Max Cooper - In Threes (Official video by Natalia Ryss)

► Claim your digital collectible: ► Stream / download / vinyl: ► Tour dates: ► Sign up join our Mesh community on Discord: ► Vinyl: Warning: Contains flashing images Max Cooper: Thanks for having a look at my new music video project. It was built around the number 3. I set up a simple rhythm where there are patterns of 3’s punctuated by brash marching sort of percussion and direct Moogy synth stabs counting out the numbers. It’s the drums which force the 3’s, when they disappear and I left the main chord synth running it could sound like a regular collection of 4’s running at a different tempo like what you probably hear in the intro. I like how years of club music tricks us back into the 4’s and we have to be jolted out of it each time, it’s something I used before on Order from Chaos a little more subtly, which I wanted to try in brash format. I chatted to Natalia about how we could push the threeness further for the video and she had a whole collection of ideas. I love how her work is so abstract and human at the same time, all hand drawn and full of expression in every painstaking frame. I won’t try and explain her concept I’m still unfolding it myself to be honest. But huge thanks Natalia for all the months of work on this, it was a labour of love all round, thanks for joining us for the expression experiment. Natalia Ryss: I tried to interpret the concept proposed by the composer and reflected in the title “In Threes” and in the structure of the musical track itself.I presented it as an abstraction in different ways/meanings. I used the most of visuals/ideas from my abstract ideas notebook calls “Book of Nothingness” 2021: “In Threes” means: Tree as Three (kind of playing with words and symbols): 1. (vegetable) intuitive, soft, rounded shapes, symmetry... 2. (logical) lines, connections, growth, tension, constructions, grid, pendulums, signs... 3. (chaotic) destructive, strobe, interruption, paint run, shapeless spots in Three Worlds: 1. Lower world (roots, dense lines, red-black-brown colors) 2. Middle world (development, multiplication of forms, fractals, pipes, direction, green-orange-violet-pink colors) 3. Upper world (neural network, flashes, breaks, unfinished forms, glow and flicker, yellow-white-blue colors) Some kind of consistent half abstract action, which as repetition, loop, with overcoming, hindrances and development of the situation, sometimes everything starts from the beginning, but in a different way. In the end, the movement goes without failures and images does not repeat itself literally. New forms multiply, their movement acquires the unity of rhythm. In the finale, the image-idea of the Tree as an embodiment of the Three Principles unites the manifestations of forms, following the rhythm of the heart. Social links : Website: Instagram: @Onza68 @NataliaRyss Twitter: Behance: Vimeo: CREDITS Music: Max Cooper: Video: Natalia Ryss All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper and Mesh - no use without permission