The Sigla Blog

Chris Cunningham made two stunning but controversial videos for Aphex Twin in the 1990s. ‘Come To Daddy’ made it to number 35 in Channel 4’s Most Scary Moments, mainly for the image of an oversized demon figure bellowing at a nice little old lady. In ‘Windowlicker’, Richard D. James (one of the best things to come out of Limerick) is more playful and the video has been the topic of much discussion. One of the most fascinating angles, is not about Cunningham’s visual mayhem, but the idea that there is an actual image - of a demon - hidden in the audio of Track 2 of the ‘Winderlicker’ EP.

To view it, the track is run through a spectrograph programme. A guy over on this site did some manipulating of the audio and imagery and discovered that demon is in fact, Mr. James himself. It’s an interesting read, and he features a couple of other artists who have used the technique of imbedding images into their music. Another act, is Plaid: on the track ‘3recurring’ from Rest Proof Clockwork, there are multiple images of threes.

You can watch the full ‘Windowlicker’ video here: