Max Cooper - Symphony in Acid (Official video by Ksawery Komputery)
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MAX COOPER:
This video is from my 'Unspoken Words' project, where I tried to express things with music and visual art which I could not put into words. I turned to the writing of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who tackled this issue of the problems with words and their inability to capture every aspect of our lives. It approaches issues of human expression and the links between our symbolism and existence, but does so in an incomprehensibly dense way, for me at least, which was ripe for presenting as art rather than a technical reading challenge. It's full of feeling and suggestion that we've played with here.
The name, Symphony in Acid, references the combination of orchestral-like synths with 303-like synthesis of acid house fame. I was trying to merge some disparate ideas in the context of a highly dense and complex, but gridded and rigorous structure, one reminiscent of the Wittgenstein text.
Ksawery did an amazing and painstaking job mapping every sound to text presentations & manipulations following the same principles. Each musical, visual and methodological unit is simple, but in concert the result is this complex information onslaught. I love the effect of trying to take in the meaning and messages of the project, particularly when presented on a big screen and sound system in live context. If you give yourself to it, it's a really intense experience with all the text meanings triggering a tapestry of mental responses. I apologise to non-English speakers though, I'd love to make multi-language translations of the project as well.
Ksawery has also created a live rendering website version of the project at symphonyinacid.net where you can interact with the system and even have your own face rendered in Wittgenstein's words. If you would like to collaborate with us to create digital art with your own unspoken words you can submit those at unspokenwords.net/
► Provide your own Unspoken Words: www.unspokenwords.net
The final thing to note is that we added a couple of words at the start. Wittgenstein's statement that "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" is one that I seek to refute with Unspoken Words.
KSAWERY KOMPUTERY:
Max suggested using discourses by German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein for the "Symphony in Acid" video right from the start. Wittgenstein’s subjects & conclusions serve as excellent extenders to the fundamentals of the "Unspoken Words" album. Especially in "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (1921), he explores in depth the concept of limits of language. Wittgenstein investigates various aspects of language, from the atomic point of view (form) to the wide picture (content). The thinker famously stated: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." I tried to challenge that notion here in the field of visual art.
I build most of my works with code. In this case, I chose a coding environment suitable for rendering typography - an element central to this project. Running code as a website, through a modern internet browser, became the perfect solution. I find the gap between hypertext & 100-year-old paper both significant & inspiring. With my former experience in commercial web development, it was fun & refreshing to use my tools from back then for this new approach.
The dense soundtrack triggered my code in powerful ways. As I listen to it now, I can almost hear atoms interacting, gravitating towards each other to form an object, & then - a whole scenery. Such a wide perspective fuels the imagination & matches the logical-philosophical soul within Wittgenstein’s papers. The ever-evolving atmosphere also helps to create new systems, new scenes. The video starts with just a few letters, that build a word, then a sentence, & finally - whole blocks of text. Having said that, the meaning remains between the lines. The letters can’t exist solely for their form. Eventually, they have to carry information.
We released the website simultaneously with the video as an integral part of the project. The final video shows a single recording of the website being browsed. For the nerds out there, interested in the programming aspect, you can easily access the source code. For a more immersive & playful experience, I added a few interactive options to play with visuals using your mouse & keyboard: www.symphonyinacid.net
CREDITS
Video: Ksawery Komputery
Music: Max Cooper
Label: Mesh
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Is there an Oscar award for Best Animated Type Design? 😮
best animated web design!!... the site exists. It's complete madness, it does not enter into my understanding.
When you add a picture in your word document
This is what Word looks like at 2:00 am when finishing an essay
Or 4am having seen max for the n’th time 😊
This is the best audiovisual experience I have had since a looooonngg time. Thank god Max Cooper exists.
Max Cooper - triggering seizure since 2009! But seriously these videos are complete experiences that resemble nothing else. It's a very powerful use of technology, so enjoyable and refreshing!
This track is so underrated in my opinion. The way this was synthesized is so stunning, so beautiful both for the music video and the music itself and the way that they synchronize (wow!). It feels so thoughtful, contemplative even to me, and while it's a highly danceable track I also heard melancholy textures within it that make it emotional. This is a crazy great track to abstractly celebrate to.
Definitely a trip.
I like the music.
Another insane visual delight - incredible job by Ksawery
Words as animated as music. Letters can dance too!
The best moving typography film I ever seen! A classic. So inspiring!
An emotional gut punch, words fail me, but they didn't fail the video!
Awesome! Saving this one for later when I don't have a migraine
Five and a half minutes of pure creativeness.
Insanely intelligent, patient and clean piece of art. Goosebumps, thanks you so so much
Had to pause this many times to read some of the wonderful passages encased within. Well worth it.
amazing, stunning project, love it
Actually more interesting and entertaining than most of music videos 🔥 So unique!
Inspiring to creative coders like me everywhere. Thank you to Max Cooper and Ksawery Komputery
💛
This is what I imagine being good at Excel feels like.
jajajaja
EMACS genius.
Poetic and inspiring. Thank you
Wonderful as usual ✌️❤️🌏⚖️🙏♾️
love this
Did saw this in Paris a few weeks ago, and among all other song, this one did really touch me.
My best concert so far, thanks for that Max and all of the people working with you on the graphic part !
It's always great when you two do something together!
Watching this live was so intense! Nice to be able to rewatch it again :)
Puts me in a trance everytime. So good
This could not be more perfect. What an amazing piece of art ❤
Very unique. I love it.
Pure Magic. Beautiful.🙂❤❤❤❤
Wow....perfect......
Wow! It is wonderful!
I Still don’t get how are you so! Brilliantly Creative! I love all your work and this one is no exception!!
love it love it love it
This is amazing, suprisingly emotional video. If word is an entity that could speak not only by information, but rather emotional.
The music of Max attracts obviously the best - often still unknown - talents in visual arts! Congenial videos are the result. Thanks to Max and all your fabulous visual artists.
And I think Ksawery would need to expand his client list.
Brilliant work 👌🏻 This is my fave tune on the album too ❤︎
Wow 😍😍❤️❤️
absolutely incredible experience
I finally just saw this in its entirety. My God. Thank you Max and team... It really hit me when I saw that I could create my own version. I really teared up... Just the beauty behind the idea...
Love it
after a lot of reading, re-reading, and thinking. i think i get it. whether i can use language to describe what it means is a different story haha. “There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about!” ― Terence McKenna
Sublime
Brilliant
Brilliant as usual… wow
There’s nobody like Mr. Cooper
Amazing visual experience
so far ahead of time I love it
So beautiful!
Masterpiece as always !
Fantastic!
craaaaazy !!!
🔥
absolutely ridiculously good
Awesome
This is so good.
Exceptional
this is crazy awesome
Insane website. The next lvl of the next lvls.
INCREDIBLE
Woo!! Awesome!!
Thank you this is the most touching moment I've experienced. Backspace the most useful space.
Incredible. My eyes are scrambled right now but it's still amazing hahaha
love the random bits that are mono for a split second
magnificent
art ist the true form of language
absolutely wild!
❤️
masterpiece
believe it or not i had about 2-3 dead pixels blocked on green and purple, and this video cured it lol thanks
Gawd this is so beautiful
I loved the concept ✌🏽
I danced with Wittgenstein on Friday in Rome thanks to you ❤️
bravo
SHHHHHHHHH Amaizng!!!!
incredible work as always from both max and the visual artist he works with. i am always blown away by the fresh new styles he brings to light in collaboration with his music. artistic expression at its finest.
Wonderful! You are one of my inspirations for my own music channel!
This is the Web3 everyone should want.
Incredible, awesome, words are too limited for this
Max Cooper X Wittgenstein 🤯🤯
Decent video and music of course
You are genius!!!
Nice song!
impressive
That was like watching and deciphering an A.I. very cool
🤯
I bow down, this is what proves that sometimes visuals can be more impressive than music. a tip for max cooper, if you only care about music, i.e. if you have no eyes, i recommend choosing a more boring music video. that was elucidating. peace
Ksawery has now successfully moved me twice now with their visuals to your music. If you would like a refutation of Witty from the literature, the best is probably the one he authored himself, inspired on the largest part by letters of correspondence between him and Frank Ramsey. It may however just be adequate to get a general sense of the post-positivist critiques of positivism.
Wait a sec... I love Witty, but I'm not sure what you're referring to. What correspondence w Ramsey? Can you give a reference? I'd be very interested.
holy shit thats great
5:05 is where you'll pause the vid if you want to read all of the text.
wow this is kinda good visual representation what feels/ happens inside my adhd brain, sometimes constantly when awake but especially when needs to focus or get things done then it intensifies. it sucks but still i like the music and video 👍👌
Exactly that was the first thought that came into my mind.
An experience
thanks the TB deserved this one xD
wow
web developers trying to sleep after debugging css all day:
I see someone else has tried to format a table in word.
CSS when you try to center align a div
If the limits of language really were the limits of the world, this video would be impossible.
牛逼啊~