Rainbow Noise
| Title: | Rainbow Noise |
| Creator: | Tashery Shannon |
| Date(s): | 1993? |
| Medium: | print letterzine |
| Fandom: | vidding |
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Sometime in the 1990s, Tashery Shannon started a letterzine for vidders called Rainbow Noise, named for the flashes of color between clips in old songtapes made without a flying erase head built into their editing VCR.
Tashery also included a videotape of vids with a subscription, with the hope that each subscriber would add her own vid to the end until there was a collection of vids of all the vidders in the group.
Here is a sample contribution to the newsletter:
Vids As Audio/Visual Poetry
Music videos pulled me into fandom. I watched a series of Blake's 7 songvids produced by MVD Mary Van Deusen, and became intrigued with the characters and plotlines. Some of them did not make much sense. I eventually collected the 52 hours of B7, and now the B7 songvids not only make sense, they make poetry.
Traditional poetry has the capacity to illuminate a Truth via the intersection of word-meaning and word-sound that comprise the poem. Songvids can do the same, adding a music layer, a visual layer, and a story layer to the rhythm and meaning of the words of a song. This multi-dimensional junction can provide a shortcut for a viewer about characters or storylines of a particular program."(Nicole V, 2004, private correspondence).
In 1993, Tashery wrote a short article about vidding to the Strange New Worlds newsletter (a mid 1990s newsletter that published original non-fiction articles related to TV media, including science fiction, military, and others). In it she described another purpose of the Rainbow Noise newsletter: "Perhaps the greatest barrier to their spread among fans is that song videos cannot legally be sold. .....Giving away your song tapes or trading them, however, is perfectly legal. To be ethical, the vid should be your own work or you should have the permission of the vid maker to distribute it. This circulation among friends is being sped up through a new channel of communication, a recently started newsletter for song vid makers and viewers, Rainbow Noise." Strange New Worlds Issue 9 - Sep/Oct 1993]
(See also VCR vidding.)
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