mathym | ASC-16

【ASC-16】- Audio-Visual Work ASC is for ascent. "ASC-16" is a creature made of fire-escape steel: landings, flights of stairs, columns, beams and grating. It has no plan and no top. Every hit of the music bolts one more part onto it, and the part swings or slides into place with a clang. The stairs tend to keep turning the same way, so the spine winds up into a crooked tower, and the camera climbs with it at a steady pace. Each part of the track grows its own kind of part. One percussion line adds the steel itself; the others leave clusters of barnacle-like stubs, small red fittings and frozen shards of metal. The bass grows machine boxes onto the surfaces, and the leads run pipes across them. The chords bring the heavy things: concrete slabs that drop in with a thud, and white hull blocks built from boxes, wedges and cylinders, covered in panel lines, hatches, vents and serial codes. Every chord also sends a red laser sheet up through the whole structure, and the line where it cuts across steel and concrete lights the surfaces around it. The weather follows the song. It starts in dark rain, the clouds break into a sun shower, the sky clears with heaped cumulus far off in the distance, and it ends at sunset with the tower in silhouette. Rendered in real time with raw WebGPU and WGSL. Driven live over OSC from Max/MSP. Nothing is pre-rendered; what you see is the take. 🎵 Track List: ASC-16 (02:32) Bandcamp: https://mathym.bandcamp.com/ Subscribe to this channel for more audio-visual works and generative art. Like and comment if you enjoyed this piece! #webgpu #wgsl #generativeart #creativecoding #audioreactive #glitchart #electronica #ambienttechno #maxmsp #sounddesign #proceduralart #cyberpunk #hardsurface #asc16 #mathym #Electronica #Glitch #AmbientTechno #webgpu #wgsl #generative #audioreactive #cyberpunk #hardsurface #volumetricclouds Thank you for watching! Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. For more audio-visual works and generative art, subscribe to this channel and follow mathym on other platforms. mathym - Electronic music and generative visual art Kawasaki, Japan All music and visuals created with Max/MSP and Processing. Real-time audio-visual performance and generative art.