The echo of a distant time

December 1, 2022 9:58 PM

A deeply trippy A.I. generated music video for a shortened sixteen-and-a-half minute cut of Pink Floyd's track Echoes (original track was twenty-three-and-a-half minutes) from their album Meddle. Be sure to watch at a high resolution.
posted by Hot Pastrami! (16 comments total)

Deeply trippy is right. Is there a word or phase for “having a mild anxiety attack, except neutral to good instead of terrible”? That was sort of how watching this felt, in part. Remarkable. I have negative interest in VR, but I cannot imagine what being immersed in that video would do to someone.
posted by pkingdesign at 11:52 PM on December 1, 2022

Live at Pompeii is a little easier on the eyes.
posted by Chuffy at 11:59 PM on December 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

Sound and fury
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 3:08 AM on December 2, 2022

And me without any shrooms.
posted by zardoz at 3:19 AM on December 2, 2022 [1 favorite]

Be sure to watch at a high resolution.

Haha, I see what you did there.
posted by rikschell at 4:42 AM on December 2, 2022 [3 favorites]

I cannot tell from the comments whether I should watch this or not.
posted by obfuscation at 5:54 AM on December 2, 2022 [1 favorite]

Oh, wow.
posted by ob1quixote at 7:12 AM on December 2, 2022

I’m not sure if something like an image in four or five dimensions exists, but with this it feels like I can almost start to imagine it.
posted by rudster at 7:18 AM on December 2, 2022 [2 favorites]

Live at Pompeii is a little easier on the eyes.

Indeed. Pompeii is perfection. It needs no new interpretation.

That being said.. this shit looks insane! Funny how some parts of it look like the original Gerald Scarfe screen animation from the concerts.
posted by Liquidwolf at 7:53 AM on December 2, 2022

Awesome stuff!

If it were me I'd be tempted to make it throw some Phantom of the Opera references in there just for giggles.
posted by Foosnark at 8:10 AM on December 2, 2022 [1 favorite]

It doesn’t appear to have any relationship to the music. I will confess that for me AI means Always Inane.
posted by njohnson23 at 8:58 AM on December 2, 2022 [3 favorites]

Will have to find a time to view later when at a computer.

Sidenote: I seem to have developed a kneejerk antipathy to all things AI these days. It's an unfortunate bias because it's making me turn away from a lot of things, some of which are no doubt sincere, thoughtful, well-designed, and cool.
posted by splitpeasoup at 9:25 AM on December 2, 2022

Yes. This is trippy fun!
posted by OHenryPacey at 9:32 AM on December 2, 2022

We're still in the "spinning wireframe teapot" phase -- wait until artists get their hands on an actual suite of tools beyond random Colab notebooks and Discord downloads.
posted by credulous at 12:59 PM on December 2, 2022 [2 favorites]

Saved this to watch at home on our giant projector and sound system with my husband. Loved it! We’re both curious about the process of how this was generated. There’s just… so much!
posted by obfuscation at 4:30 AM on December 3, 2022

This was incredible...so much going on. I'll have to watch it at least twice more to even begin to feel like I've seen everything...
posted by schyler523 at 6:43 AM on December 19, 2022