This underwater video rendition of electronic musician Nicolas Jaar's creative struggles highlights the haunting yet beautiful vein which Jaar says runs through his most recent work. Produced by The Avant/Garde Diaries and accompanied by a detailled interview on the musician's creative process and inspiration, the video is set to Jaar's "Noise." When discussing themes in his recent music, Jaar says, "The first theme is noise. It's very obvious for our time, but I just can't get away from it… I started getting very grossed out by technology for the first time. Anyway, what started slowly taking shape in my mind was this idea of broken technology. That's what noise then became to me. What does a broken computer sound like? What does a broken anything sound like?". What does a computer sound like underwater, maybe?Jaar discusses his cynicism that is developing with age: he's 23, and just graduated from Brown University into the real world which, as he says, "is a big, bad, cold place." Jaar seems to be experiencing that loss of innocence moment that pervades when young adults go from the structure of the class room to floundering for a job, and like most musicians, finds his solace in the process of making music. Although he says his recent work is significantly less pretty than his previous, he feels it is a necessary for him to share, and yet he hasn't lost all his optimism. As he poetically explains, "I hope you go towards the heavens, and then you're just bored of it so you go towards hell, and back to the heavens. I hope the truth isn't that youth is a heavenly place and life slowly brings you to hell. I hope it’s more of a beautiful balance where you have to go between one and the other."[via The Avant/Garde Diaries]@megyoungblood