Manuel Fischer - Bingus

Beat Wizzard Manuel Fischer returns with this modern and refined piece of music showing us the way to the future. Togeter with Arjan Guerrero he worked out the concept for this video whereas the audio is part of the 15 Years Drumpoet Compilation. Bingus departs from the meme and interpolates it into other weridnesses. The ever-morphing creature resembles the meme, the tokenized sphynx cat, but, just as memes, it travels across transformed visualities and changing associations. Exploring the various connotations of the meme and beyond, this Bingus turns into regular cats but also into strange or mystified cats that one would worship or fear or don’t understand at all. It turns and returns once and again to the aesthetics of the meme, of the token that is nothing specific anymore but potentially many, and unfolds again. Bingus, like memes, is all about movement. It’s not rigged as a cat but performs its style. It is agile and lazy, it likes to cheat on you, it likes to suddenly make a move you can