With my passion for music, I've always wanted to find a way to merge visual art and music. I saw an opportunity for me to use my experience with real-time tools to explore this idea and in the end I was finally able to take this step towards a full-CG, audiovisual integration.

I used CHOPs in Houdini and a simple extrusion setup to generate motion that 'responds' to the music input. 

I decided to use Medasin's 'Up and Down' as a reference track because I had recently heard the album and a lot of the songs on it felt like they had a bittersweet, nostalgic quality to them, which then made me visualise a calm sunset scene that, in its own way, responded to the music alongside the technical reactivity.

For the environment, I used Unreal Engine 5 along with Megascans and Marketplace assets. I wanted to create a sense of a space that could be habitable but one that ultimately served the mood that I was going for.

I also experimented with the Ultra Dynamic Sky tools for the first time, and was able to create interesting looks that would've otherwise taken a lot longer to achieve.

Check out Medasin's song below!