Musical Meditations

A visualization of Max Richter's Dream 3

Daeun Yoo
MDE 2024
Cathy Park
MDE 2024
Julius Stein
MDE 2024
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1 The more people focus on sound, the more the sphere and surface inflate and change its color.

We intended to recreate a vision of the sun rising from the water, drawing inspiration from works like Max Richter’s Dream 3 and James Turrell’s Color Inside. To depict the motion of the sea, we made a group of dots that resemble a plane, and we added a sphere to the top of the plane to represent the sun. We chose a section from Max Richter’s Dream 3, from which we extracted the dominant frequency at every frame through a fast Fourier transform. Along with the sounds, the sphere and plane-like point movements fluctuate. The colors were drawn from James Turrell’s Color Inside, which is where we first got the idea for the sunset/sunrise. The soothing motion of the sun and the music allow the audience to practice meditation and relax.

Project video
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2 2 Inspired by “The Color Inside” A Skyspace by James Turrell
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3 2D: Flat -> 2.5D: Inflate > 3D: Sphere
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4 Music: Max Richter - Dream3
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5 Code Snippet of Grasshopper and FFT (completed in python pre-processing)