Intercontinental!

Ok, so i really need to start keeping this thing a bit more updated.. Since our last encounter much has happened in the Whiskas world, the most exciting of which perhaps being a new collaboration with Different is Different Records in Brazil. I will be making a one-minute short to celebrate and promote the release of each of their records in the upcoming months, starting with the fantastic 'Drumcomplex' by Gomme. This is a really exciting project for me as it means i can really go a bit wild and experiment, mess about with any new techniques i may have learnt or any ideas i might have that are perhaps just a bit too far fetched for a full length piece. Anyway, i've started (at last) learning Cinema 4D and here is the result...

'Gomme' -Drumcomplex from WhiskasFX on Vimeo.

Also, please have a look at DID records site and support our friends over the Atlantic!

http://www.didrec.com/

Series Features...

The Max Cooper videos are now up on Autotube...

http://www.audiotube.com/artist/2169-max-cooper.html

Chaotisch Serie

This is the final video for Max Cooper's 'Serie's. Its loosely based around the emergence of life from mathematics through chaos. The track is carries Max's trademark grandeur and i tried to reflect this in the video, basically by going a bit balls out, if you excuse the colloquialism. I think it reflects a clear progression over the last year and a half since the first video, really getting to grips at working with particles as well as little tricks for making the whole thing look good which where otherwise lost to me when i first started this trilogy. My research into fractals and natural patterns for this video led me to discover the mandlebulb, which i assure you is incredible - a 3d mandlebrot fractal in essence. Here, http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/12/13/mandelbulb, you can read and see abit more about it. I just wish i had more time to use it better, the sheer processing required to use it with After Effects meant it was very difficult to control or work with the cameras effectively. Apparently one should use a GSLS shader, but i really wouldn't know where to begin. Finally, i do think the final render above became a little over-saturated but i can live with that.

Anyway, i'm pleased with the outcome and already we are looking at a good deal of online coverage as well as the possibility of it being showed on German TV....

Stoch - Press!..

Some real positive feedback from the recent Max Cooper video including coverage on two of the worlds most respected online electronic music communities - Resident Advisor and Beatportal.

Check out the Beatportal article here:

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/how-electronic-musics-matrix-may-look/

...And the full interview here:

http://www.the-x-agency.com/maxcooper/newsletter-nov09.htm

Max Cooper - Stochastisch Serie

Max Cooper - Stochastisch Serie from WhiskasFX on Vimeo.

Inspired by notions of randomness and un-determinability, Stochastisch Serie by Max Cooper is another dancefloor growler baring his trademark melodic brooding sentiment and frequent reference to the world of science.
I have tried to reflect such ideas in this animation; physics simulation, random particle interaction, and perhaps an element of the mysterious.
I hope you like it x

Stochastic Serie by Max Cooper is out Nov 2nd on Traum.

WhiskasFX 2009 Showreel

WhiskasFx Showreel 2009 from WhiskasFX on Vimeo.

Better late than never, a collection of some of my favorite bits to date. Thanks to everyone who has commissioned work from me and collaborated with me, here's to another year..

Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie

Released in January 2009 this is my first piece of commercial work for an artist; Max Cooper (Traum) Its a dark and brooding kind of affair and like so much of Max's work, it maintains a kind of musicality that to many might seem a long way from what is traditionally considered techno. We spent a long time throwing ideas about, and soon found a common ground in our intrigue for the invisible connections science and maths have with our world - not only the world of art and music but also that with we live in day to day. It was this unspoken beauty in the mundane that i tried to get across here.

I felt i was unable to fully realise this idea as i had hoped, however as i intend to be able to present a final version - if only for my own satisfaction - in the near future.

Mr Cooper and i continue to collaborate..