I met Tom Adams in 2023, after being a big fan of his music for many years.
He reacted favourably to a realtime animation on my website and we talked about a collaboration.
In 2024, I started to dive deeply and seriously into this realm as a new direction for my artistic work and this is the first fruit of our working together.
My partner Susanne Kohl and I set out to support the calm and fragile music with imagery that tries to accompany the song and support the feeling it gave us.
All animation is done in VVVV and it's FUSE extension in realtime on the GPU.
FUSE generates HLSL code from nodes (or to be precise: SDSL code for the Stride game engine that is the 3D render engine in VVVV).
Another extension, Kairos, is a very flexible timeline for VVVV that allowed us to set precise keyframes for all the effects.
All rights to the music belong to Tom Adams and Moderna Records.
The ep with b-sides and remixes from Tom Adams "Golden Waves" sessions is out on Friday 5th of April 2024 on Moderna Records:
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Find many other fantastic releases from Tom Adams on Bandcamp:
oceantemple.bandcamp.com
Be sure to listen into "Silence" and "In the Constant Noise", but it's all beautiful. :-)
Susanne Kohl is an artist from Berlin, working in a wide range of genres and media:
sukomotion.de
/ @sukomotion
VVVV can be found here: visualprogramming.net
They just released version 6.0 with a lot of great updates to the workflow.
FUSE is a bonkers-good extension for VVVV that we used for the particles:
www.thefuselab.io
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