Floating Points drop sizzling new single ‘Problems’
Floating Points – aka Sam Shepherd – has dropped a new single titled ‘Problems’, accompanied by an official music video.The track sees Shepherd collaborate with creative studio Hamill Industries (Pablo Barquín and Anna Diaz) on the official music video.Taking its lead from the electric pulses established in their prior collaborations on music videos for singles ‘Vocoder’ and ‘Grammar’, ‘Problems’ uses, according to a press release, “a technique called Vector Rescanning, they transform video into sound and turn it into a vector image, all in real-time”.Watch the dance-focused video for ‘Problems’ below:“‘Problems’ is meant to agitate every single room that its ecstatic sound waves reach”, Hamill Industries said. “We wanted to celebrate it with movement and dance and reshape it through sound, by using techniques that allow the sonification of images.“It was important that this video shaped the electrical feeling you get when being on a dancefloor, the urge of dancing when sound waves reach your ears.”As well as the release of ‘Problems’, Shepherd will also perform a headline set at London’s newest venue, Here, on New Year’s Day (Sunday January 1, 2023).