The recent collaboration between Australian DJ, HAAi, and mysterious London-based collective, Weirdcore, visualises the experience of music. It’s as if we were to have a collective synaesthesia that turns sound into trippy visuals, morphing from one thing into another before you can wrap your head around what’s happening.
This partnership is meant to show off the new synthesizer, Absynth 6, from Native Instruments. And it’s not just HAAi who’s featured. As part of their campaign, Native Instruments has asked numerous artists such as Manni Dee, Manuka Honey, Hezen, Luxe, LCN, ex.sess, Am Sin, Wordcolour, Ikava Pii and more, to compose using the new technology while Weirdcore makes the visuals for each artist’s creation. The videos are to be released on Instagram, the first of which is HAAi’s video.
HAAi’s unique sound blends techno, house, and psychedelic rock to create a slightly melancholic sound that you still want to dance to. In her video, an old CRT TV set lit up by neon green lights shows two hands shaking while HAAi’s face comes in and out of the light. Weirdcore’s visuals are just that: weird. But they still feel cohesive with HAAi, capturing her layered, ephemeral sound. Their style immerses you into a dream-like technological field where you stumble into unknown shapes and symbols, existing in this liminal space akin to being half-asleep, but still dreaming.