Chris Ianuzzi and his creative team of Serkan and ilke have crafted the perfect visualization for his song “Edge of the Earth.” Utilizing Stable Diffusion and Deforum AI SD Animation Pipeline, the music video looks like something Dash Shaw might use for his next animated film. After seeming to take a portal into the world inside the box of a set of synthesizer rigs, we see a group of people seemingly attending a deeply psychedelic live musical event with glowing mushroom trees and glowing sky objects with an ever shifting landscape with planets rising on the horizon and flowing architecture and coastline and colors and settings rapidly manifesting and evolving. The music itself sounds a little like a synth pop song as written by Coil working with Edward Ka-Spel. The combination is like multimedia uncanny valley and both menacing and entrancing. Unsettling and calming. In its endless use of patterns and color alongside sonics both textural and tonal, distorted and smoothly melodic the song and the video stimulate your brain in ways that a song and visuals crafted another way might not. And in the end we leave that universe through the aforementioned array of synthesizers into a tranquil exit. At a time when a a lot of psychedelic music feels pretty safe and rote this is the opposite of that. Watch the video for “Edge of the Earth” on YouTube and follow Chris Ianuzzi at the links below.
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