Michna, a Brooklyn electronic artist, American DJ and music producer, is half responsible for this awesome video! The track is an electronic ride through geology with a female whisper… it could be a dance number performed at festivals — although it is quite smooth and dreamy and too abstract to be totally dance oriented — but the DJ had another idea. He teamed up with Christopher Thockler for ‘Solid Gold’ a video featuring 60 rocks from 15 different countries around the world. Thockler explained:
‘Michna and I have at least two common points, we love good music and rocks! When we started to discuss about a music video for the track Solid Gold, we quickly talked about minerals and how we loved them. I had a small collection and we soon decided to do some tests and go in this direction. In this video, I obviously wanted to work with the beautiful textures of the rocks and tried to add something dynamic and kinetic effects to enhance the sequences. That’s why a large amount of shots are done mixing stop motion and motion design. Solid Gold is another exploration of a theme I am fond of, the search of the beauty in the mundane. I like to think about the idea that the casting of this video is made of ancient majestic characters from all around the world, it’s also a tribute to nature, with small bits of our planet dancing together during three minutes. This is my second collaboration with Ghostly International, I thank them for their trust.’
Of course if you are not a geologist, it will be hard for you to recognize anything, so they came up with this page featuring all the rocks and minerals used in the video, from Madagascar’s biotite to Swiss’ cyanite, from Brazil’s lepidolite to Morocco’s vanadinite, they are all there, but the video may go too fast for you to catch every single one!
This is the ultimate rock song I guess.
