Big Noise by King Deluxe

Despite its initial absurdity, the animated result seems more than satisfying, standing up for the original, ambitious idea. Τhe short, produced by King Deluxe, is based on an artistic experiment, the so-called “corpse project”. This means that different artists collaborate on the same project, giving it a more spicy twist; they are not working on the same chunk, but every animator takes over where the previous one left off.

This endeavor is presented in the Big Noise, a clip accompanying the Dutch-based Lucinate’s homonymous track. The band’s groovy, soft bassline is asking for a moody, melancholic opening. And it gets it. We are being transported into a speakeasy-like atmosphere, where it comes as more than natural to add a bit of a murder mystery. Getting into the depths of the detective’s troubling untangling of the mystery when - well, with the help of rituals, star-reading of ancient civilizations and psychedelic enlightenment - where were we left? And what sort of ordeal did this teddy bear go through?

An interesting experiment, done by 9 different animators, brings a charming piece through its ambiguity.

The artists, in order:

Héloïse Petel, Steve West, Jeremie Carreon, Pranay Patwardhan
Nikita Deshpande/ Calvin Xingpei Shen
Gerhard Human, Pierre-Julien Fieux, Andrew Khosravani, Conde Pablo

Big Noise is also the title track of Lucinate's coming album and can be found on this beautiful limited edition 12" vinyl.

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