David Mathúna

Fixity - 'NEEDSMUST' Music Video, 2026 [Full video @ link in bio] 🚨*WATCH AT 4K RESOLUTION*🚨 Here are two short clips from the newly released music video for 'NEEDSMUST' from Fixity's newly released and savage new album 'Assurance.' This is my third visual outing with Fixity and with each video I feel like there's been a development in the relationship to the form, each one approaching live video production in a different way - progressively less automated and more performed. In the time since the last video for 'Always Again' in 2022, @danwalshdoesdrum invited me to perform live with the band in a musical capacity on two occasions when playing in Berlin. I think that informed how I approached this new video; the articulations of all effects are performed in a live take. Through the Cork Improvised Music Club and our other collaborative project with @kallgeese - 'Not Earth' - Dan has been a pivotal influence on my approach to improvisation in music making, which has bled Into many other aspects of life, so I'm grateful to continue this visual collab series with Fixity. Lastly: IG upload compression is atrocious, so please do watch in 4K resolution on YouTube to get an impression of what it looks like in its uncompressed form x #fixity #album #musicvideo #realtime #live

My sister @__muirgen__ is releasing her debut single 'Brushstrokes' today and I couldn't be more proud of her. It's been inspiring to observe her strike out on her own path on this record, and I was honoured to contribute an insignia design for the release. Get it in yer ears! #muirgen #debutsingle #release #sister #music

Our live set from Cofete is now on Soundcloud and Bandcamp and free to download! The link is in what would normally have a biography, but we don’t really have one it’s just links to loads of music and videos. All the bios! Thanks times one thousand to @roisinniccar and @cristian__cruceru for having us.

We are releasing our live set from the 2025 edition of Cofete on Soundcloud and Bandcamp next Monday! We were so spoiled by the energy, love and light of the crowd, crew and organisers that we will happily file this gig under ‘life affirming’. Properly life affirming. Whatelsewouldjubedoing? A few of these tracks will make it on to an album to be released in 2026, in some shape of form. Thanks everyone! Up Cork! Free Palestine. #techno #bangers #liveset

@berlinatonal appreciation post. Such a strong sense of narrative weaves itself through these five days, each performance with its own distinct visual identity, each placed in sequence with such deliberate dramaturgical consideration - and the progression of each consecutive day with the same intention, shifting dynamically between minimalist and maximalist aesthetics, between austerity and beauty. I am always grateful for the profound feelings of collective experience that I come away from Atonal with; of awe and wonder at ambitous scale on the one hand and everyday banalaties on the other, foregrounded and heightened to the point of poignancy. I am also grateful for the challenges and alienations throughout: for the sharp light thrown on the things in my own life that I am avoiding and that need addressing. I am reminded of why Atonal caused me to decide to move to Berlin after first attending in 2016. It really is a testament to and celebration of the best of what Berlin is. I can only hope that the city and Germany at large can again continue to rise to meet the standards it sets with brilliant endeavours such as this. Thanks most of all to the changing cast of companions who made each day a unique journey; friends old and new. Until next time. #berlinatonal #atonal #kraftwerk #berlin

'Attack On Disney', 14.02.2025 Exercise in copyright infringement. Inspired by 'Disarming Corruptor' from @plummerfernandez I recall a talk at the @arselectronica in 2014 where he detailed how he increasingly deformed an STL file of Mickey Mouse until it was just unrecognisable enough as to evade copyright and have it legally 3D-printed. Mickey Mouse has since entered public domain. @disney and its subsidiary @marvel play a significant role in the whitewashing and legitimisation of Israel's apartheid regime, and they are among the most prominent conglomerates on the BDS list. Boycott Disney, cancel your Disney+ subscription if you have one. Don't feed the monster. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 -------------------------- Realtime stop-motion animation made in @touchdesigner using the Stream Diffusion plugin from @dotsimulate I improvised a sound collage based on what I was seeing when altering the input noise period, monocrhome on/off and generator seed. All things considered, I had way too much fun making this; sat laughing to myself for an hour, sampling things from the headphone output back into ableton. High fives if you can spot every reference. #touchdesigner #streamdiffusion #noise #ai #aiart #disney #copyright #publicdomain #mickeymouse #boycott #boycottdisney #bds #freepalestine

'Meanies' - KENL Music Video, 2025 🐶🚨🐶🚨🐶🚨🐶🚨 Here's a few short clips from the newly released music video I made for our canine techno cult @kenlbangers Had this one in the back pocket a while. Happy to finally have it out in the world. Full video minus the usual woeful IG compression now up on our YouTube (Link in Bio) . #kenl #bangers #music #video #techno #noise #pangs #analog #digital #canon #touchdesigner #reactive #cork #doghouse #goodboys

Staff party here at KENL HQ. Hope you're all having a GREAT weekend x #KENL #meanies #techno #music #video #goodboys #doghouse #bangers

Perpetual Melter – A visual and sonic loop born from a collaboration. A body without form. A rhythm without resolution. This piece emerges from the dissolution of structure—where image and sound erode the boundaries of flesh, space, and time. Together with David, we merged two disciplines—live sound and visual creation—into a single temporal flow. A performance distilled into video, where nothing holds, and everything flows. Perpetual Melter. Images @paoltortone Animation @dmathuna Music @_sorica Software in use @touchdesigner #midjourney #touchdesigner #visualdesign #aiartcommunity

Under The Rubble Depth map sketch 06.02.2024 I had reservations about sharing this sketch back in February, not wishing to contribute more to the already pervasive sense of general doom that had been the backdrop to the year up until that point, but the zeitgeist's vibe hasn't changed a whole lot in the eight months since, so I guess what I was channelling then still applies. Thanks to instagram for the brutal upload compression and to the USA for its astounding commitment to world (and self) destruction. Be sure to keep doing, making, thinking, and raging against the machine, now more than ever. Most of all, be kind. And as always, free Palestine ✌️ _________________________ Image & depth map generated with @stablediffusion Animation made with @touchdesigner after a technique by @dith_idsgn Audio: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Mutation (Akira OST) #endtimes #destruction #atrocity #propaganda #touchdesigner #stablediffusion #akira #vignette #depthmap #instancing #sketch #animation #usa #uselection #palestine #zeitgeist #mood

Smoke & Mirrors Flow Emitter Blob Tracking 02.10.2024 Made with @touchdesigner Remixing some old flow emitter designs. Blob tracking displacement after a technique by @pppanik Audio: @oscarmulerooficial - Tu Luz (Obsessed with this tune atm) I'm open for video design commissions and collab proposals. Fire me a dm or email me at: contact [at] davidmathuna [dot] com #art #generativeart #video #visual #sketch #reactive #flow #emission #blob #track #touchdesigner #techno #perform #visualart #audiovisual #irishartist #smoke #mirrors

Six years in Berlin today. How it started; how it's going, etc. #berlin #anniversary #sixyears #schlaaand