Jamie XX (of The xx fame) teamed up with Quayola—as part of RizLab‘s series of collaborative projects—to road test the latter’s Partitura sound visualisation software, which he built in collaboration with Abstract Birds.
What ensued was a perfect melding of sound and vision. Jamie XX’s laid
back pulsating beats gave life to Quayola’s highly rendered graphics,
which flowed and formed on 17 meter HD screens, immersing the captivated
crowds in their glowing fluctuations. The intricate forms that played
out across the canvasses danced and splintered, breaking and reforming
in flickering structures, turning music into a visual entity.
Someone remarked that it was the best screensaver they’d ever seen,
but it was much more than that—a real-time music visualisation tool with
500 different visual parameters that uses algorithms to generate a
beautiful palette of colors inspired by artists like Kandinsky and Paul
Klee. Impressively, the unfolding graphics are not pre-sequenced, so it
becomes an exploratory piece and is addictive to watch. It’s so smooth
you forget that it’s actually responsive, as it takes on a life of its
own, coming alive in bursts of color and assorted shapes.
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