Max Cooper - Platonic - Official Video by Páraic McGloughlin
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Things got pretty mad on this one after I set the task of trying to visualise the Platonic realm of form underlying reality. And Páraic McGloughlin has come up with something of a masterpiece I think, using a single day-long shot, whose time-based processing is linked to the more than 100 layers of audio I used to create the music…it’s fairly intense on the audio and visual as a result, but all so precisely carried out by Páraic. A huge amount of work has gone into this on all fronts, I hope you enjoy it.
This all links into my new album project, ‘One Hundred Billion Sparks’, about our hundred billion firing neurons which create who we are, all we know and experience (www.onehundred...). As a sub-topic for one of the music/video projects, I’ve always found it fascinating how mathematicians and scientists talk about “discovering” laws of nature, never “creating” them, even when they’re working in entirely abstract realms with little or no link to the real world. The laws and structure are usually assumed to exist independently of us in a sense very much linked to Plato’s ancient idea of the realm of ideals, with only our minds giving us access to this realm.
I came across this idea delivered in stark form in the case of the “amplituhedron”, an entity whose structure encodes fundamental particle interactions, and whose creators claim it to yield space and time in an emergent manner, so that it can’t possibly exist out there in the real world that we’re familiar with. If it does exist, it is outside of time and space, whatever that means! All this might sound like I’m falling off the cliff a little in terms of anything to do with making music videos, but, as I often find to be the case with this sort of investigation of nature, it’s rich with beautiful visual forms and many ideas which are ripe for musical representation on emotive and structural grounds.
The general musical theme to attempt was that of a world of all (or at least as many as I could cram in) precise structures, with particular attention to the jagged complex form of the amplituhedron. Páraic also employed the same approach visually. Musically this was a lot of fun, and very much in fitting with what I like to attempt anyway, just requiring a greater devotion of time and more attention to detail than my norm.
Most of the 100-120 layers of different sounds were synthesised, each layer comprising a specific aesthetic musically, but with little repetition, so that I could have something like a world of independent forms, related, but each its own distinct entity, all mixed together to push the overall complexity in line with the concept. This included many layers of synth processing - I tried to take each part and force it into new, but related forms. I enforced strict quantisation, trying to keep everything rhythmically stuck to grid, to give that feeling of sharpness and precision despite the mess of many layers.
Max Cooper
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The idea for the Platonic video came from the thought of just how much is going on in one single day.
In the brief, Max wrote "Underneath all of this mess however, it needed a simple core, the constant chord progression." So I thought it was fitting to have a simple core running through the entire video and it being made from one location shot over the space of one day, keeping up with the music’s "messy" energy as the track developed.
Aesthetically I love the mix of abstraction and realism and this was a great place for me to explore this. Using a fundamental image (a time lapse) to mask and cut into, I tried to show the variable possibilities within a limited time span, maintaining the integrity of each individual photograph while dissecting and rearranging the overall image.
In order to get as close a relationship from audio to visual as possible I tried to allocate a certain time of day or shape to each individual sound in the track , experimenting with animated sequences using platonic shapes, and referencing images based on the amplituhedron, later using mats and directly masking over many layers of photographs.
I tried to incorporate and inject a feeling of possibility, the unknown, hidden truths, and what might be.
I wanted the main focus of the video to be on time and space but I also I wanted to have an underlying human element. Choosing a motorway with two way traffic fit nicely, and didn't over populate the scene.
Nineteen hours sitting on a bridge in Sligo town, and a good stint behind the computer and we're done.
Páraic Mc Gloughlin, director
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Pàraic is so incredibly talented.
I could spend hours in photoshop making something akin to a single frame of this video... and be proud of it. I would so love to see Páraic's process. from video capture to editting.. such care
You’d be in the wrong app, then buddy, it’s mostly after effects
I wish I could click "love".
If moments are colors, does that make spacetime a rainbow?
Nature and science, combined with philosophical or existential reflections about them, will never cease to provide the most powerful and beautiful inspiration for art. This is most apparent for me through your work max, and it's always great to know your favorite artist will never run out of inspiration because their source of it is infinitely giving.
Zenmo beautiful comment amigo
If we are living in a Matrix, then at least it's a Matrix full of Platonic beauty that is perhaps all one needs to live for. 😉
UA-cam encoder :
"Kill me please."
ha! I love this comment. a vanishingly small subset within a vanishingly small subset
Sublime.
...and then "1:00" happened = mind blown°°°
Un poco de todo cracks
That was epic. I need raw of this without compression! D:
This is truly art
I LOOOOOOOOOVE THIS TRACK! BRAVO
An incredible work. I wish I could make something ¼ that good. And I'd settle for ½ of that ¼. Nice synching with the excellent music.
A fucking work of art in so many ways. More than a song, so much more than a video.
Well fucking done to Max and the videographer/editor. Incredible job forming a concept so perfectly into one video.
which software you think , he use for that ? mostly for graphic thing...?
He's shot a timelapse, then would have presumably edited the video in Premiere Pro CC. I assume the animations probably done in Adobe Animate and then flattened and saved as its own video, then used as a mask to composite the different videos together. I can see the shapes of the original video have been used so composites could show up in certain places and not others - i.e. the roads only, or horizons only, etc.
I could be wrong, the graphics could be done in something else entirely. It's incredibly intricate whatever he's done, as each layer has a different time stamp from the original video. Whatever it was, it would've taken him a long time to do.
Wow. This is just amazing and mesmerizing.
Прекрасно
LSD
how does this only have 50k views after 4 years.....
YT algorithms
YEAAH!!!
how many days and nights of work ? this is completely hypnotic, brilliant work on music and on video
what a video... respect!!
My system crashed watching this video. After effects Uninstalled itself.
Definitlive help to life
Any chance of a 4K upload? Even just for 1080 viewing, as YT murders bandwidth on such visually busy pieces resulting in so many compression artefacts.
@@YourHighnessssss awww, you got my hopes up, but it's just the same. Max does have at least another 4K clip up, so here's hoping it might be a standard some time soon
You never cease to amaze me.
Fantastic work as always.
Can't wait for the next one!!
WOW!!!! this is fucking amazing... The music and the visuals., great work of both
Loved the music but the video not no good for my seizure disorder 😢 damn it.. it was so cool to watch until I couldn’t watch anymore!
just incredible
Very ,very nice but, it needs more cowbells ! More cowbells!!
Oh man...... I missed this so much. You and McGloughlin bring me such nice memories. You two make as great as Aphex Twin and Cuningham did back in the 00's.
This is insanely beautiful!..
Wonderful. You are truly an inspiration
I always liked you max. But you're achieving god tier!
You've got a great part of my view of the universe expressed in this video. I love it
thic clip makes you feel that internet never stops
woooow no comment
Wow, I never knew that Microsoft Powerpoint had so much potential
One of the best songs ever!!!
Big thanks to Max for this masterpiece.
Nada como para verlo bien ácido
the future is now
Vine por UPDT :^)
Igual yo, pero aún asi la rola esta buenísima
@@gass8821 uff si
This is insanely cool
Х - хорошо!
Sagrado.. Love you Max
i love you
This track is a remix of another Max Cooper track... BRB just going through a 300 track back catlogue to figure out which track.
Mad ting
Stupenda!
Is Páraic related to Kevin?
They are twin brothers
Монтаж божественный
A lot of love and care went into this! Amazing!
The artist and others may enjoy the works of Stephen Wilkes ( stephenwilkes.com/fine-art/day-to-night/ )
Outstanding! Inspirational! Thank you!
Oh wow, I got lost there
I LOOOOOOVE ITTTTTTT...TTT.......T...❤
wow wow... This is amazing!
wow
Nice ..
You pixel me, to my core.
What a trip
THIS IS DOPE
Woah
oof
inspiring!
Beautiful
Amazing!!!
AMAZING
this is just different layerings of the time of day
Fix the title Max Coper 😉
lol....thanks
I got you friend :)
I forgot to mention that the track is fantastic and the visuals are once again out of this world.
Iio
you miss an O in Cooper xd
oops!
Max Cooper needs to be SPREAD more.. share, market and push him forward love u max.. This is #worldclass #wintergatan #tesla #elonmusk #tomorrowland prime prime motherfucking Electronica.. I dont even have to make music when I have geniouses like you guys.. #JOnHopkins ++ d sorts
Love it