Transient: How Do You Visualize Music?
Transient is an interactive, musical exhibit utilizing animation, live-action video production, and modern technologies to visualize music played on a piano. The exhibit aims to create a fun experience for musicians of any skill-level that encapsulates the spirit of music within its fleeting moment of time. The exhibit consists of a piano keyboard placed in front of a television screen. Participants can sit down at the piano, and play whatever kind of music they would like. An important aspect of Transient is that it puts the paintbrush in the audience's hand, by allowing them to play a piano. Their music is then visualized on-screen in live-time, through colorful videos and animations. The visualizations fade away with the notes, signifying music's impermanence and uniqueness. Even if you played the same song, the visuals would be slightly different every time, and that unique and impermanent experience reflects the beauty of music. If you'd like to learn more about the making of the project, we have a behind-the-scenes video: https://vimeo.com/874352560/eece87fc87?share=copy
![Behind the Scenes of Avyay Playtesting Transient](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/5306a74b2399efd2f4f3b1bfd4fc3f32.jpg)
Behind the Scenes of Avyay Playtesting Transient
![Behind the Scenes of Shooting Visuals](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/0aca3444235da831a360d6efde506ba1.jpg)
Behind the Scenes of Shooting Visuals
![Behind the Scenes of Shooting Visuals](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/ef4d7cb3cf744b06596837042541eb50.jpg)
Behind the Scenes of Shooting Visuals
![Early Planning and Concept Art for Transient](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/7dd87cdb194a9b82981f0b39a5f41c4d.jpg)
Early Planning and Concept Art for Transient
![Transient Being Played at the Spring '23 Radical Exhibition](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/4f471ac9c11516ece525d0b3b26a7664.jpg)
Transient Being Played at the Spring '23 Radical Exhibition
![Behind the Scenes Coding](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/4ee8d1827278f399509c8c85c53539fc.jpg)
Behind the Scenes Coding
![Behind the Scenes Rendering](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/f5face42c95efaa6f5ad83ed8a16cb37.jpg)
Behind the Scenes Rendering
![Credits List for Transient](https://www.rit.edu/imagine/proposals/storage/proposals/192/19da3e03610876866fb2957688dee4c3.jpg)
Credits
Topics
Exhibitor
Colin O'Brien
Avyay Natarajan
Will Hagele
Advisor(s)
Christine Banna
Organization
This art exhibit was the final for my Radical Workshop class, in which each student directs an experimental video-art project. My two co-exhibitors: Will Hagele and Avyay Natarajan, are RIT students who played a crucial role in the project, but did not re
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