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'Movement Maps' by Max Cooper, Jazer Giles, Kevin McGloughlin, Emma Rosenzweig-Bock and Jacob Jonas

Max Cooper:
"Movement Maps brings together different forms of movement and mappings: human, organic and inorganic movement are combined via scenes from "Weakness of the Flesh" dance collar project, meeting Jazer Giles rigid pixel sorting and exploratory Physarum algorithms from "Leaving this Place" (https://youtu.be/kdQuFdlfStk). And the music, vocals, dance, and both films, are mapped to a new hybrid form as part of the "Maps" EP project. 

Maps EP came about almost by accident when I get involved with the original dance project by the Jacob Jonas company. It started with the choreography of Jacob Jonas and the resulting dance from Emma Rosenzweig-Bock which was turned into a short film by Kevin McGloughlin which I then scored to, and Samad Khan made a vocal interpretation of, as part of the "Weakness of the Flesh" project (https://youtu.be/YzS0d9K1Xs0).

That process spawned many other ideas for me, and I became interested in the act of mapping between all of the different creative mediums involved, all of us delivering some shared intangible vibe through our own chosen form of expression. I thought it would be nice to explore that idea further, leading to the other pieces and visual projects on the Maps EP. 

This final "Movement Maps" experiment from that EP building process, is a further development of the original "Weakness of the Flesh" music and film to something even more abstracted, taking the human and acoustic elements into algorithmic realms. There was a power and intensity in Samad's voice which was crying out for a more intense electronic treatment that wouldn't have fitted the original film, so I explored that musically first, and then worked with Jazer Giles on the visual approach using the same principles - mapping ideas from one project to another to see what could emerge. It came out quite mad visually, there's a lot to discover in there, I hope you enjoy it."


Jazer Giles:
"Integrating Emma, Jacob, and Kevin’s world with the generative landscapes in my work was both fascinating and challenging. Their film, which presents its own complex language of spatial and temporal orientation, pushed against the edges of my mathematically evolving structures. Max’s music provided an amazing substrate on which both visions could thrive. 

The generative algorithms are very similar to the processes utilized in “Leaving This Place”. For this video, some of the parameters were mapped to audio and applied non-linearly in colorspace so that new hues could emerge from a relatively small palette."


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Credits:
Direction: Max Cooper
Animation by Jazer Giles
Choreography by Jacob Jonas
Featuring Emma Rosenzweig-Bock
Music & Sound Design by Max Cooper
Director of Photography Susan Boyte
Original Video Edit by Kevin McGloughlin

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