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"One Life Beautiful"
"One Life Beautiful" is a real-time audiovisual installation, produced for a work of music of the same name by Julie Giroux, commissioned by Cal Poly-SLO Wind Ensemble. Following the intention of the work to serve as both a personal memorial and a reflection of the fleeting beauty of life, the piece is a live audioreactive composition of a flower blooming and receding that breathes through the ensemble's sound. Audio spectral analysis determines color, particle velocity, particle dissolve intensity, bloom, turbulence etc.
Role: Produced for Cal Poly-SLO Music Department. Utilized conductor's and musicians' interpretation of the work for inspiration on ideation. Self-produced from initial sketches to execution. Performed live on March 9, 2025.
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Compositing, front-end and back-end development, audio analysis and visualization, all completed in TouchDesigner. 3D Life System component sourced from supermarket sallad's YouTube channel, and Jump Flood Algorithm component sourced from DBraun's github. All components are open-source. Open-source footage of flower taken from Pexels.com. Sound taken from Cal Poly-SLO Wind Ensemble's March 9, 2025 performance of "One Life Beautiful," by Julie Giroux.
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