Pop Convergence 2021

For our breaks between the daytime sessions, members of our Programming Committee volunteered to curate/create short bits of "bonus beats" content.

For this break, we have:

1. "White Rabbit," a 2020 music video by Songs for Tony (including alumnus from NYU Clive Davis Institute): "Disruption and turbulence are foregrounded. The mechanical loop distorts and modulates before disintegrating and reemerging as a slower, more menacing version of itself (mirrored in the video by our transformation into otherworldly levitating vampires). We try to make each element sound like either an animal or a machine - fuzzed-out drum sequences, synthesizers and kaleidoscopic vocals glomming together into a mechanized White Rabbit to lead us into a new industrial dancepunk wonderland."
2. "ZD005," a 2021 music video by NYU Clive Davis Institute alumnus Zhon Doe: "We're in a pretty-person industry. But “prettiness” changes. And pretty people are interchangeable. Yet somehow what people find pretty seems set in stone."