Max Cooper - Repetition (Official Video By Kevin McGloughlin)
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Album mini-site with all explained: www.yearningfortheinfinite.net
I wanted to make something huge and intense for the new live show, so I went for a project attempting to visualise the infinite and its links to us in our everyday lives. For every chapter of the story I found a different technique to approach it, in this case, the simple idea of repetition. Apply it, and we have a form of infinity. This was also a natural fit for my music, where I had a nice excuse to push the repetitive boat out even more than usual. I kept it very stripped back to focus on the idea, with slow evolution and occasional variants to maintain some melodic engagement.
Visually, I was lucky to get to work with one of my favourite artists, Kevin McGlouglin, where we told the human side of the story, our endless pursuit of growth and "progress", our duplication of built form and expanding cities, looking to an unbounded future of urban sprawl. It was an audio-visualisation encompassing the project title "Yearning for the Infinite". But despite our society-endangering issues around human consumption and sustainability, it wasn't supposed to be a doom scenario. We tried that musically and it didn't seem to fit. There was a back and forth on the ideas and their musical and visual representation, and what worked was something that for me seems more focused on the worth of our endless striving than its possible role in our downfall.
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KEVIN MCGLOUGHLIN:
'Repetition' is an attempt to convey the importance of our endless endeavours toward human development and growth amidst a chaotic and disorienting landscape.
The struggle for a fruitful future is challenging with the distractions of everyday life alongside its ever-growing technological 'advancements'.
The hope is for humanity to strive through all of this in a meaningful and positive way.
Stream/download: ffm.to/yearningfortheinfinite
Music:
Max Cooper
maxcooper.net/
instagram.com/maxcoopermax
Directed:
Kevin McGloughlin
www.kevinmcgloughlin.com
instagram.com/kevinmcgloughlin_gram
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This should be played on loop in an art museum.
DEEEP
Meh
best not
@@eightytwo8282 why not there are worse pieces than this
@@AyaJuni lol u funny
Listening to this on a moving train while staring out the window is one of the best music experiences I've ever had.
Imagine this on a full screen on the train window 😱👍🏾
It is jarring when this ends and you're forced back into reality. Incredible experience.
"There are cities underneath cities Cities beneath the sea In deserted towns and burial mounds There is beauty that no-one will see And the magic of stones when taken back home Is left on the beach" ~Gravenhurst
Its beaitiful, wheres it from
@@communist-hippie Gravenhurst is the artist, song is called Cities Beneath the Sea. He was an underrated poet imho...
This video scares me on a deep, existential level for some reason. There's just something about those endless apartments...
Felt the same. Part of me could see the future having that type of outcome with thebrise of population.. Oof.
diversity lost for uniformism, not for this reason ? everything same, it's sad.
same here
If you ever try DMT or Salvia, you see this kind of thing once the information filters between you're senses and you're brain start to collapse.
But, this is how the universe is, an infinite loop, endless, but repetitive.
Incredible. I'm so glad my friend showed me this. I feel euphoric watching it. It's mesmerising. Amazing music and video, it's a work of art. Beautiful.
im so glad you like it
If you haven't yet watched Koyaanisqatsi you're missing out. I highly recommend it. Then watch Baraka.
True! The whole time I thought that I could have seen this in some art gallery ^^
Do a piano tutorial on it! Now!
Your friend has good taste. Keep this friend close.
jazz for the eyes as well as the ears in this new form is what I have been waiting for since 1959
possibly one of the most beautiful videos ever produced. Serious credits to kevin mcgloughlin. Amazing
When you are waiting for the elevator doors to open but your trip starts.
Lmfao
For real!!! 🛸🛸
😂🤣😭😭😭
jkl;
kzhead.info/channel/PLR5gx5cjx84ohlHpkedPdLdGVgO-JjEJi.html
Just beautiful
damn, James Lee is here?
yooo two of my favorite artists in one place!
I love your work !
Lgmara
Lagmra
I love this song. It's amazing how a simple, minimalist composition like this can at the same time produce that "woah" kind of feeling of an organ blasting at full force. As for the video, absolutely magnificent.
The magic of audiovisual minimalism striving for infinity
I'm so glad KZhead put this in my recommendation feed. This video is absolutely stunning.
Yes let's thank our God the KZhead overlords
Go to one of his audio visual shows. It will blow you away.
Holy shit this video is actually insane. I can't even fathom what this project file would look like. Seeing how some of these things are done would be a dream come true.
Millions of layers... also of years in rendertime.
looks like its not 3d based on the shadows and reflections
@@TanGLeng after effects or nuke
@@TanGLeng I think some parts are 3D and some aren't.
It's like cyriak or dr strange
I just feel bad for the editor's computer. So many damn layers.
I feel bad for the editor's brain. Kevin always puts it all out and delivers tremendously. I keep coming back to these videos to watch them some more
or on the the last jedi. infinite rey scene
I feel bad for the H264 video codec. It says: No!
wait this isnt real?
Are you a computer?
It literally brings me to tears
It's an impressive production but the music combined with the images make me feel like life is endless in a maddening kind of way.
god is bored and lonely. this never ends
Maddening is right, absolutely insane. But hey, have fun.
Yes.
first time I've ever seen Kevin McGloughlins work and now I'm fully obsessed. I study digital art at university and these are some of the most incredible visuals I've ever seen
Look up-Someday by Weval... another good video with visual effects like this one
@@24Korova even much better imo
@@bonjonbovi- good stuff right?
@@24Korova That one is made by his brother
I love how some parts are just actual shots of landscapes, like the rocky hill and snowy forest.
I love Art Music. It's just boundless!
I love it, when songs doesn't need words to tell you the story.
no words but a whole video specialy designed to showcase a meaning we all get
Wyłącz monitor dla pewności .
It feels like a big deal.
Music is annoying though … great visuals however.
Max Cooper and Kevin McGloughlin helped me have an interesting dream 2 nights ago. Old friends, classmates, family and co-workers watched a movie with me in a large cinema. We saw repeating patterns like these and we heard music like this. Neither can I fully remember the music I heard, nor can I clearly see the images I saw. The feelings were the same: all of my friends and I were watching the hypnotic patterns and enjoying each other. It occurred to me that I could control the movie with my mind: waiving my hands I could change what was on the screen and affect the music too. Thank you Max and Kevin.
Wow. I love this
i love you
Thank goodness I’m not on drugs right now. Thank goodness I’m not on drugs right now. Thank goodness I’m not on drugs right now.
Once every couple of years something comes along which leaves you totally floored, yet totally inspired, and ups the bar for creativity everywhere. This is one of those instances.
How to get a sick wallpaper: Screenshot at any point in the video
Could just illustrate your DMT expirence, I saw very similar things to what's in this video. Though they went by very quick, but it felt like years.
2:35
5:26
and that's exactly what I did
jk;
This makes me feel like I’ve stepped into some sort of dystopian dreamworld
PhantomProgrammer *utopian
@@muleboy3537 totally.............. no emotions, no melody, no harmony, just a repating pattern and some textures. People like zombies on the streets or in the tub ignoring who is around just waiting for their death.
PhantomProgrammer blade runner
John Connor Not really. It doesn’t give off that “dull, no creativity or harmony” vibe. If anything, quite the opposite.
Do not miss your exit!
This seriously reminds me of the fever dreams I used to have as a kid 😂 Epic!
That’s exactly what I was feeling !!
I used to have dreams like this when i was sick as a child .
same
Same here...thought that particularly with the brief space scene
same..
I love the transition throughout the video from artificially created shots to long-takes of forests and oceans. I don't think those parts are edited at all, and yet they still appear as infinite as the computer-generated sections before them.
so glad someone else noticed this. really amazing work.
@@maisboyfriend I interpret that as the whole point of the video 🙂
@@stevesm2010 same. once i noticed it the video became much more profound.
Listen to Repetition here: ffm.to/pdn5ban Subscribe: bit.ly/sub2maxcooper and enable alerts I wanted to make something huge and intense for the new live show, so I went for a project attempting to visualise the infinite and its links to us in our everyday lives. For every chapter of the story I found a different technique to approach it, in this case, the simple idea of repetition. Apply it, and we have a form of infinity. This was also a natural fit for my music, where I had a nice excuse to push the repetitive boat out even more than usual. I kept it very stripped back to focus on the idea, with slow evolution and occasional variants to maintain some melodic engagement. Visually, I was lucky to get to work with one of my favourite artists, Kevin McGlouglin, where we told the human side of the story, our endless pursuit of growth and "progress", our duplication of built form and expanding cities, looking to an unbounded future of urban sprawl. It was an audio-visualisation encompassing the project title "Yearning for the Infinite". But despite our society-endangering issues around human consumption and sustainability, it wasn't supposed to be a doom scenario. We tried that musically and it didn't seem to fit. There was a back and forth on the ideas and their musical and visual representation, and what worked was something that for me seems more focused on the worth of our endless striving than its possible role in our downfall. - - - KEVIN MCGLOUGHLIN: 'Repetition' is an attempt to convey the importance of our endless endeavours toward human development and growth amidst a chaotic and disorienting landscape. The struggle for a fruitful future is challenging with the distractions of everyday life alongside its ever-growing technological 'advancements'. The hope is for humanity to strive through all of this in a meaningful and positive way.
Amazing work!
Very well done. Did you also make alternate versions that are more repetitive and less melodically engaging?
Amazing
The mixing in of nature was thought provoking. Nature, both is the river patterns and the tree patterns, show a sense of repeating infinitely, yet the difference is that nature's forms are produced using a recursive algorithm, so the macroform is dictated by the micro environment and micro scale development of the process, hence the manifestation of slight variation in the repeated forms found in the nature, reminiscent of your previous work about emergent patterns from micro intelligence. This video demonstrates the folly of the current paradigm and inspires humanity to further develop towards more biomimicry and use the micro intelligence to achieve our macro order as opposed to the unnatural imposition of our desires on the earth from a macro down to micro. We have to keep developing and this video Is perfect to help us achieve that end and could use even more nature clips, as we need more juxtapositions to realize where we got It wrong. As a visual learner i truly appreciate such a demonstration of where our methods will lead us. One of the best videos on KZhead. Also watch the documentary without narration called baraka, it's very similar to this
💞💞💞.
This video made me feel like I am going to die. Not now. Just that it will happen someday, but it's all part of the natural cycle. Beautiful work.
Thanks for ruining my trip
@@Github_tech_with_ty 😂😂😂😂
@@Github_tech_with_ty 💀💀💀
The profound nature of your comment contrasted with your username, just beautiful
D I C K S Q U A D Aw damn I wanna die, too!
I A´M IN LOVE! With the video the sounds and the compositition and how it feels in the end. sooo nice and pure! Thank you.
Beautiful and grotesque. Well done.
The McGloughlin twin brothers are setting new benchmarks for music visualisation. Mindblowing.
@Justin Martone son et lumiere
I thought Thom Yorke was going start singing at anytime.
that'd be awesome!!
I think this is better than Thom could do...
@@StabbyMcBlade not really
@@shponglechunch8056 so you prefer Thom, I prefer this...
StabbyMcBlade nah fam
I use this album as the soundtrack to my story. It helps me focus, and I've chosen some of the tracks to represent specific scenes. You would not believe how influential and close these tracks are to me. Thank you.
The Kowloon Walled City of my dreams/nightmares!
those mega-highway shots were amazing and, in a way, terrifying
Highly agree on that one
yeah, getting lost in that knot of roads would be the end of you
I've always been scared of massive places, i can't think of the opposite word for claustrophobia, but it was a fear that exists in me, not because of fear of the unknown, but because I fear not being able to explore it all, yet somehow, you created a landscape, even though two-dimensional, was understood as one thing and infinite and I instantly knew what everything looked and felt like, even though it continued for eternity, and it completely calmed me. I love this and I want to save it for generations to come...
agoraphobia
SLOCM3Z megaphobia
Imo, agoraphobia and claustrophobia are the same thing. But thats in my experience.
@@mossy_6475 the opposite! Claustrophobia is the fear of confined spaces. Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces (but it's actually a more complex condition).
@@mpbyrong I know, it can go both ways for me. I meant that essentially, both fears entail the realization of a perspective vortex.
gorgeous
This clip is a masterpiece. No question. It makes me feel just as watching Koyaanisqatsi by Goedfrey Reggio did.
Had the same thought.
THIS. this this this.
Wow! Wow! That was absolutely amazing. The comparison to Philip Glass is obvious. Whoaaaaaa!!!!!
the sound design alone is enough to give me chills.
Hope to catch Max Cooper in Brixton soon. It depends on how fast he can run and how many beers I've had.
This is easily one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a LONG TIME! Incredible work!
For some reason, the music makes me feel like everythings going to be okay
I found myself thinking about the first time I got arrested. I was a senior in high school and got caught selling adderall in the school bathroom and was charged with a felony. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. I had no idea what was going to happen. But I was also filled with gratitude because I don't live like that anymore.
Because it is
same for me as far as the cosmos is concerned ...while at the same time the video made me think that everything definitely isn't okay as far as the people living on this speck of dust are concerned.
ditto°°°
it is.
Those slow sound progressions, those visuals ... Dope for eyes and ears.
This feels like peak modern art, I really wish it goes only above, but for now feels untouchable
I'm nothing short of awestruck. this is probably one of my favorite KZhead videos of all time
This is what it feels like to live in the 21st century.
Restlessly monotonous
Ah, almost
Acid showed me that
So fucking true
Everything and everyone is just common and damn repetitive.
I have trouble being concentrated on something, and when something is repetitive my eyes will lose focus. But this video was so hypnotic I barely blinked. Even after watching I still feel so focused, it's unbelievable.
I could watch this all day. Extremely relaxing.
Magic !
wow, stunning , amazing ...both visually and acoustically . The best thing I have heard so far this year
Max Cooper. Todo el disco en un viaje a la introspección del espacio fuera y dentro de nosotros. Muchas Gracias.
А лучше смотреть на все верхним зрением, если получиться
Beautiful. Thank you Max.
Quantity has a quality of its own.
Holy cow! This is an outstanding piece of art! You don't even need weed to find this mesmerizing...
True....but it defanantly wouldnt hurt lol 😄
@@chriscole7056 hehe, no it wouldn't. It's a bit different then. Better different... 😉
@@tweakabit3682 fa sho yo !
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@@carlosalbertocardozo9925 9
this is one of the best audio visual experiences a person can have
I am overwhelmed. This is simply perfect.
Literally one of my favorite songs/video.
Reminds me of the very first dreams I remember having. Just senseless, complex, overwhelming infinity.
Sounds both terrifying and beautiful.
Sounds incredible. Dreams are difficult happenings.
I feel you bro. Happens to me still now and then
Finn Reisner weird the first dreams I remember were video game like. Viewing myself horizontally super mario style and jumping on clouds.
I had fever nightmares as a kid like this, but the infinite space always started to close in, always got so small
This really wakes up something in me, every single time
It wakes up your deeper understanding that you already know, but you just pretending not to. The self that has seen this many times before...
This is truly awesome! Love it!
Some life flashing before your eyes shut
1:17 Reminds me of that Forest Swords videoclip
One of my favourites. Thanks for mentioning.
Me too!
Definitely. Also reminds me of the film, and Philip Glass soundtrack, Koyaanisqatsi.
"Crow" for those wondering
Reminds me of the fifth dimensional structure from Interstellar.
Every song accompanied by a video by Max Cooper is a bit of a psychedelic journey. I love it.
Thank you 🥺
I keep coming back to this video. It gives me a peace of mind.
Every time I listen to this, I feel like a part of this video. It's like I repeat myself but I am also different from the person who listened to this before.
The music is good, the video made me drift into a oddly mind set for a few
Amazing music, amazing visuals
Never felt so lost. Perfect music & video combo.
This is literally, and I’m not saying this lightly, the most satisfying and mesmerizing video ever. Just fixed on the center if the screen and all my troubles disappeared and for 5 minutes I was i a beautiful trance.
CARACA VELHO, INCRÍVEL!!! um mestre dos loops *-*
Speaks to me and then created a story in my head and just let the music bleed into my deep void of a heart
God bless you, Max!!!
Another fine lesson of architecture, music, video editing and narrative.
This song is a tear between the ether and the material, it touches us and is felt, sensed but not understood, the mind although it could, has no desire to intellectualize
Majestic! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Masterpiece
"Good job" doesn't even come close to describing this . Wow!
Very very nice work, it brings to mind somewhat Godfrey Reggio’s brilliant “Koyaanisqatsi”, in particular the urban landscapes within the film. Bravo!!
Yes! I was just about to post this very thought. Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass vibes, for sure.
@@smarmar400 :) I have to say there’s a lot of Phillip Glass works that I don’t care for but his soundtrack here is one of my favorites. Also love his string quartets, piano music and organ works. Cheers
That’s a stunning piece of music 😎😎💚💚💚
Absolutely superb music and video, really impressive!!
This is a ballsy piece of art, talk about committing to an idea, bravo.
We all know where the artistic style comes from, but this combination is very powerful indeed. And it adds new dimensions to the reality of it, it expands. Kudos to the music and to the video
astonishingly beautiful.
A true work of art
perfect video for this track. It deserves millions of views
@@youtubeuserumb а должны быть миллионы!) я, в общем, дико рад, что это в рекоменды прилетело.
It got millions
@@whatamievendoing yeeeee boiiiiiiii
It's crazy man. I love it. Really best video I have ever seen.
Such a spectacle
映像も音楽も最高 これに出会えた私は幸せだわ
I had this playing on repeat...
wow this music video is such a masterpiece
this...this just mesmerizing to my eyes and ears
I listen to it over and over again without getting bored.
Eat this while watching acid
Mushrooms did a ton of me before I started watching.
@@AlchemistTongueDrums the universe found out the meaning of me while i came into existence.
I watched this after sticking a book in the refrigerator because I had a headache,. Now I'm just fine becoming photo negative dyslexic.,
Skeeter McSwagger I didn't know photo negative dyslexic existed until this comment but I killed god and the new one is so much better
The first KZhead comment I've made in months and it's fucking that what the fuck
This feels like the trailer to a Christopher Nolan movie
Tenet you mean haha
Visually it's similar to the end of Interstellar.
@@BatmanHQYT I was thinking the same the whole time I was tripping
More like a tv show opening
This video gives the vibe of deeper understanding of life, of our civilization, of everything...
that might have been the coolest thing ive ever seen
I get the impression there is some Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio influence here. Great work!