Music Visualizer for The Still Point’s Full Circle

Music visualizer created with TouchDesigner. My longtime friend and accomplished guitarist Hayes reached out about collaborating on a music visualizer for his band The Still Point new album. Taking album’s cover art as inspiration, I created a number of concepts sketches that we refined together, ultimately landing on the final composition featured in the video for Big Dig above. Each instrument is represented by a different set of reactive shapes: Large cubes for the bass drum, small cubes for the kick and cymbals, the vertical center lines for the guitar, the bottom center grey wireframe adaptive tube for the base, the center expanding rings for the saxophone, and the top center expansive rings for the trumpet. Their placement in frame was also considered, the strings form the backbone and grounding that carries the song, the percussion is pervasive and adds in punches of color, while the horns cut through everything to stand front and center. In order to make sure that the music would still be the center of attention and not have to compete with the visuals, we decided to use a static viewpoint for the visualizer and also not add in extra special effects, opting only for film grain effect applied over a hand drawn look. I had a blast working on this with Hayes and this was a great opportunity to take a deeper dive into audio analysis techniques in TouchDesigner.