Max Cooper - Ascent (Official video by Martin Krzywinski)

► Subscribe to channel: ► Buy merch ’Unspoken Words’ on vinyl and Blu-ray: ► Sign up & join Discord: MAX COOPER: This audio-visual project with Martin Krzywinski came from site specific feelings and ideas. Initially St Michielskerk Leuven, and then Herodes Atticus amphitheatre at the Acropolis in Athens, where the project had its first two outings into the world. I was trying to capture the uncapturable idea of transcendence. It needed to ascend further than anything I had made before. I tried to keep it as simple as possible to focus on the power of what would yield that experience, the synth chords and timbre. I kept the chord progression fairly loose so as not to fall into obvious repeats, and constantly modulated it higher as the many layers of screaming distortion built along with some bass wave interference which gives some extra low body shaking effect if