Max Cooper - Palestrina Gabriel (Official video by Uisato)
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Official music video ‘Palestrina Gabriel’ created for Max Cooper’s immersive live show, ‘Seme’, commissioned by Salzburg Easter Festival (on 28 March 2024, also performing at the Barbican London on 4+5 April). Max’s collaboration with Uisato recreates human forms and movements seen in Italian religious and Renaissance art to amplify Max’s reworking of Palestrina’s ‘Missa Gabriel Archangelus’.
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Max Cooper:
I received a live show commission from Salzburg Easter Festival to create music and visuals based on historic Italian ideas, so the challenge arose of how to present a lot of what exists only as stills and concepts, as video sequences.
In addition to audio-visualisations of Cardano Circles, the Fibonacci Sequence (see the collab with Yoshi Sodeoka on my channel) and a project with photographs, I started chatting to Uisato because I wanted to recreate the sorts of human forms and movements that could be linked to historic Italian religious and Renaissance art.
He worked with China Labaig to map dance to historic aesthetics, set to my own electronic interpretation of a piece of Italian music from roughly the same period - Palestrina’s ‘Missa Gabriel Archangelus’.
I started the process with the original score, which had been made as church music for a choir. Not my usual source for reworking but there was some magic in there to work with. I pulled out specific sections and modulated some to make it fit into my harmonic world, but kept most of what structure was there in the original. Tom Hodge the pianist worked with the singer Kim Sheehan to develop a piano response to the Palestrina motif, and I responded to that in turn with synths, and then with the singer Sarah Aristidou. The whole piece was a sort of back and forth conversation between different musicians to build layers like a choir in time rather than in space.
The final process was working with filmmaker and artist Jon Bilbrough (Wilderthorn), to edit Uisato and China’s work into sequence. The idea is to present a new interpretation of the beauty and mystery that went into so many historic creative masterpieces. We’ve all seen them before, but I wanted to bring them to life as imagined metaphysical beings, and capture some of the magic which was imbued in them at the time of their creation.
I hope you can feel what I mean in there.
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Uisato:
Mixing the study of multiple paintings, sculptures, and iconic works of the Italian Renaissance era, with state-of-the-art IA tools and China’s profoundly emotive live performances, gave this avant-garde audiovisual piece as a result: gestures, emotions, movements, expressions, costumes, lighting…
We tried to study them as much as possible in order to properly capture Renaissance’s essence, taking into account what my custom IA models “read” from them. It was an intense, magical, and meaningful journey, with which China and I are deeply grateful for.
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CREDITS
Concept/Composition/Production:
Max Cooper / maxcoopermax / / maxcoopermax
Video: Uisato / uisato_ / @uisato_
Dancer: China Labaig / chinalabaig
Editing: Jon Bilbrough / wilderthornmusic / @wilderthorn
Composition/Piano: Tom Hodge / tomhodgetom
Synths: Niels Orens / nielsorens
Vocals: Sarah Aristidou / sarah_aristidou
Vocals: Kim Sheehan / kimi_sheehan
Additional Mixing: Aneek Thapar
Mastering: Chris McCormack
Music: ‘Palestrina Gabriel’ - Max Cooper featuring Sarah Aristidou, Kim Sheehan, Tom Hodge, Niels Orens
℗ 2024 Mesh © 2024 Faber Music Publishing Limited
Mastered by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering
Record label: Mesh meshmeshmesh.net + / meshmeshmesh_
Management: The Wild Seeds www.thewildseeds.com + / the_wild_seeds
All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper and Mesh - no use without permission.
Пікірлер: 102
I was out walking the dog at night when I first heard this track. Moon, stars, stunning music. One of those endorphin rush moments that I wish we could bottle. The video really does the song justice too. Bravo and grazie Max and Uisato.
I keep coming back to this piece as it's profoundly moving. The music, the vocalisations, the space / openness in between & yet a very fulfilling sonic density... And of course the visuals are superb, highly thought provoking, and very well matched to the audio (or perhaps that happened the other way around, I truly don't know). This piece calms & soothes me, and yet it inspires at the same time to tap into my own creative capabilities, such as they are... 🙏
The Renaissance Mystique is back. Enjoy this celestial images. Blow your mind with Max and Uisato.
Absolutely stunning combination of music and visuals!! Yet another display of uisato's talent
This music touces the Truth my soul knows. Thank you❤
Very artsy, always cool. I love the Cooper-creations. Kudos to the whole team. ♥♥♥
The Magic is real 🔥
This hit hard in a transcendental emotional kind of way. Truly another masterpiece Max. I’m so grateful for your artistry. What a time to be alive…
Truly magnificent in the way it brinngs renaissance music to the 21st century. One of my all time favorites from Max Cooper :^)
Absolutely stunning.
Take my hand
Love it! Uisato's visuals are beautiful ❤😍
The visuals are stunning , congrats max and uisato !
Beautifull music ..
This is probably one of the greatest pieces of art that have ever been created! The music itself, the visuals and the transitions are from another world. I have been playing this forever now! Kudos Max Cooper
This was WONDERFUL!! Thank you.
Wooow you can notice the dedication behind this piece
Sounds beautiful, one more side of Max's music
Wonderful job Uisato !!
Stunning.
Congratulations.... What a beautiful work.... Belíssimo.
You know its good when you put it on loop and use it as the soundtrack of your life.
The Master Piece
Oh my god, I love it so much! ✌️❤️🌎⚖️🙏♾️
Max, Sound and Vision on a whole new level! Thank you...!
Wow, thats amazing, the music is a Journey, but those visuals.... omg props to uisato! One love
Alucinante
Great job Uisato, a masterpiece
Max Cooper transcendence in music remembers me Bach and Beethoven. Simply unexplainable.
Excellent Job🎉
Amazing
this is fantastic!
Brilliant music.
Exquisite....
NO WORDS
Powerful
wow
Excelente work, thrilling
well done! inspired!
Nice job!! ❤
beautiful
Magnifique !
Incroyable, bravo.
Bellísimo ❤
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Un viaje de ida
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Sorry, had to give ALL comments a like 👍🏼. Feels better after that.
Thats point of the state
That constant sub bassline is something else...
Can this be the theme for your next album, I've been researching our history, now I understand why Christianity is so popular.
Wonderful music and video!
This is a most intelligent way to use AI... very beautiful.
Excelent work ❤
You should do movie score.
This video looks like ancient Roman tai chi
Very mesmerizing ❤❤
ART👏
no entiendo una goma pero te apoyo hermano pd : buen bulterrier
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Except even if i stay I’ll never get to finish what I started because it chose to leave
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Aw Max, you're better than AI
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I love Max Cooper's music but the AI visuals are disturbing. Make me want to disconnect. Is that the point?
@EcoMythos
4 ай бұрын
Feel free.
Jesus…
Love reading the comments of the butthurt 'AI bad' crowd.
What does this actually mean to you? How do you justify the Divine?
@Amoakable
4 ай бұрын
Nature behind your closed eyelids there's a " universe " but much different from crhistianity nonsense only beautiful geometrical colorful landscapes and no Jesus in 26 years of divine psychedelic experiences is much much more divine than a stupid story from a book from a guy who never existed, this is fantasy psychedelic are really
@CooperNeff
Ай бұрын
I would love an answer from Max on this as well! Are there words to describe this? Or is this video/music meant to describe the ineffable - something words will never touch.
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I love AI but in this context its just too much. We need a more stable quality middle ground please. Your music deserves this.
@CooperNeff
3 ай бұрын
I think this is actually the perfect context for it. It's showing very clearly that our universe/reality has simulation-like aspects to it and yet still feels SO REAL - this video does a beautiful job of depicting this by constantly flowing back and forth from reality to AI art and back to reality - yet does so almost completely seamlessly. It's really astonishingly beautiful.
@paraphax
3 ай бұрын
@@CooperNeff I think I wrote my comment wrong actually, I agree on some points. By no means do I hate on AI, I just think these visuals will look rubbish very soon in comparison to AIs like sora now. Of course one could argue that this music video here just appreciates the stage where AI is at now and I wouldn't be able to deny that.
Cool, more AI garbage
Max it's me - your #1 fan. Awesome visuals. I'm not loving the audio. Zzzzzz.
the music is nice but the AI video is just disgusting.
Wow, you used to work with actually talented artists and appreciated scientific/mathematic accuracy in the past. So it's baffling to see a bunch of amorphous multitude-of-fingers AI slop output from you. No, misspelling it as IA in the description doesn't help and doesn't fool anyone. Or maybe that stands for 'Idiotic Application'? In which case it's accurate.
@_supersolar
4 ай бұрын
i regret having told my partner to check out his videos a few weeks ago. didn't know it was machine-generated botshit now.
Sorry Max but these AI zoom videos are already tiresome. They feel soulless. The autotune of visuals.
@ErichNolanBertussi
4 ай бұрын
That's not what this is It's a shame you didn't read to find out about the art before making a statement like that publicly
@wotsgreen
4 ай бұрын
It obviously is an AI generated video. The description says nothing about how the video was made, it talks about the audio only. @@ErichNolanBertussi
@ErichNolanBertussi
4 ай бұрын
@@wotsgreen pat yourself on the back for doing a deep dive on the artist and what was used and only reading an email before you open your mouth publicly.
@xtaltia
4 ай бұрын
@@ErichNolanBertussi your insecurities are on full display hun.... publicly.
@bryangrunauer
4 ай бұрын
@@ErichNolanBertussi He built a model, so what? It still gives the visual feel of the same AI art we are now familiar with, be it his own, Sora, Runway or anything else.
AI “art” sucks so much. Creepy and inhuman. Music seems also AI-contaminated.
cool work! i wanna see your colobaration with Vadim Epstein , think he is top in theme of AI\ML visuals
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