Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - Teotihuacan Part 2 - Visuals by Dugan Hammock
It’s utterly absorbing, but also soothing (probably because of the mostly ambient score) and almost hypnotic.
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Part of Max Cooper and Tom Hodge’s Emergence project, Teotihuacan Part 2 is simple in concept and gorgeous in execution. Or at least as simple anything involving higher dimensions of space can be. Backed by Cooper and Hodge’s composition, the video rotates a four-dimensional object through three-dimensional space, represented on a two-dimensional monitor. From that (relatively) simple action, complex patterns emerge, getting increasingly intricate as the piece evolves. It’s utterly absorbing, but also soothing (probably because of the mostly ambient score) and almost hypnotic. Yes, it says something that it took a mathematician to create the code that made the video possible, but it makes sense, given that so much of modern math is about how complexity emerges from simple rules, and the beauty that can result.
dir. Max Cooper
music. Tom Hodge
visuals. Dugan Hammock
syn. This ambient piece usually appears early in Emergence. It's a demonstration of the beauty of dimensionality: specifically, how strange and appealing shapes are created when we rotate 4-dimensional structures.
If forms part of the live show where we look at the fundamental building blocks of our reality, from which the familiar world around us can emerge. It's a simple process, but like many other such fundamentals of nature, is also surprisingly beautiful.
The Emergence live show and album project are dedicated to these phenomena, and the story of creation from a scientific perspective, which are long term interests of mine.
2016