THE OCTOPUS PROJECT HEXADECAGON FREE DOWNLOAD

They wanted to completely surround the audience with sound and vision — total immersion. The band members quickly realized that in order to achieve their creative vision, they would need more than the standard two-channel stereo audio and single projection. Using custom electronics The Bend Matrix and pushing existing software Ableton Live , VDMX , OSCulator to its limits, the band spent the next three months writing songs specifically for an eight-channel surround sound system and shooting video footage with Austin digital artist Wiley Wiggins. Buzzing from the performance, the band spent the next two months putting the songs to tape in their home studio, then mixed in Dallas with John Congleton St. This, more than any previous release by The Octopus Project, feels like an album in the truest sense.

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One Ten Hundred Thousand Million. But the band was still in search of something bigger. The Octopus Project's fourth album began as an experimental performance piece written for a octopuus eight-channel audio, eight-screen video integrated surround system.

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The Octopus Project "Hexadecagon"

Download codes are included, and the album spans three sides of the gatefold LP. Video footage posted by FunnySalmon15via Brooklyn Vegan. I am the Senate. Overhead, the music was accompanied by eight synchronized video projections. This, more than projext previous release by The Octopus Project, feels like an album in the truest sense.

Hexadecagon | The Octopus Project

Buzzing from the performance, the band spent the next two months putting the songs to hexadceagon in their home studio, then mixed in Dallas with John Congleton St. Already known for concise blasts of experimental pop and a vibrant stage presence, The Octopus Project wanted to ooctopus a deeper sound, a more enveloping experience.

Limited pressing of copies. In latethe band took some time off from touring to start writing new material and tinkering with electronics, and Hexadecagon began to take shape. It's not so much eight distinct songs as one epic suite with mood swings. Dreamy, intimate folk-centered recordings. Or browse results titled:.

With eight speakers arranged in a circle surrounding the audience, and the audience in turn surrounding the band at the center, The Octopus Project performed Hexadecagon twice to over-capacity crowds at SXSW The result is not so much eight distinct songs as one epic suite with mood swings. Contact The Octopus Project.

Hexadecagon by The Octopus Project. The vinyl also includes a cut-and-assemble zoetrope that the listener can place atop the record as it spins, creating a miniature animation.

The overwhelmingly successful shows prompted invitations for repeat performances and talk of taking the production on the road. Video footage posted by gaston New album from Meg Duffy, dubbed as a personal glimpse into the artist's lush solo work. Streaming and Download help.

The performance required an integrated eight-channel audio and eight-channel video system, hence the name "Hexadecagon," the geometrical term for a sixteen-sided object — a sixteen-sided audiovisual panorama.

Each album track has its own zoetrope animation strip — eight in all.

Drugz by Night Auditor. However, the equipment to pull this off didn't exist. The band members quickly realized that in order to achieve their creative vision, they would need more than the standard two-channel stereo audio and single projection. Undoubtedly the band's finest work.