Mujō. Live with Billion O'Clock at OMC in Leics Sunday 5th March 2023.
無常 Mujō was a performance work examining the transience and impermanence of existence through audiovisual composition. The piece comprised over 10,000 individually rendered digital paintings, seamlessly integrated using Stable Diffusion technology to create a cohesive visual narrative.
The work premiered as part of a collaborative performance with @billionoclock and @nailbreaker_ at OMC, Leicestershire on Sunday 5th March 2023. A subsequent private audiovisual presentation was staged at @institute_lab as part of #LoughboroughLates on Friday 3rd March 2023, 6:00-8:30pm.
無常 Mujō is structured as a sequence of interconnected scenes, each originating as conceptual sketches that evolved into fully realised video compositions. The visual aesthetic was developed using AI technology, trained on a comprehensive dataset combining targeted prompts with my complete artistic portfolio spanning 2005 to present. This training encompassed my extensive digital art collection—thousands of pieces exhibited on platforms including WAN and Graff.io Arts—alongside my photography and urban texture studies captured across global metropolitan environments.
The synchronisation of visual and audio elements was achieved through TouchDesigner, utilising a custom-built patch integrated with TDAbleton to map each visual scene to its corresponding audio counterpart. The sonic foundation emerged from processed train recordings, looped in 16-32 bar segments and transformed through strategic processing and reverb treatments to form the percussive backbone of the composition.
The relationship between visual and audio elements was deliberately symbiotic. The composition's initial palette of muted tones corresponded to a minimal, restrained sonic character. As chromatic intensity increased throughout the piece, the audio composition gained brightness and expanded dynamic range. The progression towards darker hues in the concluding passages created an increasingly ominous and foreboding auditory landscape, establishing a direct correlation between visual colour theory and sonic architecture.
