We're fans of Tom Adams' music for a long time and through a happy accident, Thomas met him in 2023. He liked our visual work and we talked about a possible collaboration.
In early 2024 this came to fruition when Tom was about to release a new album on Moderna Records. We selected the song "Lines" since it spoke to us deeply, with the soft piano tones and the ethereal vocal part.
We tried to find a good balance to support the very calm and fragile sound and voice, not overwhelming it but backing the emotion and · hopefully · adding another layer to it.
At the time, we were evaluating VVVV as a realtime graphics environment and decided to create the video with the FUSE particle engine extension.
We love this kind of visual programming with nodes (see the screenshot below), it is much more intuitive for us than writing code.
The album came out on Friday 5th of April 2024 on Moderna Records:
Tom Adams: Golden Waves - remixes and b sides
Find many other fantastic releases from Tom Adams on his own label Oceantemple.
Be sure to at least listen into "Silence" and "In the Constant Noise", but it's all beautiful.
You can also watch the video on YouTube in higher resolution:
· Tom Adams: Lines ·