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2018 ADC Awards - Advertising

Live Looper

Agency BBDO / New York + BBDO Studios / New York

Client Downtown Records
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About the Work

We created a Facebook Live music video in which we used Facebook’s delay as a audio/visual loop pedal. Downtown Records asked us to promote The Academic’s new single ‘Bear Claws’. The Academic are super tight live musicians– so we pursued an innovative twist on their live performance. We discovered that when you stream on Facebook Live, it takes some time before the video pops up on your page. And that you can create an infinite loop-effect by filming your own Facebook-page during that live-stream. After an intense R&D phase, we successfully turned Facebook Live’s delay into an audio/visual loop-sampler - precise enough to loop the song. We rearranged every instrument to fit the length of Facebook’s delay and introduced the musical layers one by one. The whole recording was live and had to be performed spotlessly in a single take. The music video reached reddit’s front-page and went viral overnight.