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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- I composed 'People' for Nordic Voices and friends-a video piece. I spent a week recording hours of material with a single camera and a microphone.
The piece is essentially monophonic, with a sense of polyphony created by quickly alternating clips. You only see one face and hear one voice at a time. There are no audio effects, only short sequenced clips.
I fixed a chair to the floor and positioned a monitor with a grid in front of the singers, thinking it would be easy for them to sit still and align perfectly with the grid. Despite their efforts, we quickly realized that humans are unable to sit still. So, I ended up spending the whole week on my knees behind the singers, supporting their backs with a stretched-out hand to help them align with the grid as they sampled the material.
Then I sat down with Final Cut Pro, sorted through terabytes, and edited the piece frame by frame, clip by clip, by hand. I recorded my footage in film quality, and at first, it seemed too much for any editor. However, I successfully edited it on my old MacBook using proxy media.
Many thanks to Tone, Frank, Ingrid, Per Kristian, Ebba, Rolf Magne, Mats, Bjarne, Christian, Bjørg, Mariam, Balint, Hanna, Teodor, and Mariam M. Special thanks also to Det Norske Komponistfond and Notam.
I feel like an animal watching a tv: I hear, I see, yet I do not understand what I am looking at
Now all we need to make an qnimal watch this. They may understand.
An amazing way of describing it
This is the only way to describe it
Ya, exactly
Imagine your family or Someone walking in on you watching this.
I think they would be a bit concerned. Also, while watching this, it felt like more than 9 minutes I felt like I was watching this or a while
- What instrument are you playing?
- Well......
People
People
People
Poeple
Poeple
If you look them directly in the eyes, its the most bizzarre effect.
They're all at the exact same eye height
@@zackarhino17 Yes. That's was definitely deliberate.
There's an interesting phenomenon where if you align a bunch of face images and then flip through them quickly, the pattern recognition parts of the brain will basically make each face an exaggerated caricature based on the differences between the proportions from the previous face. There's been some pretty interesting research on this and it taps pretty deeply into how facial and pattern recognition in the brain works.
This video is a great exploration of that.
Yup. Look up the "flashed face distortion effect" for examples
It's really freaky and cool.
@@zackarhino17scvopttpiybhem scottplohgeim
I am honored to discover this gem before 17 years have passed.
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@@AlecCole-ue8yp Amazing and innovative stuff like this usually originates from RUclips's olden days. Most stuff that is akin to this is 13+ years old. At least, I think that's what OP is referring to.
I just realised it was released 9 days ago.
@@AlecCole-ue8ypbc this is the kind of video that ends up in your algorithm after a decade for some reason. Happens all the time on RUclips.
Mhm
Imagine watching this while being on psychedelics
I don't have to imagine it - I put it in my playlist for my next trip
@@heavenly2khave you results yet?
@@heavenly2koh?
bro I would want to imagine but this shit just showed up
@@heavenly2kresults???
This is what RUclips was known for: to show unique talents around the world.
ah yes, the ytp-sentence mixing approach to music
lol
NO
SMO
KING!
vocaloid but awesome
ytp Analog Horror
This comment had 444 likes, and 4 replies. i ruined it
the fact that you have been able to replicate an oscillator using only human vocal chops is something
This feels like something with 100 million views
from your lips to God's ears, thanks 🙏
Genuinely
Hasn't been 15 years yet, it'll get there
I'll leave my comment here before it happens
Same here i feel like in years this is gonna be one of the classics
This feels like a video made 14 years ago that has like 30 million views
RIGHT?!!
yeah and all the comments are a mix of ones for 5 months ago and 13 years ago
When you drag the preset slider around in a Bethesda game
I swear this video broke my brain to the point the faces looked like videogame heads more than actual human heads aa
Fr, it feels like some of the features are getting shuffled
This made me realize how much I missed the 'weird creativity' kinds of videos you'd see sometimes made in like the early-mid 2010's or late 2000's on RUclips. It's pure artistic insanity and I love this so much for that.
Yeah, reminds me of Cyriak, made a bunch of weird animations back in 2010s
@@aidaeggo5794cyriak is that type of channels and videos that terrifies you as a child that can't make you sleep for 7 days straight, like that alien screaming video. But when you rewatch it when you're older enough, it just a goofy video that you appreciated it and also don't know why your child self scared of that video
@@lalaj2887 hahah I have the opposite, where I was really fascinated as a child but then when I watched it later I realised damn this is kinda fucky haha
@@aidaeggo5794 elaborate "kinda fucky" that's just sound so wrong💀
@@lalaj2887 HAHA just means kinda fucked up
Lyrics:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
You forgot "hay" at 6:50
The quick brown for jumps over the lazy dog :||
You forgot “*telephone ringing*” 3:40
You forgot "shut uuuuuuu- uuuuuu- uuuuu-" 2:47
Apparently 4:53 is laughter-
“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” has been engraved in my past
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It took you to make me realise that the first part was to mean.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It’s a sentence that includes all of the letters of the alphabet
@@kittycatcutiexactly.
@@kittycatcuti in this video, both jumps and jumped are used
ok, more detailed thoughts
-there's genuine compositional prowess on display in this piece, the rhythmic intricacy, that metric ambiguity, the false polyphony, that lovely passage in the middle with the arpeggios, letting pieces of longer evolving sounds like that fellow with the deep bassy growl be shown to us in pieces
-the restraint, getting actors with a similar skin tone, letting them all blend together into one being, letting there be quiet uncomfortable moments like that first break, the stark commitment to monophonic dry voices
-and still being smart enough to break the pattern and allow the percussion to bleed over the monophonic voices!!!! the ding, etc
-beautiful beautiful demonstration of the effects of isolating tones to such a degree that they seem like synthesizers, tones with no beginning and no end, that one woman's whistle turning into a low battery smoke detector beep, yet still letting there be small moments where the full real time motion of the footage is made apparent, "SHUT"
-"hey, dog" yes hi
Wow, I'm so grateful for such a nuanced opinion. Thank you very, very much. 🙏
holy shit hi patricia
Ayy it’s Patricia taxxon
hi dog,
i knew i would see the dog here
My taste in music isn’t that weird…
My taste in music:
Dam
Frums ahh music
I don't think this video is music, you know?
@@Zaraaashiigal Why not?
@@Roni_mcconi frumssss!
It’s crazy how your brain accepts that you’re seeing a singular entity who’s face keeps changing instead of just clips of different people spliced together
I think this is what it must feel like to meet an angel
Infected Mushroom really started getting experimental this year
W refrence
they changed the formality with this one 🗣️
now i know how people in 1981 felt when laurie anderson released “o superman”
Oh my Jesus Christ! Thank you! 🙏❤️
haha this is a great comparison. I heard O Superman first time last year and read about it's significance, but i was somewhat surprised for such a (now) simple concept to have such an impact. some art is made in just the right time right place. of course there's beauty in it's simplicity as well, it's concise message and tone
LMFAO
i cant believe this comment is how i was introduced to o superman but thank you so much for introducing me either way,
We live in an unnatural time where people are products, it's important to see the beauty in each person's uniqueness
We've ALWAYS been products.
wait until you discover this is exactly what the situationists said
@@XohjaiSbarkeater Its why humanism is such an important concept, even if its a relatively new concept
@@XohjaiSbarkeater How?
@CULTURESHOCK3643 It got better, but recently its been getting worse
This is basically stop motion music
Dare anyone to maintain eye contact with this video the whole time
last bit is almost scary if you really focus on the eyes all the way through
Better yet, dare an autistic person with eye contact struggles to do so.
what about the times there arent people?
@@jawzwix what about them
@@jawzwix that’s when he carried you.
This video is terrifying, I love it
Edit: I can’t stop imagining a shapeshifter being held captive by a bunch of people with object heads constantly changing forms trying to escape their constantly changing shape but failing and then this happened while the object head just made sick beats out of it
*gasp*
People lore.
by the end all the faces were morphed together in my vision
the effect i got was that they just. stopped registering to me as real people faces and just became Images Of Things in a. kind of unnerving sense
Really great “simulation” of prosopagnosia/face blindness in my opinion, too! The weird shifting really gets across the feeling of faces just not sticking in a way that I’ve never really seen visually represented in a good way before. Also objectively just a banger, I genuinely can’t believe it’s almost 10 minutes long
It's like watching a sentient ai try to mimic human speech and structure while slowly killing itself.
My brain at 3AM when I’m trying to sleep.
it's currently 3am and im trying to sleep 🧍
Shut aa a a a a. a a a. a. a a. aa. a a a ae. ee e e e e. e xzz z z z z a a a. a a. ooooo shut a a a a a a
e e xi e e xi over the lazy dog
*aaaaaaaaaa*
ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ👹
ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ👹
ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ👹
this feels like someone's first time making music but they're the most talented musician of our time
The editor might actually be him
13 Days ago? this feels like a hidden jem someone would make 13 / 11 years ago.
for all the "impressive" AI generative art coming out, this is so much more satisfying and artistically interesting. it feels intricately hand built like Koka's little music boxes. great piece.
Wow, thank you!
This is seriously great, creative, original and satisfying
What? The description says it's made by someone not ai I'm confused
@@MakoNextnot original if it's AI
@@Stick_and_stone it's not made by ai
Why can't RUclips understand this is what they were built on. Recommend more of this to me.
I think this goes to show that the human character of voice comes with the way it starts and ends. When you isolate just the middle of each voice, you can easily create unnatural, computerised sounds.
You ever have a computer crash in the middle of playing a video or song or something like that? It reminds me of that kind of sound.
Waveforms are waveforms. Not being sarcastic, but that’s crazy to think about.
At some point, my brain directly stopped understanding and just went with the flow of the piece
I like how "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" is the phrase you get written in some of the documents you dowload as part of a downloading a new font because it shows the font on all letters of the alphabet. Im not really able to interpret a work as esoteric as this lol but i feel like maybe the choice relates to the idea that the people in the video are a snapshot of a wide range of people, like they are a swatch or sample of possible humans.
this feels like an eldritch being, you see it, you hear it, yet you cannot comprehend what it is
wow. as a fan of aphex twin and similar electronic music, being able to generate similarly complex and multifaceted compositions, but with this funny, unnerving connective tissue you've made yourself is so impressive
6:00 This part hit me so damn well. His silence is louder than any noises.
this is the changing-your-entire-perspective-on-art kind of awesome
Oh Jesus Christ! Thank you 🙏
Remember me in 10 years when it gets recommended again
I will remind you
ha
this is incredible
omg patricia taxxon!! hiii
Holy shit hello again Patricia!!!
Of course you would be here ❤
omg! omg! haii haiii patricia!! :D
oh awesome
How the guy progresses each sample slightly to the point where it’s hard to notice visually but you can only hear it (for example the deep voice guy slowly opening his mouth from 1:40) is pure genius. I can’t stop listening.
Please, let this video get a million views.
This feels like it should have its own room with a projector in the MoMA
The fact that you edited this on a *Macbook* is crazy to me. Not only that, this piece somehow manages to fool me into thinking there's more than one sound playing at once. It's wild. Thanks for this. It's making me smile.
This is what MacBook is made for man! I’m sure many movies have been made on MacBooks, though a regular Mac computer would be more powerful of course
This is one of those videos where I really want to see the behind the scenes/bloopers of the project
I've been looking for this video for months ever since it entered my recommendations, I knew the title but it was too ambiguous to show up on search results lol, thank goodness it appeared in my recommended again
I realised I might have face blindness today. This is the closest I’ve seen anything outside of my head to how faces look when I try to remember them. Cool project, executed perfectly!
this is gonna be in someone recommendations in like 12 years
This had me in a trance for the first 2mins and a half until I managed to rip my eyes away to write this comment
Just finished watching, this was a whole experience. This genuinely has me left with conflicting emotions (interest/curiosity and terror)
This feels like what you would visualize the noise as if you were in a coma with some brain damage and you couldn’t hear the quick brown fox part symbolizes them saying everything they can to you and eventually the screaming is when you wake up or die
I love human music
Same here
Cant believe I almost ignored this video
もっと注目されるべき。
何故かBohemian rhapsodyを彷彿とさせました。
After a while, you just go "yes" and stop questioning, to just appreciate.
The arpeggi-ish section that starts at 4:51 has to be my favorite. I can't comprehend how much work has gone into this whole project, but it's definitely outstanding and deserves recognition
I feel I have transcended reality.
This was one of the most bracing and confronting pieces of music I've come across in a long time. Really wrapped a rope 'round my attention and dared me to look away. An egregore of sound. Stunning work.
This is one of those videos you find years after it was posted and just sit there wondering if you’re dreaming
Double comment to say, it's rare to find something highly experimental that is also a joy to listen to. This feels fun and playful, while also challenging and engaging!
Yep, I agree
I’ve often wondered how people from hundreds of years ago would feel if they encountered modern music. Now, I know. They would feel how I’m feeling now. I love this. Thank you.
👏👏👏lining the eyeballs up with eachother makes this perfect
🙏🎈
@@nikoladze Did you guys correct it in post, or did you just position the camera really, really precisely? If in post, how?
Replying to this so i can see the response too. @@meltingmug
Look at the description @@lol5776
@@meltingmug I first did my best to align the faces while shooting, which turned out to be next to impossible. I had set up a monitor with a grid in front of the singers, so that they could self-align. I used an ikea chair with some books to adjust the height, but the moment they made a sound or looked away, they moved. Conclusion - humans have to move. So I spent the whole sampling week on my knees behind the singers with my hand on their back trying to realign them to the grid while they were sampling the material. Then after I was done composing, I did two passes of manual adjustment, shifting each individual clip max 50px XY to better align the left eyeball, took a week to adjust in fcpx.
I cant stop watching this and staring at the eyes, its like watching several people morph into one
Sometimes a video/thumbnail comes up on the feed, drawing only the slightest glance, but somehow beaming beneath the subtlety and silently screaming with intrigue... "this one." And it seems too unlikely that something seen only a few thousand times could actually be one of /those/, the imperative works of art that reshape your mind and immediately alter the trajectory of your day. It's often not, of course. But sometimes it is. And after a moment, it sets in how easily it could have been missed, and how often others likely are missed.
I'm glad I clicked on this one.
imagine this being the first video aliens ever see of humanity
All the years I've put into trying to program music and this is what it all boils down to.
as a professional musician and editor, this film is criminally underrated, seriously
I was here before this artwork blows up in 12 years
I'm here to remember what this year was 2024 (for future generations)
Same ,:D
me 2
same
why do i get recommended this every two months
i genuinely could not look away this was so intriguing and horrifying while somehow beautiful
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Over the lazy-
Over the lazy-
Over the lazy dog.
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
...
Dog.
...
[Verse 2]
*silent* a- a- a- *moderately silent* a- A- A- *loud* AAAAAAA-
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy do-
āāāāĀÁ
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
^
(sad tone)
Over the lazy-
Over the lazy-
Over the lazy dog (sad tone)
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
Lēæzi-
dooòò
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĀ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
*hitting a pan sound effect*
ŒÆĒ-
[Verse 3]
Shh- A
Shh- A
Shh- A
Sh-dog.
Lazy-
Lazy-
Dog.
[Verse 4]
Quick br- Ä-Ä-ouwn-
Fox jumped over the- se- ēēē
Ou- e-è-ë
u- u- Quickbrow-OUUU-n
Fox jumped over the- se- ēēē.
Hm- hehe- quick brown fox jumped over the se- ēēē
Over the se-
Over the se-
Do- se
Do- se
Do- se
Do- se
Do- se
Just continue in the comments.
Oh jesus, wow!
This was hard to watch at first after the polyphony kicked in; staring into each performer's rapidly shifting eyes just evoked a deep feeling of unease. I powered through that feeling and after it went away, this was incredible to get lost in. The time and effort you and the performers put into this was well worth it
The fact I kept ignoring this video nd it KEPT getting recommended to me was so funny to me but GOD RUclips knows me and what I like too well
Compelling visually and sonically. Hypnotic. Like a dream that’s unsettling yet you don’t want to wake up from.
Much appreciation to all involved. I will be watching this again.
"mooom....i think dad's broken again!"
Gotta be one of the weirdest, yet coolest thing I've got recommended which is NOT trending yet! The editing must've been a pain but the result is just stunning.
Whether it's a dream to go viral or not, you really have a lot of potential. Definitely worth a sub, let's hope I'll encounter this channel in the future again.
this gives me so much joy and i can't explain why but i'm sitting in bed giggling at people making noise and it's very cathartic
staring at the eyes the whole duration is so weird, midway though the video transformed to be sort of like Disco Elysium's art style and near the end, when theyre all screaming, i got an vibe of stop motion clay animation from it, just add things i noticed lol
This feels like it came out 10 years ago and has 10 million views.
Wonderful! So much work has gone into this, I hope this video gets the eyes and ears it deserves.
Woah, I love your music! Crazy seeing you here on this side of RUclips
'Sup Oliver! Weird finding you on suck an obscure video lol. How's life?
Seriously, it must've been so much effort to edit and produce.
Also no way its oliver buckland
I can feel my brain disintegrating in my head
Just the video or just the audio alone would be pretty amazing. Together, it's a masterpiece!
gonna tell my kids this is the beatles
I love that it has an Electric sound despite being only acoustic voices (and like, three instruments). Such a masterpiece of word! Very well done!
jesus the work that went into this i cant imagine. all for one of the strangest, most intriguing videos ive ever seen
engagement! interaction! a comment so more people see this masterwork! for the almighty algo, up you go!
This video had me genuinely transfixed. As someone who's attention span has been obliterated by the internet it was an incredible feeling to just have an art piece 'take over' my brain. I just sat there, intrigued, sometimes filled with anxiety, and took it in. Absolutely incredible work.
Ah yes. Vocal math noisepunk
i'm impressed. The rhythm sounds impressive. I've never heard anything like this!!❤
What a crazy find. It feels like old RUclips. Excellent work!
This gonna be recommended randomly after 10 years for sure.
I've never maintained eye contact for so long, damn
Suprised this was only made with final cut you'd expect this to be made in a daw
Right, unfortunately all daws I'm working with, including Reaper crush under the weight of 4K 10-bit video material. But then if you think about it, Final Cut is a great basic DAW or rather DAVO, you can sequence, you can layer, even apply effects, and usually that's more than I need to compose.
6:50 scared the crap out of me.
Dude, this is so cool. I can't imagine how much time this took and I can't believe I sat through the whole video. Bravo.
Hey dawg
hey!
i found this video a couple months ago, keep coming back. i want to know more about the thought process behind making this… extremely interesting
LOL at the kid's screech at the end, this was awesome. The way you composed it sounds like a manual tracker, sooo tedious but worth it.
i feel like im being indoctrinated into a strange cult where people summon quick brown foxes with the ability of jumping over lazy dogs with kitchenware and cardboard boxes
cant wait until youtube recommends this to people after a couple of years
i give it 6 or 7
wacky boss theme representing psychedelics in an indie rpgmaker game
It's been eight days. I am officially ready to announce that i am addicted to this video.
That... was certainly one of the experiences of all times.
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