Fish that love each other
Episode 6: I made a video with fish that love each other. “Dancing in Wonderland.”
For this one I really tried to stick to the song’s own timeline; you can see on the waveform just how fragmented it is. The first part is the lighthouse being rebuilt from its own debris. Then the elevator appears and exits the lighthouse. And finally we enter a new stage, almost a cappella, where the piano arrives.
As with the rest of the series, the lyrics are tied directly to the intensity of Will’s voice, and here, the piano plays on the intensity of the fish’s own luminosity.
Fish, designed from a tutorial
The fish themselves are built on a tutorial by @cartesian_caramel. Thank you again for that one.
The addition that made me cry
On the version I worked from before the final master, I liked the song, but it felt thinner; from what I remember, one part just repeated more than it does now. Then N U I T sent over the finished master, and I was speechless. I cried the first time I heard it again, because everything that got added in that pass reads like a chiaroscuro painting: it reinforces the whole thing, gives it depth and meaning that the earlier version of the idea was already reaching for.
Falling in love, flying in love
Coming back to the red thread that runs through the whole album, the emotional elevator: for me, this song is exactly what falling in love feels like. Except we don’t just fall; we fly in love, we rise in love. I see the fish as a kind of soulmates, a yin and yang, almost like mysterious gods drifting through the universe. This song is, for me, perfect: in its composition, its sensitivity, its fragility.
Spotify Canvas loop created from this visualizer
See you next week for episode 7, “I Believe.” The full series lives on the N U I T _ Alt Real case study, and the finished visualizer for this track is up on Instagram.
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