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05:15

Kontravoid - Reckoning

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06:50

Max Cooper - Swapped

Max Cooper: There is a particular phase of my live audio-visual show where the narrative descends into the scourge of humanity on the planet, and where some techno is called for. For this chapter I was interested in capturing some of the intensity of living amongst urban development and the beauty that goes along with the incessant change and barrage of ideas from all sides. Dimitri originally made an abstracted version of this system as part of one of our creative challenges on the mesh discord, and we chatted about how to develop it to show the human story - rampant destruction, homes, cultures and ideas rapidly repurposed or wiped out to make way for the next thing, on repeat. I tried to be as direct as possible musically, and didn't add too much complexity, with just one techno scripture blaspheme, swapping the kicks and snares position so that it has the effect of dropping early as a little touch of spice on what is otherwise a straightforward club bang with a subtle addition of a binaural trip to the dentist - recordings of drilling and suction inside the mouth to complement the synth style. Dimitri Thouzery: Cities, the vibrant living places of the majority of humanity, are in a constant state of transformation. In the era of liberalization, gentrification, expansionist urbanism, and the dream of smart cities, urban landscapes are evolving rapidly. The video aims to capture the dynamic nature of these changes using a generative and audio-reactive system. Created in TouchDesigner, the system utilizes moving cubes and a differential feedback system to depict the patterns of the city. Different sounds from the tracks trigger variations in the feedback loop, creating diverse patterns. Additionally, a generative grid of buildings expands as the track progress, accompanied by animated individuals moving within the city. Designing such a generative system poses the challenge of unpredictable outcomes at each iteration. While there are ways to control noise parameters for some stability, allowing the system to be somewhat out of control adds a sense of organic evolution to the city. With infinite possibilities, even though a choice has to be made for a music clip, I like to think of it as just one of the many potential outcomes.

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05:38

NTO - Zig Zag

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05:44

NTO & Monolink - Beyond Control

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04:02

D3U5E - FREE MARS

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02:09

Gaudier feat. Shari Nicola - Amount Remix

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05:13

Bob Moses - Enough to Believe (Jamie Jones Remix)

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06:23

KAS:ST - VTOPIA

Starring Jerhemy Boyer and Clara Symchowicz

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05:04

Max Cooper - Spike (Official video by Yoshi Sodeoka)

Max Cooper: I had a lot of fun with polyrhythms and cheeky synth noises with this one after a first play with the new Summit synth from Novation. I tried to carry that playful vibe through the track and keep it stripped back to let all the little jams and spatialised wurbles have their own place in the mix, only finally descending fully into the pads and chords late on. It was nice to have a more stripped mix than usual to let the little granular modulations and glitches each have their own space and clean reverb tails. There isn't any conceptual link between the music itself and the Earth theme of the EP for this track, all I did was chat to the visual artist Yoshi Sodeoka about the themes of earth-bound growth processes which had gone into the EP as a whole, and he tied many sounds of the music to animated expansion processes and abstracted microbiological form in order to tie everything together. Sometimes it's nice to rely on the visual artist to build the conceptual link when I just want to experiment with weird noises with a new synth. Yoshi Sodeoka: Max invited me into this project during COVID lockdown in NYC, when illustrations of viral forms were unavoidable - they terrified me then, and they terrify me now. I wondered how I might transform my shaky feelings into something positive and hopeful. Lately I've been making a lot of audio-reactive generative works using a technique based on reaction diffusion. I realized that the pulsing rhythmic structure of "Spike" makes it a perfect audio track to synchronize with a visual improvisation on the impulse and evolution of imaginary microorganisms. The visuals grew from a few seeds of graphic and audio information that was animated, then mutated by automatic video feedback. Feedback generates more feedback, it becomes self-organizing, and it continues to generate forever unless it is instructed to stop. Like evolutionary processes in nature, making the visuals this way is often unpredictable and beyond control. This work is not a metaphor for Earth's processes, nor is it meant as an illustration of Max's music. I'd like to think of it as a way to confront the contagion and get free of lockdown, a lively voyage into a colorful inner terrain of image and sound.

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08:52

Max Cooper - Lockdown AV Session

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05:12

Morphology - Europa

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53:26

Phoenix: Mathame - "Music from the ashes"

Surrounded by the mesmerizing landscape of the "Valley of the Ashes", Phoenix invites Mathame, the mind behind this project, to perform on their custom made sound system.

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