Touchdesigner

In the fall of 2023, I was lucky enough to participate in a digital art festival in Sofia. As part of this event, I prepared a small experimental set using my favorite modular synthesizers and TouchDesigner. The basis of the performance was my favorite complex feedback loop, slightly more controlled than in my usual experiments, but still very unstable and dangerous. It was a serious challenge for me to perform this live. Unfortunately, there is no quality recording, but I collected some fragments to convey the atmosphere that was present in the hall. ...

I created this work while contemplating my perception and attitude towards the city of Sofia, where I had been living for more than a year and a half by that time. I walked the streets, recording various sounds: trams, the subway, passing cars, as well as the atmosphere of parks, busy and quiet streets. In the end, I assembled a mosaic from this. The video sequence turned out to be quite simple, but it conveys the feeling of hidden energy and electricity present in the city. ...

In the winter of 2023, I visited the ski resort of Bansko in Bulgaria. Although there was little snow and we didn’t go skiing, this short trip gave me a rich collection of sound material. With a recorder in hand, I explored the city streets, capturing all the interesting sounds: from the ringing of bells to the creaking of wooden stairs under the feet of my friends descending from the mountain. Upon returning home, I created a musical composition from these field recordings. For the visual accompaniment, I experimented with neural networks for the first time, using Stable Diffusion Deforum - one of the first models for generating video. ...

The work about the terrible present that will eventually come to an end.

This was a concert with the same guys we collaborated with in Sound Artist. A year later, we came together again and performed, bringing new experience. This time, in addition to synthesizers, I prepared a visual component for the performance.

With this series of works, my acquaintance with TouchDesigner began. When I first opened the program, I started to figure it out and was pleasantly surprised by how familiar it felt to me, despite the fact that I was using it for the first time. It reminded me of Houdini from that time, since they have a lot in common. Very soon I started using GLSL because it was the way to have full control and complexity in real-time. With my academic background, I wanted to explore how traditional art and visual aesthetics can look in the format of real-time generative video. ...