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07 Dec 20

Sam Hardiman shares abstract video for 'The Ava Sessions (feat. GEF)'

Hardiman begun his musical life studying classical piano in The Royal Irish Academy of Music, and then went on to graduate from Music Studies in Trinity College with a first class honours degree in November 2019, and has been pursuing his passion of creating art ever since.

Following the staggering critical success for 'The Ava Sessions', Dublin-based songwriter and producer Sam Hardiman is sharing an ambient, abstract video for the track.

'The Ava Sessions' is a song about examining the themes of addiction, technology and the relationship between the two. Written and produced in collaboration with GEF, the track uses a metaphor derived from Alex Garland's 2013 movie 'Ex Machina' to address how the world has come to rely on technology in times of stress, forgetting that we as people are stronger than we think.

The song attempts to address the issue from the perspective of the Internet itself, with lines like 'Run to me, but don't forget yourself.' “This creates a tension, as if a conversation is occurring throughout the piece between human and machine,” Hardiman explains of the track. “It invites the listener to examine their own artificial relationships."

The track is the final single from Hardiman's debut record A Strange Kind of Intimate, released on March 18th 2020.

The music video was created by visual artist Ellie Shortall. Of the video, Ellie writes: "It was inspired by my interest in the third space, a new space that has emerged from technology being so deeply intertwined in our everyday lives. I have attempted to create a space of transcendence, representing the push and pull of physical and digital realms combining."

Watch the video below.