Even had the Downstream section of this site not expanded recently to include non-downloadable music, it should long ago have paid more attention to video, if for no reason other than the fact that videos are often, such as [this live performance by Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello taped back in February](https://vimeo.com/90310038), intended for offline use. (That said, since this site was online for over a decade before running images, the lack sense of urgency was in the DNA.) The Roden-Vitiello set is an alternately tandem and tag-team project recorded at Eclats in Bourdeaux. They both have at portable sets of modular synesizer tools — plus radio, which Roden wields like a divining rod, and laptop, and a few other devices — in this nearly 40-minute piece. Small vocal snippets are heard amid characteristically slow-moving figments, more textural than melodic, the reluctant pace providing sly cover for just how much sonic material is being heard at any given moment.
More from Roden at [inbetweennoise.com](http://inbetweennoise.com) and from Vitiello at [stephenvitiello.com](http://stephenvitiello.com). The video was shot by Etienne Coussirat. More from Eclats at [eclats.net](http://www.eclats.net/).