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“Piloot – Gyre” by Florian Guibert (2019)

Video | | Paul Greer

Great use of Houdini, combining dynamics and audio driven keys.
Mesmerising & inspirational.

“The starting point of the idea for GYRE was to make a music video for the upcoming album of my band Piloot. Thus I was both the musician and the 3D artist. Being part of the creative process of the music itself, I have a close relationship with it. The interaction between music and image has always been a center of interest for my creative process. I see images when I hear music. Using that music as a guideline is something I’ve been experimenting with since the beginning of my graphic practice.”

— Florian Guibert

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London Symphony Orchestra – Visualizing Motion and Music (2017)

Video | | Paul Greer

“Motion becomes music becomes image! I created dynamic visuals based on the movements of the conductor and music, and extracted high resolution stills for the visual identity of the orchestra.
It starts with the arms of the conductor forming a hexagonal shape that propagates like sonic waves in linear space. When the music becomes louder, the linearity gets bended by the motion of the baton, which results more complex visual arrangements. Textures, colors, materials and lights are inspired by classical instruments (wood, brass, wind, strings) and the atmosphere and architecture of classic concert halls. In the last sequence, the conductors motion turns into strings. The waveform of the sound adds to the form of motion, like mixing audio waves.”

— Tobias Gremmler

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“46,656 Words or Sentences Represented with 6 colors, 1862”

Link | | Paul Greer

reblogging Ben Katchor:

from A. F. Ward’s Universal System of Semaphoric Color Signals, 1862

“A Novel and Original Invention, by which 46,656 words or sentences can be represented with six colors, intended as A Medium of Communication between all Nations, and Applicable to any Language; also adapted to sound and night signals, by which communications may be made at all-seasons, without regard to weather.”

 

via benkatchor

Audio AR/VR

Aside | | Paul Greer

I still think that a purely audio version of AR and VR has the potential to become a huge deal, way more than current tracking seems to suggest.

Imagine having the audio of this working whilst you walk around the modern city, and it interacting as you move

 

Skyline Music video for Karma Fields by ravenkwok (2015)

Video | | Paul Greer

 

“Skyline is a code-based generative music video directed and programmed by Raven Kwok for the track Skyline (itunes.apple.com/us/album/skyline-single/id1039135793) by Karma Fields (soundcloud.com/karmafields). The entire music video consists of multiple stages that are programmed and generated using Processing.

“One of the core principles for generating the visual patterns in Skyline is Voronoi tessellation. This geometric model dates back to 1644 in René Descartes’s vortex theory of planetary motion, and has been widely used by computational artists, for example, Robert Hodgin (vimeo.com/207637), Frederik Vanhoutte (vimeo.com/86820638), Diana Lange (flickr.com/photos/dianalange/sets/72157629453008849/), Jon McCormack (jonmccormack.info/~jonmc/sa/artworks/voronoi-wall/), etc.

“In Skyline’s systems, seeds for generating the diagram are sorted into various types of agents following certain behaviors and appearance transformations. They are driven by either the song’s audio spectrum with different customized layouts, or animated sequence of the vocalist, collectively forming a complex and organic outcome.”