“Mental Wormholes in the Night” — Soft Riot Channels Strange Transmissions in His Surreal Video for “Ghostwriter”

Jack Duckworth’s Soft Riot has released a video for ‘Ghostwriter’, the lead single from his album Crux (Possession Records, Minimalkombinat). The song employs Motorik rhythm, clipped electronics, and sprechstimme to explore creation as possession—ideas and transmissions arriving unbidden, inspiration reframed as external interference. The video, made through physical manipulation of printed graphics, hand animation, and rephotographed projections, recalls Dada photomontage and 1980s television aesthetics. Duckworth deliberately chose analogue production methods in collaboration with Leyre Mann Vadillo to work intuitively with people rather than computers, framing the choice as resistance to corporate-controlled digital platforms and late-stage capitalism’s absorption of underground music into metrics and marketing.

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