Pan Sonic
Kuvaputki (Blast First Petite)
 
Edward Quist, is an American digital visual artist who worked closely with Pansonic to make this redux digital film of Edward Quist's 1999 documentary on Pan Sonic's dramatic "Round the World Tour."
Although it has been shown occasionally at film and music festivals, most notably at Sonar Festival, Kuvaputki, ( Finnish for Cathode Ray Tube) is the tour re-imagined and re-envisioned, the documentary core remains, but it has been twisted and shaped in conjunction to Pan Sonic's improvisations, taking on a new form and life.
Vainio and Väisänen are immersed in the imagery of the cathode which seems to live and infect their physicality over the course of three parallel films until they merge with their own sound and into Quist's surreal and at times sinister vision.
The dvd is in Dolby 5. 1. and just so you know, it's got strobing effects so beware if you're prone to epilepsy.