One of the few hurdles i had making this was that this song already had a music visualizer, I took inspiration from its color scheme. However, something else that video did was constantly invert the color schemes, which I really wanted to try playing with. I also made the vertices black to add more contrast. Finally, I made the points extend through the outside so the shape would transform from just a normal circle to a spiky one to emphasize the contrast
One of massive attack's albums "Mezzanine" has a beetle on the album artwork, this song made me think of a spider weaving a web, particularly with its main keyboard riff, and so i decided to use the closest thing to a web which was line-mat structures in TouchDesigner. next was coming up with the colors, I chose black and white as those colors are very common in the music video of this song and their debut album artwork is monochromatic. I increased the amount of points to give the web a dense feeling and matched it to the audio.
Whenever I hear this song, I think of a collection of insects or microscopic organisms in an unstable structure. i decided to visualize that in a way that would be disturbing to fit the dark theme of this song. I had originally considered using a human heart as the shape that the structure was confined to, but settled on a cube instead since it made the structures easier to see. I chose to use black and white as those are the colors of the album artwork & red to make the structure feel alive. red is the color of blood, whenever people aren't pale they usually end up more red, so it seemed fitting as a color to represent life. Black and red is also my favorite color combination.
This was a visualizer idea i wanted to try for potential live performances. I saw a Kraftwerk concert in early 2022, which was the first inspiration for this. I am very intrigued by 2D images that simulate 3D and 2D images with different depths of field. I also thought that this setup would work quite well with this song since the image can be whatever i wanted it to be and this was the result. II decided to make the camera spin around the image because it i really liked the perspective from both ends where one end has the person in the foreground and the other has the person in the background. this was also a setup that could work with images of any size and with any image at all, which was another reason why i wanted to make this visualizer. It'd be visually appealing, while being a simple & convenient setup.
This visualizer was an example of a "pseudo voronoi" structure emulated in Touchdesigner. I wanted to use this to emulate the look of cells and mitosis to bring a sort of organic feeling to a song that is typically associated with a genre of blending organic and inorganic matter. I created the structure and made it move, I gave it a focal point with that circle in the center. to add to the feeling of the structure being organic, I made the center look like water and grow and shrink to provide some visual focus to the work so the viewer would have something to follow.
Reaktor Productions - Afterglow
During a trip to Europe, I paid a visit to the Nxt Museum in Amsterdam. While there, I saw a lot of fascinating installations and I wanted to try creating something I'd like to see if I put up an installation in the future. I chose to go with a "space" theme and created a planet with rings as a result. To maintain movement, I added elements to move the planet and rings. I really wanted the planet to feel like an amorphous gas giant, so I made it translucent and tried to ensure the "rings" would go behind it. I chose the colors i did to add contrast and to ensure they're easy on the eyes, and to finish it off, I chose a song to match the visuals with. I had a hard time finding an upbeat song that sold the feeling of an intergalactic adventure, so I instead went with something that just sounded generally upbeat.
This visualizer was, again, partly inspired by my trip to Europe. At the Nxt Museum, I saw a variety of artworks which seemed to emulate microscopic lifeforms and had very abstract visualizations and I chose to replicate that in TouchDesigner via a "Microscopic Texture". I chose the color purple as it felt quite relaxing to me against the black background. However, I felt that the sort of jagged edges of the microscopic texture weren't inviting and didn't help focus on a subject too much, especially not with the music. I used the paintbrush-esque texture I had created before applying another feature to modify a sphere I put in the middle and used that to add more unique movement and focus.