Warning: Chris Ianuzzi’s Latest Track ‘Edge of the Earth’ Could Take You to the Edge of Sanity [Video]

With publish trendy music as it’s, it may well typically really feel like the extra experimental artists amongst us are pushed just by the want to make their subsequent work weirder than the final one. That actually appears to be one of the drivers for the notorious New York composer/producer, Chris Ianuzzi, who’s bought the “weird for the sake of weird” market cornered. With his newest experiental/ambient/techno/noisecore/publish punk/IDM/whatever-other-genre-he-could-jam-in-there observe and video, “Edge of the Earth,” that driver is actually out in full power.

Ianuzzi, like many experimental producers, at the beginning loves his science. Listening to virtually any of his work, it’s apparent he likes to tinker and has performed with so many manufacturing strategies over the course of his discography, it virtually beggars perception. In his most up-to-date piecemeal launched album, Maze, he labored closely inside Dolby Atmos manufacturing, creating spine-tingling outcomes with the tracks like “Sweet Over Time,” “Hunger” and the a number of award-winning “Lonesome Highway Superstar.”

After an interstitial foray into a form of publish punk/industrial/lure territory with the comparatively chilled out “Silent Sea,” “Edge of the Earth” sees Ianuzzi again on his po-mo shit with an virtually untrackable non-format to his composition. With an intro that appears like the sonic equal of a lava lamp and serves solely to lull the listener right into a false sense of safety, Ianuzzi unleashes experimental hell from a seemingly arbitrary level as the first phase of the observe rolls out, sounding like a nightmare model of Ross’s “sound” from Friends, earlier than a ghost of a beat is established to type of reign in the eerie, howled lyrics and runaway synths. Even the beat construction doesn’t linger wherever for too lengthy, nonetheless, so don’t get used to the offset breakbeat or lifeless techno drums as they begin and cease simply as randomly as the rest on this observe. The impact is, certainly, as if a mad scientist on acid invaded and took out the DJ at a cybergoth rave. Difficult to make sense of while not on acid? Yes. Easy to recognize the genius of the composition? Also sure.

In case the audio for “Edge of the Earth” wasn’t trippy sufficient, Chris Ianuzzi continued his experimentation with AI animation for the video. Using Stable Diffusion and Deforum AI 3D Animation Pipeline, Ianuzzi collaborated with movie artists Ethem Serkan Sökmen and illke to create this cease motion-effect video that bends actuality even additional and is an ideal praise to the observe. It takes the viewers on a journey by means of a mess of worlds and kind of creates a narrative out of the insanity of the observe. Don’t learn an excessive amount of into the potential symbolism, nonetheless; it’s seemingly extra usually Dadaist in nature than viewers might understand, in accordance to Ianuzzi.

The Lemons in the Edge of The Earth cowl have been made as a result of I used to be taking part in with concepts with the the program Dall-e. Someone walked by and stated, “you should try adding Lemmings.” I assumed she stated “Lemons.” Whoops. I actually appreciated the consequence. We had to put lemons in the video too.

Humor apart, the tune and video will not be with out their meanings, as Ianuzzi virtually at all times places some kind of political or social assertion into his work.

The tune and video are impressed by the state of our planet with regards to the political in addition to the pure  atmospheric situations that we live in.  It all appears to be like like the apocalypse, virtually biblical at instances. It’s troublesome not to really feel this when watching the information.

Structure masked as chaos, social consciousness out of Dadaist and Surrealist artwork, it’s all enterprise as common in the visionary thoughts of Chris Ianuzzi. It’s essential to cease and recognize work like his, particularly in the pop-soaked EDM world, as that is this type of stuff that pushes music ahead. To that finish, if nothing else, “Edge of the Earth” is a glance into and a commentary on the place artists can now go together with AI and different advancing instruments. The “Edge of the Earth” may not be a literal edge, however a notion boundary that we at the moment are pushing by means of with these expanded capabilities. Only time – and artists like Ianuzzi – will inform.

“Edge of the Earth” is out now can might be streamed with the relaxation of his discography on Chris Ianuzzi’s Spotify web page. Check out his YouTube as nicely for extra trippy and poignant movies.