Battles - “Dot Net” (Official Video)

Math rock spazz trio Battles put out their third cheekily-titled instrumental album La Di Da Di earlier this year, and today they’ve shared the Ben Jones-directed video for “Dot Net.” As Pitchfork reports, the video is an initial release in Warp’s Arts film series for Channel 4. It depicts a woman in a museum calmly watching kaleidoscopic, psychedelic patterns swirl in and out of focus. It also involved an Apple Watch.

Here’s what Jones had to say about the video:

The exploration of the digital territory between abstract graphic user interfaces, polyrhythms and human interaction was a paramount inspiration of this video. Prodding and proving the causality of passive engagement vs hyper-addiction concerning the influence of “screen time” (using the video and audio of an iPad or iPhone or etc….). In the end we kept returning to this jump off: “Is this a dope music vid to have on your Apple Watch? Yes or No?”