Llyr - The Hawthorne Effect (Official Video by Xander Steenbrugge)

The Hawthorne Effect from Llyr’s upcoming album, Biome, on Mesh. Video by Xander Steenbrugge. Llyr enrols Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) AI art expert Xander Steenbrugge to lend his creative coding to this audiovisual piece. It combines surging AI hallucinations with Llyr’s experimental sound design techno, created from a field recording of a swarm of insects. Depicting the delicate interplay between nature’s serene environment and the potential destruction that human civilization can bring about when left unchecked, Llyr’s “The Hawthorne Effect“ challenges us all on how we can coexist with nature. Stream/pre-order 12“ eco-vinyl: Released via Max Cooper’s Mesh Recordings - exploring the intersection between music, art and science - Llyr’s Biome project is an expansive audio documentation of natural beauty and human impact. Llyr: The rain had just stopped after a three day torrential downpour and we were sitting in the outdoor k