Max Cooper feat. Kwake Bass - Fibonacci Sequence (Official video by Yoshi Sodeoka)

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Warning: Contains some flashing images
Max Cooper:
I've been working on a commission for Salzburg festival and Barbican London to create a new show based around Italy. So I've been delving into some historic Italian music and science to find ideas for new audio and visual content. The most famous of all sequences, the Fibonacci Sequence, had to be included.
Yoshi Sodeoka, who made my Spike visual project, had a beautiful system linking the Fibonacci Sequence to starling flight, and we started chatting about how to make music for his visual system for the Seme project. Initially I came up with a synth jam with no percussion, which fit the feeling of the story we were telling, but we needed more expression around the rhythmical Fibonacci sequence mapping out the time differences between each number 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.
It's quite an un-musical rhythmical sequence, and sounded quite wooden through my synths, so I went to a rhythm maestro, Kwake Bass, the drummer from Speakers Corner Quartet amongst many others. I visited Kwake in his London studio and set him the challenge of playing the sequence.
After a short warm up he said he was ready, and then went on to unleash a mad barrage of drumming expression and sweat flying. It was amazing to see, and I tried to bring as much of that live improvised rhythmical madness into the piece. The version on streaming services has the full blast of drums, but for the video we pulled them back a touch because the visual sequenced demanded it.
I often work that way with visual collaborators, adjusting the music as much as the visual as we bounce ideas back and forth to find the best solution. So, that's it, another audio-visual experiment, I hope you enjoy it.
There's a bunch more, very different experiments on the Seme EP too, with 500 year old Holy music meets synths and bass, opera singers, piano improvs and cello, and some of my usual patches and melodies too, plus some more, beautiful visual collaboration projects to show you soon too. Thanks for having a look and a listen x
Yoshi Sodeoka:
"In our second collaboration since “Spike” in 2020, it all began in the summer of 2023, when we started chatting about our shared interest in blending art, math, and science. Drawn to the concept of the Golden Ratio, I continued my exploration with simulations featuring birds, moths, and spiders - all those creatures.
While visually different from “Spike”, this new video "Fibonacci Sequence" isn’t quite the departure it may seem. In my mind, both projects share a common thread of exploration. “Spike” delved into abstraction through feedback systems, while "Fibonacci Sequence" focuses more on the observable intricacies of nature. However, at their core, both videos are rooted in the concept of swarming. Whether abstract or figurative, the motion and behaviors showcased in both are driven by the same underlying physics principles. "Fibonacci Sequence" serves as a continuation of this exploration, offering a closer observation of how nature behaves within the framework of these concepts.
Recognizing the parallels between flocking birds and fluid simulations, I set out to merge these elements into a visual story that's both engaging and thought-provoking.
In a back-and-forth with Max, we bounced ideas off each other, each element building on the last. As I fine-tuned my videos, guided by the Golden Ratio, Max worked his magic to complement those visual rhythms with a symphony of beats and melodies. It was a collaborative effort, gradually coming together to create the experience that is "Fibonacci Sequence."
CREDITS
Music + concept: Max Cooper
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Video director: Yoshi Sodeaoka
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Label: Mesh
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Management: The Wild Seeds
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[@ShenanHawkins]

Murmurations are huge groups of starlings that twist, turn, swoop and swirl across the sky in beautiful shape-shifting clouds. Just before dusk, small groups of starlings from the same area come together above a communal roosting site.

[@mrinalvashisth]

For a systems' biologist like me, your work and vision and inspirational. Thank you, Max Cooper

[@wendelynmusic]

Brilliant 😊

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Happy to be here guys

[@Viola_GoodVibes]

A Beautiful Musical Work and an Incredible Atmosphere of Sounds and a Wonderful Visualizer.🥰

[@PixelisedPaul]

Music is math

[@NikosPer]

music is feelings

[@djsaeg]

great synth textures, the drums where abstracted elegantly

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[@weird_things_happen_allthetime]

Yet another brilliant video to Max Coper's music. That's the way to do it

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Another auditive and visual gemstone!!! ❤

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So prepare yourselves. The next Max Cooper wave has already begun! And it's official!

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❤

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.🤲🤍

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It's not only about Max cooper, it's everything and us

[@nienize]

Finally something to spike my mind again

[@JHeb_]

Wouldn't expect Yoshi Sedoka video with your music! Seen his work recently. I'm very glad to see your collaboration.

[@cornishwavesmusic]

Fantastic, love some M cooper

[@meditationman4208]

Ive been waiting for a collab with yoshi for so long!!

[@masusugimo9253]

陶芸家が一つの壺を作るような感じで曲が出来上がっていくイメージが見えました😊ありがとう

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Как всегда, ОЧЕНЬ талантливо!)

[@CooperNeff]

I saw Yoshi's art on instagram a few months ago and thought it'd go great with your music... and here we are 😂

[@meditationman4208]

I used to tag him constantly!! Haha dreams do come true after all

[@barbarafuglein3918]

Tolle Arbeit!!😊

[@cornishwavesmusic]

Loved the SEME ep

[@FloatingLeaf1111]

That was intense. The sounds and visuals were just sooo wow!

[@GoG6138]

I didn't like it until I read the description and listened again. Thanks for all the details it makes it more interesting to know what the goal was and how you got there.

[@axoid]

Awesome. I love it!

[@jonstewart464]

Mind expanding, spiritual. Love it!

[@woosung__k]

Incredible ❤

[@littlemusic717]

The music is so relaxing that it relieves my stress so much.😊😊 Thank you my new friend, support!!❤❤

[@ccstork1180]

Funny thing, three days ago I've been observing with an awe the same sequence on the sky.

[@xabiermgeul9689]

Impresionante!

[@iami0]

love it.

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Beauty❤️

[@perryjones4161]

elegant as fuck

[@MatSymon]

You are a gift to the world

[@z3dalink575]

big Yoshi!

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✨💫❤🚀

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[@lamarrash192]

Cool voids animation

[@Ryco117]

*boids

[@johnsaunders8609]

I'd swear I can hear some sampling of resynthesis in there

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❤❤❤

[@paulwebb6914]

Emperor's new sounds.

[@72ndHUMAN]

quick maths 🍥

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Una completa locura

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😵‍💫

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[@adrienandremarie]

Allez

[@Ellegun]

Requiem is fckn real also in my top

[@emocee]

Yesa.

[@deepnofin]

I recommend you the wonderful book of Gary B. Meisner : the Golden Number.

[@gabrielwolfcolor]

Great work! BTW, the lights are crying out for HDR grading. On KZbin as on Vimeo, HDR (+SDR downgrade included) is free if you know how to export HDR10 properly. I would love to help...

[@TianleXTianle]

牛逼！

[@mjwolf9529]

❤But I can still hate Freeform jazz, right?

[@DaduWheat]

When you forget to hit the "snap to grid button" in your DAW.

[@gdoh2280]

-Fischer 96-

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-Bobby 69-

[@maximusoverprogamer]

Someone had fun in blender there :D

[@airazure2050]

Or unreal engine

[@dimaradkevich8445]

.🤲🤍

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

The drums are bothersome.

[@pelerinc]

Meh. Some aspects of this were great, but lots of elements didn't fit. References to starlings, but the birds shown in close-up were not starlings (looked like crows/ravens?). Also I'm not aware of any connection between the Fibonacci sequence and murmuration....this felt forced, when there are lots of other great examples in nature. And the track was cool, but felt like one long intro with no cohesive form or beat emerging. Could have rocked.

[@urban_phantom7750]

Listen at least 100 times, and then write something. Criticism is easy, producing unique and intelligent music and art not so much

[@sedwords]

Colorless, emotionless, awkward jittery headache inducing rhythms. Sounds like you hit the 'random' button on your modular setup then walked away. The mastering is excellent but c'mon Max, when are you going to make something beautiful?