Max Cooper - Exotic Contents (Official video by Xander Steenbrugge)
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Max Cooper:
I have been exploring the difficulties of communicating with words as part of my new Unspoken Words album project. I was thinking about how to visualise the idea, and started chatting to artist and machine learning specialist Xander Steenbrugge about a system for converting words to visual stories. The idea was to take the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who tackled this question of the difficulties of using words to explain our selves and our place in the world, and to have the AI system re-interpret these writings in visual form, making a direct visual representation of the Unspoken Words album concept.
It's interesting for me to see the incomprehensible philosophical language interpreted visually like this, full of symbolism and the boundaries between language, our selves, and the world, broken down into flowing abstraction. I haven't really taken it all in yet, I feel like there's more to discover in it than I can appreciate. The system has a lot more potential too, we will be running a version where you can have your own words turned into visuals and music as well, keep an eye out on my socials and mailers for that if you'd like to get involved.
The music was a similar departure from my usual interpretation of ideas, where I applied a half time drum and bass format with more aggression and sharpness of sound design. It’s a club track, but for me, an exotic form of club track. The name came from Wittgenstein’s private language argument, and the difficulty of communicating an entirely internal, subjective object to others when we can never directly show the object to each other. He uses the analogy of a beetle in a box, and I refer to the idea instead as our exotic contents.
Xander Steenbrugge:
From the very start of this collaboration, Max and myself were very eager to leverage
the latest advances in AI to directly visualize language through the mind of the machine.
For the past few months, in fact, I've been exploring this approach using a combination
of two machine learning models: a generative system called VQGAN, which can generate pixels
starting from a blank canvas, and a perceptual system called CLIP that guides this generator
by scoring how well the generated imagery matches a given language prompt. Through this
feedback loop, the system can be used to directly convert language into the visual domain.
After an early phase of experimentation with this technique, we quickly settled on Wittgenstein's
Tractatus as a great narrative for this technique as it deals directly with the relationship between
language and reality and aims to define the limits of science.
This final video then, is a direct visualisation of many of the statements posed by Wittgenstein in
his seminal work, as interpreted by the AI.
Here you can find some examples of the timestamps and corresponding language prompts used to create the visual narrative:
0:00 "The world is everything that is the case"
0:16 "Any one can either be the case or not be the case, and everything else remain the same"
0:29 "I am my world"
0:41 "According to Wittgenstein: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"
0:52 Tractatus quotes
1:00 "The picture is a model of reality"
1:26 "Objects form the substance of the world."
1:42 Tractatus quotes
1:56 "The picture is a model of reality"
2:10 "A name is a primitive sign"
2:23 "What can be shown cannot be said"
2:38 "There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical"
3:19 Tractatus quotes
5:15 "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"
5:20 "The world is everything, I am my world"
CREDITS:
Music by Max Cooper
Video by Xander Streenbrugge
Record Label - Mesh
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Please never stop making masterful art pieces. I would lose a part of me.
@franciscomackenney7664
2 жыл бұрын
iu
@smellymala3103
2 жыл бұрын
🔧
@erichopham
2 жыл бұрын
Lose*
@krolo5907
2 жыл бұрын
Most certainly this is amazing art and I'm sure it was greatly influenced by Xander, but this was produced using Artificial Intelligence.
@JCplusplus
2 жыл бұрын
@@krolo5907 perhaps they were referring to the music itself. or maybe the music + the video together (as art).
There are no words to express how my mind is processing this... it's as if thoughts themselves are displayed on screen... 🙏🏻
@besknighter
2 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I was thinking while watching the video. As if this visualization is a good approximation of what concepts in our mind actually are, how the models our brain makes of the world around us "look like". Or, as you said, that we are looking at thoughts themselves. Almost as if we were to look directly at the behind the scenes of our mind and [sub]consciousness.
@toi_techno
Жыл бұрын
the nearest I've seen to a visualisation of what a ketamine trip is like
@antonystringfellow5152
Жыл бұрын
It reminds me of my dreams. As a result of having fibromyalgia, I get very little deep sleep (dreamless sleep) so I dream more than I should and as I also wake quite frequently, I remember most of them. Like these StableDiffusion dreams, most of our dreams lack temporal awareness. As in these creations, there is a degree of continuity but nothing like in reality. So, while dreaming, we are aware and our visual cortex is working, creating a photo-realistic simulation, but those parts of our brain that usually process information in a way that gives us intelligence are not functioning as they do when we're awake. Neither do we have access to much of our memory, long or short term, and so we're left with very little temporal awareness. I find it interesting (and very informative) that we can be fully aware of our existence, having a regular conscious experience, while at the same time being dumb as a box of rocks, which we usually are when we're dreaming.
@mikeexits
3 ай бұрын
Have you ever had a lucid dream? It changes a lot about what you think about dream consciousness. At least, it did for me. Astral Projection takes that line of thought way further too (speaking from experience).@@antonystringfellow5152
This is the future I like to imagine for how machines could dream
@shivagoddess333
2 жыл бұрын
Yessss
@AckzaTV
2 жыл бұрын
explains human dreaming wow
The transfer between the art styles is absolutely unreal, never seen anything quite like that. And that music to match it👏
@mist273
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it is impressive. My guess is that this was probably done with some new variation of hallucinatory convolutional neural networks. EDIT: Oh, I just realized he explained it in the description. It is a feedback loop between two AI techniques, one that generates images from text and another one that guides the generation by scoring the images, probably frame by frame. I'm shocked by these new forms of art which would be impossible to create for a human on its own.
@kevin_heslip
2 жыл бұрын
@@mist273 just think, this evolved from the same programs that did those creepy face LSD videos. Imagine what it’ll be in another 5 or 10 years
@dfhdf4214
2 жыл бұрын
@@kevin_heslip what are you referring to exactly? i remember a lot of "LSD affects" videos from a while ago but none of those used machine learning.. and i had thought i was pretty current on AI art but maybe i missed one?
@kevin_heslip
2 жыл бұрын
@@dfhdf4214 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpuEw6WQeq-diKw.html This sort of thing
@mikeexits
2 жыл бұрын
MGMT's When You Die music video has a few parts that are reminiscent of this. I recommend checking it out.
How utterly astounding. Humbling. I don't even know anymore. Everything from the titled segments to the majestic soundwork. How incremental and thoughtful, scientific and mathematic and beautiful. What a burst of creativity. These artists are well above average. I'll be around for what follows.
@carltonrandom
2 жыл бұрын
I was playing a lot of Max Cooper et al's material at work earlier. It's strange how things arrive on time when not expected.
@franciscomackenney7664
2 жыл бұрын
my lord
@tie.dye.dragonfly
2 жыл бұрын
you wrote what i felt. and i got to read what i felt, without being able to write it. thank you.
@BestiaTerra
2 жыл бұрын
@@tie.dye.dragonfly yes. thank you for going ahead and commenting for me
@mikeexits
3 ай бұрын
I think you'd like Deliverance by Culprate. Blew my mind like no other art piece. And it's a decade old, like, wow.
My jaw refuses to undrop. This is the weirdest, most beautiful thing to come out of AI so far! Amazing work 😄
Jeez. Amazing how often Max pairs with artists who can fit an entire world/universe into a few minutes of visuals. Max's music is a listening experience like that too.
I am absolutely struck by how similar this is at times to some of my psychodelic experiences. I'd love to understand the parallels between a fragmented, hallucinating mind and the way AI "thinks" here - and whether it hints at some structural similarities of our visual processing.
@MrMargaretScratcher
2 жыл бұрын
I think it's like the "What does this look like" part of the optical/neural interaction without the "but does that actually make sense" part that filters most of it out...
@giulianobilofioravanti560
2 жыл бұрын
Me too. I'm very intrigued by how similarly the visual information gets elaborated.
@Hector-wh7yb
2 жыл бұрын
Aldous Huxley has a great thought on the psychedelic experience, he says that our mind usually has a biig filter that filters out a lot of `raw` stimuli and that's essentially how we make sense of the world, but in the psychedelic experience that filter, becomes smaller and smaller til in some cases we begin to experience our `raw` vision, touch, thoughts, etc I think a parallel could be drawn with how ai does process vision/thoughts because is `unfiltered` by the human mind The book where Huxley talks about this is called `The doors of percetion`
You are the king of art.👑
Incredible! The AI visuals are much more flowing and cohesive than what I've seen before. And I like the half time dnb feel a lot! Always have haha
I cried the first time I heard this song. It's strange to me to read Max describe this as a club track, because I produce dance music and this to me is so far beyond a club track. It's therapeutic. The tension and release within that textural harmony is unreal, its perfectly unpredictable. So lifelike, so like the waves of being. A lifetime favourite no doubt
@mikeexits
3 ай бұрын
Have you heard Deliverance by Culprate? If you love this, you'd fall in love with that album. It's insane.
good shit!
@danibot3000
2 жыл бұрын
bruh
@watsoncastelino3205
2 жыл бұрын
Bruh!
the world needs a "making of" of these videos. just superb!
@danielkeem8341
2 жыл бұрын
The name of the technique is called VQGAN + CLIP
Brilliant! Something between the dream language of James Joyce, the work of Salvatore Dali and the Music of Richard D. James ... I LOVE IT!
@wicksteedworks6707
2 жыл бұрын
Let's throw Virginia Woolf in there too :)
Applause... I stand up... and just clap. Piece of art
This video has defined a new era visually, the use of AI and what it creates in here goes beyond what a man can do by itself, the AI was feed with a library with a ton of images serving as a color palette ( if I’m not mistaken) so in a way it’s the indirect work of thousands or maybe millions of people that took pictures that later became some a piece of a puzzle inside a machines dream.
@ZMemme
2 жыл бұрын
It says in the description that it was fed writings from Ludwig Wittgenstein
@Noiretranquility
2 жыл бұрын
@@ZMemme yes, it’s made with G.A.N.s , you can input text, but the AI grabs and blends pixels that come from a collection of images that has previously learned to identify, so it does use images , is just the input to define the graphics was made on text, GANs can be “feed” or input with different approaches, text is one of them
This feels like the pinnacle of humanity. A cultural high water mark. Outstanding
Well done. This is so kickass. (Not that you need anyone to say this!) My brother, Victor Loughlin, is a Wittgensteinian philosopher of mind/enactivist. I have sent this onto him and waiting to hear his response/reaction!
@chiaragaldiolo1720
2 жыл бұрын
Pls share it.
@anthonyfaulkner6829
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, please do! :)
@PappyMandarine
2 жыл бұрын
Expecting to see your brother's reaction! Tell us about it mate
@mayabartolabac
2 жыл бұрын
what's your brother's reaction to the video?
For 2 years now - I've been continually thinking...........now that so many talented people have been stuck indoors (instead of touring, exhibiting, etc.) there is going to be a massive wave of powerful and unprecedented new artistic offerings, which emerge from the 'quarantine and self isolation'. Not sure if any of that is a factor here, but it crossed my mind.......
@conceptflow
2 жыл бұрын
Yes you are definitely right. Many people leveled up during that time.
@willswitchcraft
2 жыл бұрын
I guess there are loads of us with 'less distractions' from our creative pursuits...to put it simply.....
This is the best use of GANs I have seen yet. Incredible control (or atleast the artist made it seem that way).
@billB101
2 жыл бұрын
3D Gan, be interesting to see how this is actually being done.
These types of videos are always very unsettling for me but I can't stop watching them.
@siinxx7656
2 жыл бұрын
I feel ya
Inexpressibly big. Growing inside me beyond the limits of senses.
I'm not one to write KZread comments, but I just feel moved to write here... I've followed Max for a couple of years and I listen to a LOT of music. But this is just INCREDIBLE. After this, I think I can confidently say Max Cooper is the greatest visual or musical artist I've ever experienced. The incredibly complex, meticulously crafted soundscapes paired with rich, mind-bending visuals make my brain feel like its touching a plane that I didn't know existed. I'm snatched away from the everyday into a different world for a few minutes. A hypnotic, beautiful convergence of art, science and what it means to be human. Cannot express in words how grateful I am for these releases from Max, and I'm blown away that Max has somehow raised his bar again to a new level with these first two releases of Unspoken Words. Max, I am sincerely grateful
@juStb4u
2 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful thing. Have you had a chance to see him fully live and immersive for an AV show?
@jessecdh
2 жыл бұрын
@@juStb4u Can't say I have. Have you? It's absolutely on my bucket list ^_^
@juStb4u
2 жыл бұрын
@@jessecdh Yes indeed, several times fortunately, my last was in Athens in dec '19 for his Yearning for the Infinite show. Before that, a few times at ADE in Amsterdam (2 AV shows) and back in 2016 in Montreal but that was only a dj set - still amazing. So ya, big fan 😇
I'm very addicted to this song. so good
This is just perfect in every way possible
Max your videos are the only ones I watch on the day they are posted
audio visual stimulation at its finest.
Many years ago, I never guessed I’d see the day that we could technologically synthesise an epic shroom trip. It’s like we’re looking inside the self organising cellular genesis of the creation of our soon to be AI god. Like abstract memories preceding some form of future events. It’s so utterly mind blowing what’s about to happen when you think hard enough about extrapolation of current technological progression.
The imagery is so disorientating and yet familiar, like a dream that your lucid mind tries to interpret in real-time but it just keeps shifting every time you almost get a grasp on it. Maybe dreams are just our brain's interpretation and visualization of the quantum uncertainty principle, a desperate attempt to recognize patterns in the sub-atomic chaos that envelopes us and somehow generates a field of consciousness that we experience as sentience. Language is codifying the randomness, harnessing and quantifying it, labeling it and separating it into categories so we can try to understand it and at least have some sign posts to guide us through existence. Watching this piece is what I imagine being a newborn is like, inundated with confusing sensory data that our undeveloped minds cannot yet decipher. But there is just enough awareness, a vestigial preset built into our DNA via millions of years of evolution, to allow us to slowly make sense of the world around us.
Amazing deep concept as usual Max and a great tune.... would love to discus ideas, theories and communicating without words, what a subject. Can't wait to hear this on the dance floor too!
全ての出来事はこの様にシームレスに関係しあい、溶け合って変化し続けているイメージに過ぎないということですかね。
What a masterpiece, the sound and visuals together just create this euphoric but at the same time eerie feeling.
The video and the music are so perfect together. Great work.
Both an audio and visual masterpiece - by Grace I was mesmerised! Checking this album out for sure AND Mr Cooper.
That was my favourite experience of my week.
Harmonious dissonances in perfect balances ... the contemporary avant-garde of electronic music .... you can paint every visual image of every single sound ... until you make it alive ... it is tangible before your eyes in every nuance .. your music pure art ... thanks Max Cooper 🎵
OMG. How can this piece of perfection be on the internet for over a year now with only so many views. This is true masterpiece should be seen in museums all over the world. This is so incredibly good!!
I love everything about this. From the concept to the music to the visuals, it's just so well done and interesting.
Listening/Watching this on mushrooms hits different. Thank you for this masterpiece
the most realistic animated d.m.t.tripp i ve ever seen!
this is overwhelming in a great way
Always so tough to put into words the feelings that erupt from watching & listening to such an abundance of stimuli. Max... and all your partners in crime... you continue to outdo yourselves and thankfully so, for our great benefit 🙏🏻
Damit Max you did it again! That new direction in term of sound design/sonic aesthetic fits your usual sound like a charm and only makes your songs more diverse and enjoyable. Thank you and I only wish working on these pieces makes you happy :)
what?! just absolutely blown away by this!
Max, you are the single most nerdy artist in the electronic scene, making visuals with Wittgeinstein quotes, WOW, I know you background on science but this takes it to a whole other level. Love it.
Absolutely gorgeous thank you
Gooooood looooooooord... Goosebumps from head to toe! What is the internet version of a standing ovation?
Merci les gars, une crèativité de haute frèquence, one love!💓, on est ensemble🙏
Meu sonho: ir a um show seu e ver todos esses clipes incríveis passando em uma tela bem grande!
This video is so stunningly beautiful and digs right into the deepest part of your senses. It's like what you'd expect Robert Breer to be making if he were still alive. It's magnificent.
Your music always inspire my heart and my soul. Thank you.
Wow, what an amazing work! Very impressive. Loved every frame of it! There is so much to see and hear, every tiny detail adds to the experience. Beautiful!
Unbelievable - art at its best - fast and at a razorsharp edge ... great stuff! Just stumbled across Max' works through his stunning penrose tiling video!
Wooooooow Unreal art!! so inspiring!!! 😲
Max cooper you have bought so much happiness to my life. Thank you
amazing! Music and Video Synergy! love it!!
This is unreal. Abstract expressionism and surrealism in real time.
Definitely one of the best music video’s I saw in a while! You should be proud of the end result!
This video is amazing, and the concept is incredible. And of course, the music is fantastic. What a treat
This is amazing 🤯awesome video!
Music and video are both mind bending, you never disappoint.
Looks so lovely trippy and the music compliments it unspeakable well
This is.... NEXT LEVEL. This is the future of music videos. I am confident in that. It will start a new genre of abstract music videos that "dance" to the music. It will be unspeakably spectacular and other-worldly. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART POSSIBILITY SPACE! I aspire to one day contribute to this specific medium as well. Cheers.
Just incredible!.!
This is overwhelmingly incredible in its own stunning brilliance
This is absolutely brilliant!!! Epic composition, brilliant sound design, and trippy as heck!
Unbelievable...this, what you doing is art. Every Single track, are visual masterpieces. To watch how wide your Imagination is. the way you choose so many diffrent Tools, to express. Thats wonderfull. Keep on going. All your teammates are involved and did a great job. cutter, camera, Sound, Set up, script, Sketches, every Single hour is compressed on maybe 5 minutes. So you have to be tough to catch us. Perfect, every time perfect
Awesome song, amazing video. So much to love here.
This is probably as close as to an LSD experience you can get without taking any. It's truly uncanny. When you're tripping. Everything is Everything and is connected.
My man, this is the stuff of beauty
Words cannot describe this. I'm just so amazed.
Absolutely brilliant
That graphic part and this Art style are really mind blowing.
Beautiful !
I feel some form of strong energy, which I can not explain. Such an exciting piece...
It has this dystopian feel of “ the future sound of London “ to it, great conversions between the realism and the abstraction of that!
This was amazing. This blew my mind.
These 5 minutes felt like 10. Absolutely incredible!
MIND BLOWING
Thank you so very much for the Visual & Auditory Re-Up !
This experience is beyond describing, words just fall short!
BRAVO!!! 👏👏👏
Fantastically excellent as always!!!
Amazing, I feel like I get introduced into art all over again after watching that masterpiece!
The distance between the past, present, & future is now. Excellent site vector cartography of the liminal space beyond the event horizon by Monsieur Xander. Diego Riverra, Osha Neumann, Salvador Dali ... Pink Floyd representative style ... I couldn't find the Yellow Submarine, but I looked. Dammit! Where's Ringo? Castanedian psychedelics. I didn't know if I should expect Mario Savio, Dan Rather, Edward Said, or maybe someone like Joseph Campbell to show up and begin seminar. I just thought I should mention that I have viewed this sober, if for coffee.
This is nothing less than amazing. Kudos! (ETA And thank you!)
INCREDIBLE!
All the visuals on the vid are crazy
Adequately made, appreciate the work, thumbs up and hope to see more of this in the future
Moving art is good for the soul
Wouhaou Crazy Graphics ! Really ground braking !
Always blown away by your content
Thirteen years of posts then suddenly it breaks into top of class this is next level
Excellent work!
Stunning!!!!
This is insane!!!! Amazing and unique! BRAVO!
That is a trip
Masterpiece 🖤
Amazing!
amazing! please keep them coming!