Breakdown: Noah + Aakarsh worked on music mainly. Aakarsh made pt2,3,6,7,8 while Noah made pt 4,5. Nicholas made all the visual effects while the group decided the videos+text to be displayed mostly together.
Audio
The music is inspired by various hyperpop, dariacore, digicore and other internet-originated microgenres. The album’s Dariacore, Dariacore 2, Dariacore 3 by artist Leroy were particularly the inspirations in mind. People on the internet jokingly describe Dariacore as maxxed out plunderphonics and the ADHD-esque hyper intensity of the genre couple with meme-culture infused pop sampling was what particularly attracted me and noah. While originally starting as a Dariacore project, this 8-track project eventually ended up spanning multiple genres to provide narrative arcs and various downtempo-uptempo sections. This concept is inspired by Machine Girl’s うずまき (Uzumaki) , a song that erratically cuts between starkly different music genres and emotional feels. We wanted our piece to have a combination of this song’s composition and a DJ set as our composition. Here’s a description of the various sections: Here’s a description of various sections:
Pt 1: Midwest Emo Family guy + Girls want Girls + 808 Mafia and Metro Boomin Producer tags
Pt 2: Girls Want Girls + Trap (?) drums
Pt 3: Toosie Slide + Jersey Club drums and sfx
Pt 4: Nujabes’ kodama[interlude] + 1980s News 12 Long Island Broadcast + Westside Gunn adlibs
Pt 5: Eightiesheadachetape’s the bowling alley + Playboi Carti’s Long Time – Intro + Pierre Bourne Producer tag + Think Break
Pt 6: Bad Bunny’s Dakiti + Captain Sparklez’s Revenge + Taylor Swift’s Love Story + Baile Funk Drums
Pt 7: Taylor Swift -> Justin Bieber’s Love Yourself Ambient
Pt 8: Playboi Carti’s Shoota + PinkPantheress’s Boy Is A Liar + Crystal Castles’s Kept + Lil Uzi’s Just Wanna Rock + Khaleeji Drums
Viz
For the visuals, we wanted to incorporate pop culture references and find the border between insanity and craziness. We use a combination of real people, anime, and NYUAD references to keep the viewer guessing what’ll come next. I tried to get around Hydra’s restrictions when it comes to videos by developing my own FloatingVideo class that enabled us to play videos in p5 that we could put over our visuals. I also found a lot of use in the blend and layer functions that allowed us to combine different videos and sources onto the canvas.