GSA Student Turns Radioheads

Earlier this year, when Radiohead invited fans to remix tracks from their latest In Rainbows album for nowt, the response was vast and varied. It is unlikely, however, that any bedroom producer went to the extraordinary and ingenious lengths of Airdrie’s James Houston, a student of Glasgow School of Art.

For his Degree Show film Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any), Houston, 21, has recreated the song Nude using clunky and obsolete 1980s computer hardware, from Spectrum Sinclair processers to Dot Matrix machines. He has captured it all beautifully on camera, logged it on Youtube and been the recipient of praise from all and sundry – most notably Colin Greenwood, Radiohead’s bassist, who succinctly described it as “brilliant.”

As if all that heady praise wasn’t enough, Houston also scooped the Newbery Medal and the Bram Stoker Award which is presented to the top final year student at GSA. The video is posted below, but for more information on James, go here.