Classification Invention

The live visuals rig

The real-time stage system my three-person team and I built: clean stems in, audio-reactive graphics out, under 40 milliseconds or it gets cut. TouchDesigner, Unreal Eng...

Persona Yao Yi
Start year 2024
Associated place Tianfu Software Park, Chengdu
Creator credit Yao Yi
Artwork status Not for sale
stage visuals technology unreal touchdesigner
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Story and context

The real-time stage system my three-person team and I built: clean stems in, audio-reactive graphics out, under 40 milliseconds or it gets cut. TouchDesigner, Unreal Engine, motion capture, a digital twin.

We built it because every off-the-shelf visualiser made the screen throb like a media player from 2005. Now the kick displaces the virtual room, the snare triggers geometry, and my vocal pitch shifts the light temperature. It took most of a year to get tracking drift and latency down to something that does not make me seasick on stage.

Rule number one, written on the studio wall: the tech serves the song, or it goes.
Rights or provenance

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