electrovoid - seventyw8 (ft. SAROS & kevin sv)

....what are you waiting for?

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6Os92p...
apple music:   / seventyw8-single  
instrumental+untuned svp: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

i’ll be honest i wasn’t expecting to actually release this song, but then i had the idea for their little pixel art sprites and now we’re here.
Q: wow that must’ve been a lot of lipsync animation! (ok this isn’t technically a question but whatever)
A: yes and no! these sprites are made of a base layer (head & body), mouth, eyes, and brows. i actually wrote a bit of code to take a spreadsheet of phonemes (which, ok, i DID have to manually type out anyway) and assign each a corresponding mouth and a base (open jaw for vowels, closed for consonants), then save all the frames to a folder. then i just sequenced the images in blender (easiest way) and edited them together with eyes and brows, then did movement + lyrics in after effects! if yall are interested maybe i can do a post about it or smth idk ive already yapped enough THANKS FOR WATCHING

lyrics:
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again
It’s building up and up until it makes it worth the delay, in a way
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again
The satisfaction in this moment’s more than I can convey any day

You wanted to realize something you can feel, ah
But when you go and break the rules, that’s how you know it’s real
(that was stupid)
You said you’re just fine without it, not something we need, ah
But if you never change, then how will you ever be free?
(okay, that was a bit dramatic)

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again (one five four, two five eight, I’m getting dizzy counting)
It’s building up and up until it makes it worth the delay, in a way (one sixty six plus thirty one, oh I just can’t get enough)
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again (go again)
The satisfaction in this moment’s more than I can convey any day

This heightened awareness, isn’t it just so
No tether to reality, I cut it long ago
My head in the ozone, the planet below
There can be too much of a good thing, you’ve got to take it slow

I can’t be the only one who sees color in noise and chaos, normal communication
Isn’t it ironic that it’s said by someone who once fell in that characterization
I should be, with all this repetition, a victim of semantic satiation
Isn’t it just perfect how the digits align with brightness, hue, and saturation?

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again
It’s building up and up until it makes it worth the delay, in a way
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again
The satisfaction in this moment’s more than I can convey any day

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy say
Hit replay
I’ll wait forever and a day if it means I’m entertained, anyway
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seven remain
I wait
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has this thing in their brain, can’t explain

Pixel perfect precision, red, alpha, green, blue
No absence of intensity, only the purest hue
(okay…)
This contrast in tone looks too good to be true
Achromatic restriction, constructed to break through

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again
(one five four, two five eight, I’m getting dizzy counting)
It’s building up and up until it makes it worth the delay, in a way
(one sixty six plus thirty one, oh I just can’t get enough)
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again (go again)
The satisfaction in this moment’s more than I can convey any day

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Wait, go again (one more time)
The satisfaction in this moment’s more than I can convey any day