Max Cooper - Ascent - Official video by Martin Krzywinski
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2022
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MAX COOPER:
This audio-visual project with Martin Krzywinski came from site specific feelings and ideas. Initially St Michielskerk Leuven, and then Herodes Atticus amphitheatre at the Acropolis in Athens, where the project had its first two outings into the world. I was trying to capture the uncapturable idea of transcendence. It needed to ascend further than anything I had made before. I tried to keep it as simple as possible to focus on the power of what would yield that experience, the synth chords and timbre. I kept the chord progression fairly loose so as not to fall into obvious repeats, and constantly modulated it higher as the many layers of screaming distortion built along with some bass wave interference which gives some extra low body shaking effect if you listen with good bass response or a sub-pac. The initial installation version was built with beds containing low frequency shakers so you would lie down and have your whole body vibrated as you looked up into the ceiling of the cathedral, for something like a weightlessness effect.
In order to create transcendence visually, I chatted to Martin about two techniques which I felt would provide a fittingly intense and overwhelming analogy. An ascent in spatial dimensionality, combined with a mapping of the digits of a transcendental number. We are used to living in 3-dimensions of space, but we can construct models of worlds in whatever number of spatial dimensions we want. Martin coded a system to start from a 1-dimensional point and smoothly transition up to 5-dimensions of space, alongside creating a tree map of the digits of pi, similarly to our old Transcendental Tree Map project from Yearning for the Infinite album, but now mapped to the surfaces of 5D hypercubes. Needless to say it goes heavy on the visual barrage, peaking in noise, just as the music does....an epic visual job from Martin!
Thanks for having a read and a look and listen. If you want to find out about wider Unspoken Words project this is part of, please visit unspokenwords.net/.
MARTIN KRZYWINSKI:
The scene takes place on a 5-dimensional stage, which is projected onto two dimensions for display. Initially, all dimensions are collapsed.
Initially, the first dimension grows to form a line. Then the second to form a square and the third to form a cube. When the fourth dimension is introduced, it has the effect of creating what appears to be two copies of the cube. The cubes are slowly joined by lines, which represent the edges in the fourth dimension. This is followed by the appearance of the fifth dimension and edges that connect to it.
A 5-dimensional cube (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-cube), or penteract, has 32 vertices and 80 edges, 80 2-dimensional faces, 40 3-dimensional faces and 10 4-dimensional (tesseract) faces. As the 5-dimensional cube rotates, you can get a glimpse of its lower-dimensional components, like 3-dimensional cubes coming in and out of focus.
Individual faces of the 5-dimensional cube are traced out and split off from the cube to form 5 independently rotating cubes. The scene itself rotates throughout the clip in 5-dimensions.
Outlines of tree maps of the first approximation of Pi (22/7) start appearing on various faces of these cubes. For more details about these maps, see maxcooper.net/transcendental-...
The corners of each cube begin to be filled in - there are 5 axes at each corner. We can see the planes at these corners shrink and grow as the cubes and scene continue to rotate in 5-dimensions. In color versions of this video, the color of each plane encodes its position in the third dimension, which can be thought as in/out of the screen.
Next, tree map segments for the next approximation of pi (179/57) are projected and grow on the faces of four new 5-dimensional cubes. The scene evolves towards a specific rotation in 5-dimensional space that temporarily reduces the complexity of the elements on the screen. Further rotation changes the point of view and we see the complexity of everything again.
For the finale, another four cubes are added to the scene with tree maps of the digits of Pi. The scene now contains 13 5-dimensional cubes independently rotating, with continuous changes to the scale of each dimension. The number of individual elements on the scene grows so large as to render a scene that is essentially noise.
The scene ends with all 5 dimensions collapsing. As elements shrink, we glimpse the entirety of the stage before it fades away.
CREDITS
Music: Max Cooper, maxcooper.net
Visuals: Martin Krzywinski, mkweb.bcgsc.ca
Label: Mesh, meshmeshmesh.net
All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper - no use without permission
Oh man, UA-cam is absolutely choking on this video!
Dude, thought it was just me.
I can’t get it to play without buffering every 5 seconds 😢
Works fine for me. You sound like you need better internet.
@@jackaguirre8576 everything else works perfectly in 4k. Something is up with this particular video stream on Roku 🤷🏼♂️
Max usually puts his stuff on Vimeo too, which seems to handle the high detail much better
man this dude kills it every time
krzywinski did a beautiful job on that video too
Yes!
Saw Max's 3D AV show last night in San Francisco. This track was one of those moments when the physicality of the sound coupled with these images was transcendent. Saw many people embracing each other in utter joy. A blissful, euphoric moment. Thank you Max!
I saw this live too and omg it was euphoric thats the best description, it sounded like an orgasm feels haha
Awesome stuff, max cooper has some of the best and most creative and abstract and artistically beautiful music videos, hands down.
@@w_ll__4824 yes yes, absolutely
I'd confidently say the best.
Amazing video and sounds. Even youtube player is crying
This should be in a Hollywood big budget space movie
Fantastic! Also froze me phone's UA-cam app 👌
This video is a great stress test for youtube decoder
*beautiful*
(words are not enough to describe this)
the moment I heard this song, I knew I'd have to listen to Aleph 2 after. Every single time. And it will never get old.
This is truly transcendental and sublime ❤️🥺🔥
This is what probably cell division looks like in 4th dimension.
Greetings from Poland.
Max is doing great job with totally unique style :)
Amazing, thanks Max and Martin!
Why do I want to cry?
Some very inspired VJing, I really love how this pairs with the music.
Can't wait to see you tomorrow in Athens, Max!
A thing of beauty
Music-video incredible as always!!! Glad to see you have more fans!
This is quite beautiful
your work is always amazing, it's a unique moment🤟👏👏
Incredible. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Just saw this live, absolutely stunning
Utterly incredible!
MAXXXXXX i am living for your music masterclass!!!
Stunning & Very Moving.
Your work is on another level ❤
Grandiose important vibes
well that was fucking insane.
Sublime work as always Max & Martin. Can't wait for this Saturday to be back in London for your show! 🤩
Muito bom! Thank you so much! Obrigado!
incredible
I am ready to have my mind and my ears blown
I've seen him live about 5 times now (especially the live A/V show this year was so awesome!). After not listening for a while it's always great to come back to a new production.
got tickets to see him next month, I know to expect something amazing
@@Dilworthy Awesome! im going to see max at the Rockhal im super stoked. Where are you seeing him?
@@larcomj It's in Manchester UK, I imagine we will be blown away by the show, enjoy!
awesome
lISTENED TO THIS A HUNDRED TIMES,STILL GET GOOSEBUMPS,EPIC=CORNISH WAVES MUSIC
Wow
heckin wow
i genuinely got high watching this video. i mean, i was before but it escalated it pretty deeply
Madness starts at 4:40. Max kept telling me "we need more complexity here". So at every pixel there's 1000's of stacked elements doing their thing.
When you have to live through a pardagma shift, its a great work for it. thx
Класне відео, схоже на авангард Джесіки Ін "void", але значно спокійніше
grandios
Dark and eerie - love it. Also, love the geometric shapes used in the visuals.
.dziekuje bardzo🔥🔥🔥 pozdro z Bialorusi🙏
🙏🏻🇮🇷🖤
The ole origami engineering
little tesseract
Great now I'm stuck in the 6th dimension... halp!
OMG Re u from our universe?
Parfait mariage musique/image.
Seriously good music and graphics together.
I would love to see some colors introduced - a different one for each of the 5 dimensions.
And yes, UA-cam choking on it lol
I hear you! There are a couple of color versions that I made for Max. Maybe at some point he'll remix those.
Эти клипы - визуальные наркотики...
next track: Entropy & Demise
It's pretty close, but lost it @ 2.24
thought i could be the first to react :(
“Geometry sucks!”
Geometry:
would be a pleasure to see this video without the abhorrent compression of youtube.
The UA-cam compression is not amused.
Selling NFTs to your public is a shame. Very disapoited in your business choices Max.
If you'd like to learn more about how the video was made, check out mkweb.bcgsc.ca/max-cooper-ascent/
Thank you! It appears to throw an error though?
Геометрия ограниченная сценария, но не был да очень красиво мне прямо очень соглашусь
@dune2