Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Official video by Eris is Red)
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2023
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Max Cooper:
This chapter of the Unspoken Words album story (www.unspokenwords.net) deals with the arrival of abstract thought as a tool for human expression, visualised by the artist Eris is Red. A hypnotic model of reality is created and explored, with reaction diffusion forms reminiscent of the real world, but never quite real. Familiar symbols are visually referenced as a tool for building and communicating abstraction and new ways of thinking from the ground up, with the new model of reality emerging as meaning emerges from the symbols of our language.
I wrote the piece of music during some difficult times of isolation. It came from a live improvisation where I found a hypnotic repeating structure that made me feel the creation of something new and hopeful. It yielded an abstract space I became lost in for months. I came across the beautiful voice of Kotomi (Lauren Culjak) from the ending sequence of an episode of Rick and Morty (S4 E10), where she sings “Don’t look back” in collaboration with Ryan Elder. Something about her voice immediately grabbed me. It has a beautiful otherworldly quality to it which strengthened the feeling of the abstracted space I was trying to create. And I was surprised and happy to find that she was interested in working together on the track, and ok with me mangled her voice into granular oblivion to try and capture the feeling of human expression without the literal restrictions of lyrics.
The Dolby Atmos mix for the Blu-ray/Atmos streaming version, was created together with Adam Hare and Niels Orens, focusing on an organic slow moving and inviting space for becoming lost inside, without rigid structures, and lots of improvised paths of sounds through space, in line with the feel of the original piece of music.
Eris is Red:
"Wittgenstein's concept of Sprachspiel, or Language Games, describes the fluid nature of how we communicate and how it contextually based and can change the very reality we experience. The organic and ever changing nature of the visuals is intended to represent that core base of our collective reality. The beautiful abstract motion of reaction-diffusion felt the right fit to communicate that concept.
When I was contacted by Max for this project I had been experimenting with a technique of creating animated 2D greyscale image sequences that were then used to drive both 3D displacement as well as material mixes. One side effect of the process is a certain 'banding' that occurs when the bit depth is limited and there is not enough information to have a smooth gradient between the values of black and white, this artefact is usually undesirable, however with the pulsing hypnotic melody of the song I was able lean into it and it became part of the art direction.
After the initial displacement maps were created, they were imported into Cinema 4D, where I displaced flat planes and other objects and did countless experiments of mixing and blending the maps and clamping values to drive material mixes based on the topology. Throughout the process I used both Cycles4D and Redshift to render."
Two of the development software tools I used extensively in the process were:
Visions of Chaos
softology.pro/voc.htm
and
Tim Hutton, Robert Munafo, Andrew Trevorrow, Tom Rokicki, Dan Wills.
"Ready, a cross-platform implementation of various reaction-diffusion systems."
github.com/GollyGang/ready
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CREDITS:
Music: Max Cooper, maxcooper.net
Visuals: Eris is Red, https.// erisisred
Label: Mesh, meshmeshmesh.net
All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper - no use without permission
I was waiting for this one... this visual is absolutely stunning. I think my computer smoked DMT.
MC does a amazing job of bring visual artists to the front. Like a tide lifting all boats in their harbour. Stunning work by Eris (and max as always) You continue to inspire and drive us forward.
These videos are really pushing the compression algorithms :D
It's part of the experience!
I've got the blu ray of the album. It's a much better way to see this one in particular. Compression sucks sometimes
This is most excellent.. I will come back to it on my next trip.. 🍄
Once again, the fabric of reality is changed.
Max... again and again... beautiful music and video. There are no words to describe the depths of your artwork. Every time I listen to... brings me peace and also has beautiful cathartic effect. Very emotional, spiritual and technological. Sublime album, such a preciosity. Congratulations again. Accolade... Thank you. 🤍
Going straight to my "sick music videos" playlist, as usual
Accidentally came across this. Thank god I did, absolutely beautiful.
A sound that catches the first time I hear it
Or, I thought that he made a sound that left an impression on the rhythm composition.
As for the video, he fit is exactly the image of the music.
It enhances the music.
I think I cried a bit
wow
shaders are wild. in vr they are the closest thing to the real psychedelic visual experience, the best thing about vr is finally you can see iridescence in a way that no 2 d monitor can achieve
Man I would love to talk to you on a project I am trying to bring together related to what you are talking about - I work in your field with an ambitious and successful company - but want to step into creating these experiences that shit consciousness - don’t think there is a DM option on UA-cam?
Hi!!!!
Thank you for your musical art!!!!
Every time something new and fresh in these notes )))
Wau, thx Max and Eris, brilliant song and video, excellent work !!
Thanks! I'm such a fan of both your music and the visuals
❤️
I like it very much.
this video make my day lighter
bravo!
omg feels like a deep trip smoking dmt, amazing experience, amazing music that can bring me to it.. Thanks Max!
Absolutely fantastic !!
Wow, can't get over how great this is
i wish i could touch this music video IRL
This is actual visual ASMR!
Man you brought me to tears again, I love these atmosphere of yours. Let's fucking go bro!
Always a feast for the two major senses. And I really wanna touch that stuff in the video, to see what it feels like.
Wonderful work, I love such breakthroughs
❤🙏
Wow, if there were some high quality prints of screenshots available, I might buy one of them, this looks stunning!
lovely
Wonderous
Bravo!!!
Очередная прекрасная аудиовизуальная работа. Браво! Amazing
ingeniously! ❤
Beautiful all around
Beautiful work!
Simply beautiful… hats off to you sir (again) ❤❤
Masterpiece
Absolutely aces...
AMAZING
This man. This Genius. This Legend! ❤️
this is amazing
That sounds and looks SO SATISFYING! Good job! no AMAZING job!
Oh man, what the heck was that! visual and audio orgasm with goosebumps
Like running Milkdrop patterns and generative art but in blender. Looks gorgeous
Always dope sounds
I'm stuck on this video. Wow!
Listened to this a lot now,same as all M cooper tracks,Bloody amazing
I watched this on shrooms. Thank you for enhancing my trip! :D
It's not easy to create visuals for Max Cooper. I mean, the music is creative and it always requires creative visuals to go with it. :)
hipnótico
Those ripples look like layer artifacts in 3D printing ;)
Undivided attention, as always.
How do you even do this? How long does it take? Mindblowing
Please see the work of Dan Tobin Smith.
W0W S0 S1CK!¡
stunning visuals. I am reminded of Death Stranding
That hihat tho
Is it lathe chips? Wood or metalic? Then fluidic. Not until the wavering of sight and sound commit to a kind of memory sense of time and space does it occur that it may be morphonic geometric imaging. Thoughts of walls between dimentional space drift with ideas about fludic space and it's boundaries.
Looks like he used Substance designer for this one !
Does anyone know where we can get/buy these music videos without the heavy YT compression?
Watching this on ketamine is intense (medically administered)
✔
beautiful
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the purpose of poetry is to bait the God of commentary...
the purpose of music is to transcend Him
Hey guy from Omegle we know you’re here
You are very far 😅
finally some good IDM
Currently on 3 grams of ape mushrooms 🍄