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Pelacur Muzik (Musical Prostitute)

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2023 | 15 mins 51 secs | 1080 x 1920 | Stereo | Color | Bahasa & English with English subtitles 

Pelacur Muzik (PM) is a sing-along video essay about singer-songwriter Suiko Takahara (Taka) of The Venopian Solitude. More specifically about a song she wrote and recorded over 2-days in a state of gleeful frenzy titled PM (Musical Whore). 


PM is also the main track in Taka’s recent album Hikayat Gundik Berirama (Chronicles of the Musical Concubine). An epic concept album about the rise and fall of a musical prodigy. Obviously not a self-portrait of Taka, nudge-nudge, wink-wink.

 

This video is a playful exposition about the intersection between art and commerce. PM adopts a vertical 9:16 format and is visually inspired by the omnipresent smartphone and all its trappings. The all-knowing black mirror in our age of perpetual connectivity. 

 

PM is the 4th video essay from MAW, a long term video essay project on Malaysian artists. 

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Other video essays from MAW

Extended conversations with Taka

These audio clips are from a series of recorded conversations with Takahara Suiko from April 2016 to April 2017.

Aggregated Media

Pelacur Muzik - Video Links
The Human EYE slow motion macro | IRIS in 4K | BMPCC4K
00:44
Macro Video of Human Eye & Iris
00:10
Macro Video of my Eyeball
00:19
Tetsuo Loses Control || Akira(1988) Full Scene 4K
08:55
Freddie Mercury Interview Musical Prostitute part 2
05:36
[ANIME-SCENES] Batou vs Doll Army (Ghost In The Shell: Innocence).
10:08
Jin-Roh - Incident in the Sewers
06:54
The Assassination - Ghost in the Shell (1995)
03:48
Pelacur Muzik - Music Links
Song 1 : Langit Bungkam
05:20
Song 5 : Pelacur Muzik
05:14
Pelacur Muzik
04:26
Queen - Hammer To Fall (Live Aid 1985)
04:48
Song 5 ½(?) : Folded Diamonds
05:09
BORISLAV STRULEV - J.S. Bach - Air on the G String
04:19
Falling (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
02:32
Third Ear Audio - Freak of Nature
07:22
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