Jon Hopkins has shared a new collaborative video for “RITUAL (palace),” the track is off his new album RITUAL, out today via Domino records (Arctic Monkeys, Animal Collective) and DSPs.

Hopkins explains how the video – directed by UON Visuals – came to exist: “I was lying awake one night in an RV, on a trip to Big Sur this spring. There were some ideas floating around my head for how to visually represent the second single from RITUAL, but none were resonating strongly. Suddenly in a flash I had this idea of a video that started out looking like one of those motionless album sleeve visualisers, but that then we would start to actually enter that album sleeve, and rotate around to the left of it, to reveal that it is in fact a structure that stretches infinitely into the distance, and is made up of billions of particles that feel like they are alive. We would then become one with that structure and find a whole universe inside. The idea to ask visionary genius UON Visuals to turn this idea into a reality came soon after, and the results are absolutely mind-blowing.”

UON Visuals adds: “I got the chance to push every technical limit and create something far beyond anything I’ve ever made before. The result is pure magic, a synesthetic harmony of light and sound that takes you on an unbelievable sensory journey!”

Hopkins explains how the video – directed by UON Visuals – came to exist: “I was lying awake one night in an RV, on a trip to Big Sur this spring. There were some ideas floating around my head for how to visually represent the second single from RITUAL, but none were resonating strongly. Suddenly in a flash I had this idea of a video that started out looking like one of those motionless album sleeve visualisers, but that then we would start to actually enter that album sleeve, and rotate around to the left of it, to reveal that it is in fact a structure that stretches infinitely into the distance, and is made up of billions of particles that feel like they are alive. We would then become one with that structure and find a whole universe inside. The idea to ask visionary genius UON Visuals to turn this idea into a reality came soon after, and the results are absolutely mind-blowing.”

UON Visuals adds: “I got the chance to push every technical limit and create something far beyond anything I’ve ever made before. The result is pure magic, a synesthetic harmony of light and sound that takes you on an unbelievable sensory journey!”

Upcoming RITUAL Listening Events

Sat. Aug. 31 – London, UK @ ICA w/ Q&A [SOLD OUT]
Sun. Sept. 1 – Manchester, UK @ Cultplex w/ Q&A [SOLD OUT]
Wed. Sept. 4 – Bristol, UK @ We The Curious w/ Q&A [SOLD OUT]
Thu. Sept. 5th – Montreal, QC @ Centre
Fri. Sept. 6th – Montreal, QC @ Centre
Sat. Sept. 7th – Montreal, QC @ Centre
Sun. Sept. 8th – Montreal, QC @ Centre
Fri. Sept. 13th – Montreal, QC @ Centre
Sat. Sept. 14th – Montreal, QC @ Centre

Order RITUAL, by Jon Hopkins HERE