Cubepusher

May 14, 2015 12:40 PM

The video for Squarepusher's ‘Stor Eiglass’ is an immersive psychedelic VR extravaganza (see video description for full details) Creative Review on the making of
posted by fearfulsymmetry (15 comments total)

Is 4K totally borked for anyone else?
posted by rollbiz at 12:52 PM on May 14, 2015

Ｒｕｓｈｎｅｒｄ
This right here is the future of music videos

There's something so wrong about that.
posted by yerfatma at 1:04 PM on May 14, 2015 [2 favorites]

If this was up your alley, I highly recommend catching the current live show for the new album. There are videos I could link to, but it would be a shame to watch them and feel like you understand what it's all about. On a state-of-the-art club soundsystem, with massive synesthetic visuals crowding your field of vision, the newest tracks are sublime. There's sooo much going on that your brain just kind of shuts down and you become a puddle of goo.
posted by naju at 1:15 PM on May 14, 2015 [3 favorites]

I saw this the other day from Warp's feed. It's a very interesting way to make a music video in the post-MTV age — but mainly I want to know how it works, so thanks!
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:21 PM on May 14, 2015

Oh god Squarepusher's live shows are amazing now. If you saw him back in the early 2000s when it was just a guy with a bass plugged into a server rack, it is very much not that anymore.
posted by griphus at 1:30 PM on May 14, 2015 [2 favorites]

Just a guy with a bass plugged into a server rack is something I would enjoy though
posted by mike_bling at 1:55 PM on May 14, 2015 [5 favorites]

Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit but I was probably a bit annoyed at that show from having watched Luke Vibert on a laptop playing solitaire for all I know for about two hours as the opener.
posted by griphus at 1:57 PM on May 14, 2015 [3 favorites]

I spent the entire video looking at my meatneck.
posted by boo_radley at 2:25 PM on May 14, 2015

mike_bling: "Just a guy with a bass plugged into a server rack is something I would enjoy though"

Variation on a theme
posted by rhizome at 2:53 PM on May 14, 2015

I really enjoyed watching the video as plain ol' 2D without any glasses or anything. The distortions to fit the entire field of view into a rectangle were neat in the same way as Blinky, a hack that lets you play Quake with different 360º projections.

It's like, screw stereo vision, I can see ALL AROUND ME ALL THE TIME.
posted by egypturnash at 2:54 PM on May 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

How do I do this video. I need future now.
posted by Annika Cicada at 4:43 PM on May 14, 2015

Oh god Squarepusher's live shows are amazing now.

Well according to his web site he ain't coming nowhere near this hemisphere anytime soon. Oh well, Baltang Ort is definitely my new jam.
posted by fungible at 5:23 PM on May 14, 2015

Wait - looking at fungible's link - is it possible that he's actually just uploaded a shit ton of his albums onto youtube? Like completely for free? I suppose maybe there's some monetization scheme that I'm not seeing since I have adblock?
posted by symbioid at 5:29 PM on May 14, 2015

Well according to his web site he ain't coming nowhere near this hemisphere anytime soon.

According to the Movement website, he is going to be at Movement in Detroit on May 25. I'm very seriously thinking about going that day just for him.

http://movement.us/assets/images/2015schedule.pdf
posted by angryostrich at 7:19 AM on May 15, 2015

If you don't happen to have a VR headset lying around, the video can also be viewed as a iPhone app. the phone acts as a window into the world, moving it changes one's view.
posted by Durhey at 9:08 AM on May 16, 2015