only musician who makes his own music videos. But he might be the only one who makes the videos before laying down the tracks.
The Dutch artist works under the name Hyde Park. The music is nice enough—ambient and electronic. What’s really special are the visuals that go along with it, showing strange, alien landscapes bubbling with primordial goop.
When you watch Rongen’s latest video, it’s hard to tell what’s going on. The scenes are otherworldly but at the same time they look unmistakably real. That, Rongen says, is because they are real. The landscapes all exist inside a fish bowl. Rongen experiments with different liquids to create the blooms and bubbles, running the footage forward and backward at different speeds to enhance the strange effect. The one other big trick? You’re looking at everything upside-down.
Rongen heightens the spectacle by closely tying what you’re hearing to what you’re seeing. He adds little sound effects to the mix, highlighting and punctuating the movement of the alien matter. The editing is tight and highly rhythmic.
The result is science fiction in the most literal sense. Just organic stuff telling an atmospheric story. Without any computer graphics or expensive equipment, Rongen convincingly shuttles us to a world other than our own.
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