Wolfgang Tillmans
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Wolfgang Tillmans
Device Control is the opening and closing track on Frank Ocean’s unanticipated visual album, Endless.
At the start of the album, only the intro is heard. The full version closes Endless. Perhaps that’s what Frank means by Endless—the end brings you back to the album’s start. This fits with how the...
[Starts at 0:30 and ends at 0:51]
[Intro]
With this Apple appliance, you can capture live videos
Still motion pictures shot at high frequency
Blurring, blurring the line
[Starts again at 38:48 and ends at 48:50]
[Chorus]
With this Apple appliance, you can capture live videos
Still motion pictures shot at high frequency
Blurring, blurring the line between still and motion
With this Apple device
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
[Verse]
With this Sony Telephone 4K video is in your palm
It is in your palm, in your palm
In your hand, in your hand
With your eyes, with your eyes
You can capture real 4K
With this Samsung telephone, we don't call it telephone
I think I saw billboards describing life interactivity
Life sharing, live posting, streaming off your videos
The new Samsung Galaxy allows you to livestream your life
Livestream your life, livestream your life
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can still stream you life
Your life can be streamed
In endless communication
We all show interest in everybody's life
Your life can be streamed
Life, your life can be streamed
Life, life
[Chorus]
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border between still and motion pictures
You can blur the border
With this device, the border between still and motion pictures is absolutely blurred
[Outro]
Think of the possibilities, think of the possibilities
Think of the possibilities… with this…
Think of… the… possibilities
With this device, stream your life, it's possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
Streaming life in this device is possible
It's in your palm, dreams of pleasure in your hand
This device in your hand, streaming life in streams of pleasure
Blurred, still and motion, audio
Your life is an active stream of life
This stream of life, on this device
Is causing an interactive stream of life
This stream of life, on this device
Is causing a streamed life
A live stream of my life
Is caused by this device
By this device
An internet Scheiß
Ja, so ein großes device
Das schafft einen stream of life
Device Control (Reprise) was written by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Device Control (Reprise) was produced by Tim Knapp & Kyle Combs.
Wolfgang Tillmans released Device Control (Reprise) on Fri Aug 19 2016.
The song starts at approximately 0:30, and ends at 0:51. However, the song starts again at 38:48 and ends at 48:50, which concludes the stream.
Device Control is about various devices we possess and the abilties that they have. Frank hints at the new found addiction to such devices and their subsequent control.
Enormously proud and happy that Frank Ocean did include my (yet unreleased) track ‘Device Control’ as intro and as a full length ending of his ‘Endless’ album! We were in touch about the intro, but I wouldn’t believe it until it happened. Three weeks ago I showed him a few songs, which I had written...