Advance video for the track "Emergence" from Mai's forthcoming album Polis, out 26 March on Wormhole World.
Mai is a pseudonym for composer/musician/producer Steve McCourt. Originally from Dublin, he now lives in Shanghai. His music fuses acoustic and electronic elements into lovely compositions that foreground subtle harmonic changes. He released a pair of albums titled Arcadia on Stolen Mirror in 2018 and 2019, followed by Gaia on Wormhole World in 2020.
Robin Parmar created this video to honour the early computer graphics experiments of Larry Cuba. Cells of overlapping patterns generate new and unpredictable forms for the eye. A processing sketch is played live to the music, facilitating an organic flow that arises from the underlying grid.
