If you haven’t listened to the debut single “Spider Silk” by Sky_A yet, I have to seriously ask, why the hell not?
As we wrote before, the London based writer and producer not only paints soundscapes in elements of acoustic, rock, and electronic but also creates a visual experience to accompany the sonic one.
The visual experience for “Spider Silk” was created by the artist himself.
He says this of the self-filmed video,
The video was filmed completely DIY, using motion capture with AI to create the animations. I recorded myself dancing, manipulated it with 3D software, and then put the renders through Stable Diffusion to get the different textural effects. The performance footage I shot using a £15 Amazon ring light in the hallway of my pokey flat in Hackney! And for the establishing shot of the television in the abandoned building, I used Midjourney to generate the image, then expanded it with Photoshop Generative Fill to create the foreground. I work as a video editor, and get so used to huge sums of money being thrown around on very average content, so it was a satisfying experiment to see what I could put together on literally zero budget.
What Sky_A has created is haunting just like the song and lyrics themselves and while the process to record the video was intricate, the finished result is one of effortless simplicity.
