Max Cooper - Waves (official video by Kevin McGloughlin)
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This video is part of the Emergence audio/visual project, where I explored the idea of natural laws and their creation of the world around us. The early chapters of the story focus on the fundamentals of natural laws themselves, the basic principles of nature which needed to be in place before the physical universe could come into being.
Luckily for me, working on an AV project, these basic building blocks of nature tended to yield beautiful results visually - symmetries, the distribution of the primes, dimensionality and hyper-dimensional forms, and here, waves. Perhaps this is because we have some subconscious appreciation for their importance, or maybe it’s just through social conditioning and the fact that they are usually common forms because of their irreducibility.
The idea seemed like a simple one visually, so I wanted to create a simple classic synth approach musically, and find a strong retro aesthetic visually to match. Tom Hodge added some Fender Rhodes noodling for extra retro feel, and Kevin McGloughlin nailed the visual approach with a great technique for presenting waves as the product of strong moving lines in a simple colour scheme. Some of the video work reminds me of 60’s or 70’s modernist imagery, which fit right in musically.
I chose the concept of waves for part of the Emergence story, because they are a very important idea in much of our understanding of the world around us, and within us. They form the basis of light and wireless communications, and our source of energy from the sun which creates almost all plant and animal life. Our best understanding of the fundamental nature of reality at the smallest scales is purely waves, apparently. And even the process of neuronal action that produces our awareness relies on waves of charge flow created by forces which are supposedly themselves mediated by waves - the virtual photon, a massless wave (i.e. light), being the force carrier of the electromagnetic charge which shunts particles around inside your neurones to make you think. And then there’s the more familiar waves that can dump you under and make you swallow some rank sea water.
In addition to all of that, waves are also the basis of music - waves in the air, that is, sound, structured with symmetries. Much the same as with thinking about symmetry for that chapter of the Emergence story, it turns out that music shares a lot in common with our visual aesthetic preferences, and both are deeply rooted in principles of nature illuminated by science.
There are different ways in which waves can operate, and what constitutes a wave at all, with or without a medium for example. But they all seem to involve energy transfer without needing the transfer of physical mass - like you can see in the video, the mass (each particle, or a charge) moves up and down on a single axis, and the wave, and energy, is propagated through the medium by these point oscillations.
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It's like the most intricate loading screen.
@travisdicks3773
4 жыл бұрын
I was literally just about to say that
@rubenmendezhoms3488
4 жыл бұрын
Just as intricate as the music itself.
@johnzornow1107
4 жыл бұрын
how about pc screen saver with the cooper music
@King-balloon
3 жыл бұрын
Who needs what on the other end of that loading screen when you have this
Kevin must've done a LOT of math to make this animation. Props.
@MarinusMakesStuff
4 жыл бұрын
It's honestly not that complicated work! (these animations are mostly common techniques using transformations, sine and cosine, 3D rotated planes etc). But very time consuming above all. And I think coming up with the ideas probably took way more time in this case, the originality and creativity is stunning! :)
@teodumsas4906
4 жыл бұрын
experimental
@bochen1079
4 жыл бұрын
Marinus Iamverysmart
@bochen1079
4 жыл бұрын
tap water k lol
@positivelynegative5144
4 жыл бұрын
tap water damn what’s with the salt
I'm honored
I have never found so much perfection in music together with visuals
You know it when you feel it. This is love.
@Fractalesque
2 жыл бұрын
Your comment put a lot in context for me: this weird and wonderful feeling of sweet euphoria I feel every time I discover that few and far between song that gets played endlessly on repeat. You just might be right. Only you can know when you feel it, if you're lucky enough to feel it. This track is a sonic representation of that feeling that can only make sense to you and you alone. This really is love. Thank you for sharing your sentiment. I see clearer now.
@memati7199
Жыл бұрын
@@Fractalesque you described the indescribable 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
hi youtube, this is the stuff i want thanks
These guys just raised the ceiling a mighty tad chunk on what we call 'GENIUS'
Love the music and the visual part is just mesmerizing
Just pure awesomeness.
the compression algorithm did not like this at all
@dominicjose3660
4 жыл бұрын
[Angry Compression Algorithm Noises]
Well this is going on my maximum focus playlist
one of the best music videos i've ever seen , thanks
Teaching us to see and hear multidimensionally one video at a time 😁
@mikeexits
2 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Aleph 2? I find that during the strobing part, if I let my focus relax and look "past" the screen and find a sweet spot, there's an added depth that I didn't quite get from focusing on the screen as a flat plane. This was with a 15.6"" computer monitor at about 2ish feet, not sure if it would work on a phone or TV.
@shamanic_nostalgia
2 жыл бұрын
its seriously so encouraging to see art like this happening, and to think that this could be just the earliest stages of what i'll call transcendental art
This is pure marvelousness 🤩 Thank you ❤
Magnificent works! This is beyond creation. Good job! 👍
uuuuuufffff.....!!! No words. Thanks for all.
The Shinning
Absolutely phenomenal. Thanks for creating what is so aesthetically pleasing in not only sound but also visual. It is almost like walking into a perfect exhibition online. Cheers.
In my not particularly humble opinion, The McLaughlin Brothers should have a permanent room devoted to their work at the Louvre, alongside the other masters of art.
@mikeexits
2 жыл бұрын
Danny Perez too, I think.
You deserve to be famous. Great piece
@riccardobasili5421
3 жыл бұрын
He is for us! 💎
modern day IDM .. Love it!
OH MY GOSH!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOUND IT!!!!!
This is awesome. Looking so forward to see you in Norway!
I feel like I should have paid for that art, so complexe, and so much work in every music video you did ! Great Job !
This tickles my eyes.
Excellent work Max!
hey Max, I described this video as "eyecandy of triangles".
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? This is what it looks like.
Wow, the visual rendering here ... Amazing. Nice work and curatorial acumen, Max! :-)
yeahhhhhh
This piece should be studied by music students cause what the heck this is so mild but there's always a party going on in the head !!!! Max Cooper you're one of the best artists I stumbled upon in 2023 🤍♥️
Perfect as always Max. Blessing from France
I adore a description 💖
Is there a single thing related to video Kevin McGloughlin can't achieve? His works don't amaze me only because of the amazing visuals but also by how broad his skillset is, not limited to just one branch of videography
@tennicktenstyl
4 жыл бұрын
Apparently he can't win with youtube in the compression war. Praise Vimeo.
Amazing Max, well done
This is brilliant.
Musique magnifique! Visuel splendide! Magique
C'est du lourd ça ! Chapeau l'artiste ! Un kiff du début à la fin, bravo !🤩🤟
You are amazing!!
I have lost my head.. totally!!!!!!
Amazing!
candy for the eyes! love it
Thankyou for removing advertisements,Max.
this project is awesome
calming
Están en otro nivel!!!
ahh me eardrums & eyeballs - excellent work MaX C & Kevin McG
superb
you sir, are now my new favourite channel on youtube
Mesmerizing works.
bravo!
What a cool vid!
Straight up goddamn
Pezzo straordinario semplicemente geniale ti trasporta ovunque tu voglia, fantastic!
2:23 ambience melody reminding me of Ametsub's track "Solitude".
how did I just find out about this
Max Cooper??
wow thank you friend!
SMOOTH AF
beautiful music/video :D
really cool ! gorgeous...💖
Wow!
Very nice
I’m surprised my phone is still working after watching this
Tuneeeeee of maximum balls..a producer and remixer top of there game...😉
Dear Max, you are like a Tesla artist creator with visuals :) Thank you very much for such an experience! Best wishes and love ❤️🌏
strong work
That's a good one for sure
Great track. And I can't fathom how someone could come up with so many different shapes and forms and combinations.
@CleverMetaphor
4 жыл бұрын
I bet you could fathom it, if you spent enough time... it is amazing though
@cameroncoy9042
4 жыл бұрын
Exploration and experimentation
BOSS
Incredible★
une découverte de la semaine pour moi. merci Arte, (le journal du 21 janvier)
killer tune :O)
Very interesting geometry...
NICE
I'm doing a dance to this track!
this is bloody crazy
woah
Coolest screensaver ever
Merci
Not bad,not bad!
Nice
Either James Grant or Jody Wisternoff introduced me to this. Great dudes.
trippy
@tidycaveapp3847
6 жыл бұрын
i love your username
Essência da vela instrumentação musical em comunhão perfeita com ilustração visual.obrigado e uma boa noite.
Это просто шедевр!
Can you tell us more about how the visuals were generated? After Effects or another visualizer software/patch?
❤️
One💗
This video reminds me of an old mtv show called Amp.
I dreamed I was lost inside a *1 22 polytope.*
This is interesting to hear from Max Cooper. Definitely not his normal style of production
Love this video, wonder what software was used to create it?
I clapped my chest while listening to this
holy
"How to surprise with something that cannot surprise"
I wanna sleep in a bed made out of this music
This honestly looks like a Sprint advertisement
Wow