Sometimes I need solace in structure, so I made a track about it for unspoken words LP, perfectly visualised by Donato Sansone, Marco Holland and Silvia Gariglio who built an audio synced animation and hand drew every frame for 3D sketch aesthetic for the 3D AV shows
It's hard to know what to say on release day. So much time, work, thought, joy & pain goes into the process. I put everything I had into this one, & tried to be as musically honest as I could. I hope some of the ideas & feelings resonate with you.
How to visualise the essence of thought? One approach was to visualise "Turing-completeness" as shown by Wolfram's "Rule 110", simulated & animated by
@RavenKwok
which you can see below.
Fuller explanation in video description:
A snippet from Contour 輪郭 short film which I wrote music for, it’s beautiful animation and an intense little adventure! In collab w
@wow_tokyo
@dimensionstudio
full vid at
I made a little mix for
@maryannehobbs
show on
@BBC6Music
right now at (my mix goes on around 12 I think)...thanks for having me on the show Mary Anne!
I’ve prepared a special (as in, I spent ages on it) 30 min mix for the great
@maryannehobbs
💥12pm today on BBC6
Some all time fav electronics, ambient, dnb, techno, experiments, new album preview some rave and mixing challenges to make 14 tracks fit
A little LP preview today with some relaxed peace broken by industrial noise as our Identity breaks free in the story of One Hundred Billion Sparks
Listen:
Tomorrow - Aether at
@MUTEK_Montreal
with
@archisocialclub
(then 3D AV The Ground Miami Friday, 5hr DJ set Stereo Montreal Saturday and Live AV at Fractal Fest Massachusetts Sunday)
Many thanks to everyone in Belfast for that, was a special one…setting off for Dublin tonight at
@ButtonFactory22
@CentrePointClub
if you’d like to join me for more 3DAV…everything with
@nickcobby
🤿
What an amazing festival - a takeover of an old Soviet power plant where part of the complex is a cinema they built to provide art/entertainment for the workers, with beautiful architecture we repurposed for the 3DAV show at Inota Festival ❤️
Digits of pi mapped to a tree structure by Martin Krzywinski and animated by Nick Cobby. With the circle eventually emerging. It’s interesting how the same thing can embody total disorder on one hand (the statistically random digits) and total order (the circle) on the other.
My next album, Unspoken Words, comes in a special Dolby Atmos surround sound blu-ray movie + HD audio format as well as vinyl and digital.
Cover artwork and design was created by
@zachlieberman
and Colin Droz.
Atmos mix by
@stringandtins
studio.
This beauty has arrived 💥 my new album project, Unspoken Words, is out Fri 25 March on
@mesh_label
(as seen below in its 12” heavyweight double gatefold glory)
Many thanks to the amazing
@zachlieberman
and Colin Droz for the design.
Pre-order here:
The narrative of Hope depicts the epic journey of the ion as part of neuronal action, driven by electromagnetic forces, of which the force carrier is the virtual photon, or light.
A story of Hope, with the protagonist cast as an ion! First single from the new album One Hundred Billion Sparks - pre-order the album and get tour tickets here:
Thanks to
@Vimeo
for the Staff Picks wreath of honour for this video!
Aether will be at
@iiiPoints
Miami next week. It’s an audio-visual light field installation I’ve been working on for some years with the awesome
@ArchitectureSC
Gracias
@SonarFestival
for another amazing event and to all of you who joined for the 3DAV…some Kinect face maps here with
@nickcobby
from our old secrets vid with my hot chip rmx fm the back cat. Next up
@BeyondThePaleIE
Sunday
It’s album release day tomorrow, I put everything I had into this new project, I hope some of you enjoy it.
Big love
@DJMagEs
in Spain for supporting with your album of the month feature
It was one of the most enjoyable remixes I've ever worked on, many thanks to
@joepbeving
and
@DGclassics
for inviting me to be part of this beautiful project.
Listen link / set a reminder to watch video at 4pm (BST) by Ksawery Komputery
My live show has been kindly nominated amongst many great musicians for the
@AIM_UK
awards ‘best live show’. If you’re into lending your support with this sort of thing it does make a difference for independent artists.
Vote:
New AV project out today. Life amongst rapid development and the wiping of neighbourhoods by
@dithdsgn1
in audio reactive generative format..full vid and more EP tracks via
“Any electronics in your bag?”
”Yes delicate instruments please don’t put it in the hold”
“You’re a musician you say, what instrument do you play?”
”well no”
”you’re a DJ?”
”umm, not really, ah f* it, yeah I’m a DJ, this is my decks”
”oh great, go straight through then”
I’m having a little chat with the great
@maryannehobbs
on 6music this morning about the new electronic music exhibition at the
@DesignMuseum
if you’d like to join us
Cell division on ancient architecture at Teatro Romano Spoleto with Maxime Causeret order from chaos and
@andylomas_art
morphogenesis…next..
15.07 Batumi, Stage 17
21.07 London, Junction 2 [no gauze]
23.07 Cheshire, BlueDot
28.07 Berlin, Dark Matter [install, no visuals]
For the last few years I've been experimenting with how to combine live visuals and multiple projections with my music, so I thought I'd have a go at a bit of an audio-visual live stream this Saturday at 8pm GMT / 9pm CET / 4pm EST
Amsterdam on the weekend so good to be back after so long, many thanks to all of you who made it💥Clip features Everything with
@nickcobby
mapped to 3D layers. Next up Glasgow and Antwerp this week
My new single ‘Exotic Contents' is out today. Something a bit different for me with some half time dnb naughtiness. I'll be calling in to the great
@maryannehobbs
show on
@BBC6Music
this morning at 11:40am GMT to talk about the new single a little. Visit:
I put a lot of love & hard work into this new album single, pushing myself to a bit of a different musical realm, I hope you enjoy it. Headphones on & eyes closed recommended, as there are more than 100 layers of sounds with many binaural/spatial effects:
Something special today from the mad genius Páraic McGloughlin, who has been out in the Irish countryside painting hundreds of massive circles visible from space, for a story of the infinite and of helpless circular obsession
If you’d like to know more:
Out today, this one was a new remixing experience for me, working in collaboration with one of my favourite producers, Rob Clouth, on the great original by Jon Gurd.
@robclouth
@jongurd
@Anjunadeep
3DAV Melbourne Friday with Autechre + Actress + Giant Swan then Brisbane Powerhouse and Budapest Inota next weekend if you’d to join me (some Resynthesis with Kevin McGloughlin in the clip)
I’ll be talking with
@maryannehobbs
later this morning on
@BBC6Music
about my new live album, ‘Live at the Acropolis’
You can listen via the BBC Sounds app or online between 10:30am-1pm
I made a little 3D audio experiment reworking some old tracks into all binaural format - available now on streaming platforms in case of interest.
Below video is 'Resynthesis 3D' by the great Kevin McGloughlin
Link is here:
So much love for Montreal ❤️ massive thank you to all of you who made that special event happen for Aether with
@archisocialclub
at
@MUTEK_Montreal
last night, total vibes throughout and the impromptu phone AV was 🔥
some snippets..
Amazing time in Rome big love to all of you who joined for the 3D AV show
@VideoCitta
❤️ 🇮🇹
This snippet is Solace in Structure by Italian artist Donato Sansone projected to layers for live 3D effect. Next up for the AV show is Barcelona on Friday 🇪🇸
Behind the scenes Nick Cobby making his Transcendental Tree Map video from Martin Krzywinski’s mapped digits of pi! 🥧
If you’d like to watch the video, link is here:
The minimalist lines video for Void is out today ++ I'll be bringing the live visual show to Printworks in London along with Koze, Floating Points, Mathew Herbert and more.
Official video is by Jessica In
@innjesst
Video link is here:
Some big full scale room filling round kick for you today with Rebūke’s remix of Ascent out on Mesh…one for the clubs can’t wait to play this it’s a huge one many thanks
@rebukemusic
🔥
Listen here
Music lets us share our selves and find that we’re all the same where it counts. That simple idea was the basis of my new album - Unspoken Words, hopefully you’ll hear where I’m trying to come from with it.
Digi, vinyl, Dolby Atmos, blu-ray, 24/48 stereo
Symmetry 3DAV with Kevin McGloughlin visual and Tom Hodge on rhodes. I’ll be bringing the show to Glasgow, Newcastle and Leeds this weekend, still some tickets left for Newcastle
@BoilerShopNCL
if of interest
What an amazing experience many thanks everyone in Melbourne and Nowornever for making it happen…some snippets from Swarm short film I scored for the McGloughlin brothers full length here if of interest
Unspoken Words film in Dolby Atmos + Dolby Vision is now available to stream via On Air
I put everything I had into this project along many amazing collaborators, but the infrastructure hadn’t been there to stream the Atmos movie format until now.
new rmx for Jim Wallis, the original was so full of feeling, I just brought the synths, noise and rumble + Julius Horsthuis vid snippet fm our Emptyset project. Full length at
Now open, the new exhibition at
@DesignMuseum
in London looking at the history of electronic music and club culture - features 2 of my music videos and a film from
@BarbicanCentre
about Yearning for the Infinite.
Tickets
I spent a couple of days clanging Anthony Gormley sculptures (with permission) to make a lot of the sounds on the new record. In particular you can hear at the start of Void, these big low clangs from some huge metal sculpture resonance.
Ahead of the UN assembly I got involved this project encouraging climate considerations amongst post-covid economic recovery plans feat. Pope Francis, Greta, Guterres etc.
Performing on the site of the Acropolis was an overwhelming experience, an extremely intense gig scenario.
I'm excited to announce my first ever live album, live at the Acropolis, out this Fri 29 October. Pre-save/pre-order the album below
@plisskenfest
@maryannehobbs
@BBC6Music
Thanks so much for inviting me for the mix, and for everything you do to support artists who wouldn’t otherwise get heard on the BBC ♥️💥
I can’t thank the legend that is
@maryannehobbs
enough, supporting my new album once again, with a play of my Broken Machines today as part of Techno Tuesday on
@BBC6Music
🤍
I’ll be dialing in just after 11am to say a few words about it
I made mix for the excellent
@bleep
series. Some unreleased ideas I’ve been working on recently included, along with
@LaurelHalo
Glassforms remix and lots of Mesh content. I hope there’s something in there you enjoy
Listen:
The photo is by
@ozgecone
Here’s a new music video for you - aesthetics of the infinite via Roger Penrose’s tiling system which can go on forever without falling into simple repeating units. Many thanks to
@innjesst
for turning this idea into an animated structure for the new show
An attempt at an audio-visualisation of the earliest infinite reference I could find, a mystic white light spawning imagery of the earliest human cave paintings with the magician of liquids, Thomas Vanz.
‘Let There Be’
Watch it here:
I was interested in whether we could build a video from a few stills…particle system and AI interpolation months later - Forgotten Places with Kathrin deBoer built from the photography of Jonk (Jonathan Jimenez) Full vid at
Tune in to
@maryannehobbs
show on
@BBC6Music
this morning to hear
@robclouth
talk about his new single 'Emerging From' - it's another mad experiment that shouldn't be on daytime radio! ✌️💥💙
I’ve made a mix for
@maryannehobbs
12midday BST on
@BBC6Music
today it’s a 20 tracks in 30mins edit and bootleg mangler with plenty of classics and some new productions and cross genre reworks if you’d like to join us for it (and a new Mesh release preview) >>>
I find most lyrics tedious, but not James Yorkston. He creates something special with rich image laden scenes, and he has provided a beautiful story for Repetition, giving it a whole new direction which speaks straight to my childhood memories of Ireland.
I my my own 3D/binaural version of Resynthesis after all the 8D chat...to see what I could do with everything in that format (all binaural pans and modulation)...only works with headphones and in HD mode...
The remixes of my album are out today, so time for a mega name drop session... thank you Roly Porter, Poppy Ackroyd, Para For Cuva, Barker, Acid Pauli, Etapp Kyle, Llyr, DJ Tennis + Barratt, Indian Wells, Brecon, Synkro, Dave DK, Wilderthorn AND Robag Wruhme!..!.!
Brighton, Birmingham, Norwich this weekend then Madrid, Manchester, Cardiff next and Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds after that if you’d like to join me for any of them
Known for glitchy, complex and textured compositions,
@maxcoopermax
marries ambient techno with intense visuals.
We cannot wait to see his new 3D/AV set here on Saturday 14 October:
I’m excited for London tomorrow and Athens on Sunday. I’m just en-route to Brixton getting prepared for the show. There’s some last 100 remaining tickets available.
Tour dates / tickets at:
@mesh_label
@L_W_E
@L_ACOUSTICS