Max Cooper - Emptyset - Official video by Julius Horsthuis

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Find out more: www.onehundredbillionsparks.net “Numbering things is an important building block for thought, without which our capacity for measurement and many other faculties are compromised. But in the early 1900’s mathematicians were troubled by what numbers were, in a pure sense, when there is nothing assigned to be counted. Mathematics and the tools of our thought couldn’t be based on oranges or lemons to which numbers are assigned. They solved the problem with the empty set, a list with nothing in it, from which all numbers could be built. I find this idea interesting as it fits into the more general theme running throughout this project whereby the foundations of thought must be built, in a sense, from a vacuum. Meaning is created by opposition rather than inheritance (reciprocity), the capacity for logical processing can be an emergent property of simple systems (Rule 110), agency is emergent (Volition), identity is a morphing product of conditioning (Identity), and a basic of logical thought such as counting, is built from emptiness using sets (Emptyset). This seeming lack of firm foundations is not restricted to this area however. If we look at the foundations of the objective world in the form of matter, we can keep zooming in to smaller and smaller sub-units. When we reach the “smallest” units we know of, physicists talk of point particles with zero size, which, are perfect replicas of one another, and only seem to exist in the sense of the informational relationships we deem them to embody. The familiar “stuff” of matter we’re comfortable with seems to have been replaced by ideas. I love this groundlessness underneath so much of what is taken for granted. It’s not the sort of thing scientists will often talk about, as it’s speculative and perhaps not always practically productive. But it’s inspiring and fun to think about, which is all I’m really interested in. The music is mainly just an expression of my feelings during my month of isolated thoughts about my foundations, and an attempt to fit the musical form to the visual aesthetic aims I had for telling this story. It is the ideas which are the main product of the project. Getting back to the chapter thread, counting is created from the void using the emptyset, a list, with no entries. This is assigned the number 0. Then there is some meta-trickery, where a new set is constructed which contains the emptyset as one of its entries (a set is just a list of contents), this is the number 1. 2 is then constructed as being a new set which contains both the previous sets for 0 and 1 - the emptyset plus theset containing the emptyset. 3 is then defined as the set containing all the sets for 0, 1 and 2, and so on to infinity. I wanted to mirror this process of construction by iteration with a constant arpeggiated synth line throughout, a never-ending mechanism of creation, while the track plays. Julius Horsthius, applied fractal image generation to mirror the process visually, whereby simple structures repeat, grow and evolve to create something that looks like a pencil sketch of a real-world scene to me. We spoke a lot about how we could push the process outside of that of normal fractals, using lots of disorder and fine grained noise to try and get that balance between certain form, and chaos, which we see in nature and all around us.” www.maxcooper.net Julius: “It was an honor to be creating this piece for Max Cooper, whom I’ve admired ever since I heard his music. Max thought fractals where a good fit for his emptyset concept, but he didn’t want the fractals to be recognizable as such. Therefore, the usual aesthetics of the Mandelbulb3D software had to remain hidden. I experimented by creating some fractals that where extremely high in noise, and sometimes, interesting patterns start to appear in this noise, which I thought worked very effectively with the musical patterns evolving over time. Fractals are fascinating because they often trigger in our minds familiarity and are a boost to the imagination.” www.julius-horsthuis.com

[@urban_phantom7750]

Excellent work - both the music and video too! Thanks Max, Julius :)

[@antoniocoppola5130]

This is wonderful for me both musically and visually is impressive always that I hear your songs Max I feel that there are patterns and concepts more complex hidden in your compositions that escape my mind while listening but it is entirely Palcentero for my listening I wish I was more learned in these areas to understand the complexity and sophistication of your creations that my point of view are ahead of their time for much maybe in 30 or 50 years this chat This full of interesting and strange comments to our current form of embody written but what I'm sure is that your music inspires me hopefully had more tracendencia at the mass media level but that ended with the magic in them therefore this song and Harmonisch is Rie and Chaotish series are my favorites because I can not find that fifth essence that I would like to understand or say good in the meantime greetings from México 🇲🇽 brother there are people who appreciate your work closely here And congratulations on your creative process and your new album

[@HungryTacoBoy]

Amazing stuff, truly. Love your work. This makes me want to read more about empty sets as I've never heard of that before.

[@Internet_Enjoyer]

fresh visuals, thats rare these days.

[@varunkaranth7589]

That too without ads

[@kymkymo]

Reading the description Max shows you're not only an amazing musician but also thoughtful and intellectually curios. Beautiful as always

[@magicianNevar]

Raising the bar once more Max, both of you did a great job in this one. Too bad i missed your performance last week in Greece.. i hope i get to see you perform in a greater venue some time in the future!

[@noahbirdrevolution]

Nice. Hadn't heard any Max Cooper in a hot minute.

[@jianhangtang1046]

out of this world

[@AmperSand666]

The video composition is truly stunning, I'm so fascinated I barely hear the song (Max Cooper would kill me :)) Great videoclip overall, great work, thanks and congratulations!

[@johnstamos4629]

Max is from another planet

[@valaur3]

It's like looking through a portal into shifting possibilities of dimensions

[@celiaayneto9232]

Collaborations full of wonder !!

[@davidmcgough8736]

Incredible complex mournful intricate the layering of so many elements at the same time very innovative and organic

[@psychedalek]

a new type of psychedelia. it seems like it must be crass to discuss drugs around here. im very curious about how they fit in with such a finely crafted experience

[@ameno02]

excellent!!! bravo

[@christina79ish]

fucking lov it! the light and the heavy in one . The pretty and the obscure together. muchas gracias.

[@aranciata1723]

Very cool

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love

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cool video

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Mystic mushroom, i see you...

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This is a church?

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[@psychedalek]

haha .. digitally butchered. thanks KZbin #fuckyoutube Thanks for spell checking my typing tho Google...