HereYee makes big sounds, raw, beautifully orchestral electronic music, and, at times, banging underground sounds. We’ve worked with Alan for a long time now on many of his musical projects, and this one is the one we’re most proud of—because of its brutal simplicity.
We knew we wanted to create something directly shaped by the music and influenced by the minimal artworks we admire from Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly—both about reduction, colour and form. So, we gave each part of each track, stabs, bass, strings, etc., individual graphic lines, weight, and colour shaped by their frequency—and only visible when the musical parts are audible, resulting in animations where the audio creates the visuals. We had no idea how this would turn out, but we decided to go for it and trust the process. The result is a series of raw animations, a madness that makes sense of the music. These experiments then informed how the static work looks; the adapted concept here is that the lines appear in the order of the parts on the audio timeline, glitches and all.
Expansive audio defines how and where restrained visuals appear in both media. There’s something pure about this idea that just works with this record.
