Max Cooper - Leaving This Place (Official Video by Jazer Giles)

Max Cooper - Leaving This Place (Official Video by Jazer Giles)

Max Cooper
I was writing this piece of music during a recent period of isolation when I needed some escapism, and I became totally lost in the piece of music, forgetting to sleep or eat for long periods of time while I worked on it. For the visual project I was drawn to the work of Jazer Giles, which for me, has a beautiful balance of computational and organic form. It's rich with structure and rules, but also full of a sort of wrongness that signifies art from a human. And it's also deep with sub-systems and details, there's a lot hidden in there as there is with the music, if you're interested to delve into it with headphones and high res.

I was interested to hear from Jazer that the system itself mirrors these aesthetic elements via the source of two algorithms at play being alternatively activated by colour and angle structures. One algorithm works a little like a cellular automata, building subsequent pixels based on surrounding pixels to yield simple repetitive structures, while the other algorithm uses a Physarum slime mould type rules algorithm for a more random exploratory growth aesthetic - the overall system being a balance of these two worlds, and a visual interplay of life and computation.

Many thanks for supporting our work with your reading, watching and listening, and hopefully I'll see you at a gig sometime where we can cover the walls in this beautiful visual work.