EXPERIMENTAL AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

SIGNAL
BLOOM

LIVE CODING · GENERATIVE ART · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · IMPROVISATION — A SINGLE EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT.

[ THIS PAGE FUNCTIONS AS A LIVING RECORD OF THE SYSTEM’S DEVELOPMENT. ]

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Signal Bloom is an experimental audiovisual performance system that combines live coding, generative art, artificial intelligence, and improvisational performance into a single evolving environment.

Signal Bloom treats generation as a performative event.

  • INPUT_00AUDIO / LIVE
  • INPUT_01PERFORMER / LIVE CODING + IMPROV
  • INPUT_02AUDIENCE / ENERGY + INTERACTION
  • PIPE_00HYDRA → COMFYUI → ROUTER
  • OUT_00LIVE VISUAL OUTPUT / PROJECTION
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THESIS

Generated figure modulated through Signal Bloom
FIG.02 — GEN_OUTPUT / orpheus · sd → hydra modulated

Signal Bloom explores how improvisation between human and machine actors creates conditions for emergence.

The project investigates the evolving relationship between:

  • PERFORMER
  • MUSICIAN
  • MACHINE
  • GENERATIVE SYSTEMS
  • AUDIENCE

The thesis centers authorship as a distributed process shared across performer, musician, machine, system, and audience.

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THE QUESTION

Signal Bloom explores a different relationship between generation and performance. Images, forms, and visual structures are produced live as part of the event itself.

> audio.listen() // live > generate(prompt) // streaming > hydra.modulate(o0) // live > emergence := performance // TRUE

What emerges when generation becomes the performance?

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ARTISTIC VISION

Signal Bloom exists at the intersection of disciplines. The visual language draws inspiration from signal processing, cybernetic systems, digital emergence, recursive structures, iridescent materials, and computational organisms.

The visual world feels synthetic, organic, unstable, and alive.

  • LIVE CODING
  • GENERATIVE ART
  • AI-ASSISTED CREATIVITY
  • QUEER FUTURISM
  • GLITCH AESTHETICS
  • IMMERSIVE MEDIA
  • EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
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NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK

ORPHEUS / EURYDICE — A MYTHIC FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION. EACH MOVEMENT BINDS TO A LIVE HYDRA SKETCH.

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IMPROVISATION & EMERGENCE

IMPROVISATION the live decisions made by humans and systems.
EMERGENCE the visual behavior that arises from those decisions.
  • SOUND CHANGES THE IMAGE.
  • CODE CHANGES THE SYSTEM.
  • AI INTRODUCES VARIATION.
  • THE AUDIENCE CHANGES THE ROOM.

Through these interactions, emergence becomes possible.

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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

VISUAL SYSTEMS

  • HYDRA
  • THREE.JS
  • WEBGL

AI SYSTEMS

  • COMFYUI
  • STABLE DIFFUSION WORKFLOWS
  • LOCAL IMAGE GENERATION

PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS

  • AUDIO REACTIVE INPUTS
  • LIVE CODING
  • KEYBOARD DRIVEN CONTROLS
  • REAL-TIME VISUAL PROCESSING
Signal Bloom system overview diagram, generated by the system
FIG.07 — SYSTEM_OVERVIEW / inputs → gen → router → output
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PROTOTYPE STATUS

MILESTONE 1COMPLETE
  • Three.js tunnel environment
  • Hydra integration
  • Audio-reactive visual behaviors
  • Live performer interface
  • Sketch management
  • Hot reloading workflows
MILESTONE 2COMPLETE
  • Local ComfyUI integration
  • Prompt-driven image generation
  • Streaming denoising previews
  • Hydra processing of generated forms
  • Audio-reactive generated imagery
  • Recursive image-to-image generation
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CRYSTALLIZATION ARC

Generated bloom form modulated through Signal Bloom
FIG.09 — BLOOM / noise → structure → form · hydra modulated

Signal Bloom exposes the image generation process itself.

NOISE→STRUCTURE→FORM→IMAGE

Intermediate denoising frames are streamed directly into the visual environment. The audience witnesses emergence as it occurs.

The audience experiences the image through its transformation from noise to form.

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COLLABORATION

MUSICAL COLLABORATOR

RAYONISM (MATT)

Rayonism’s modular synthesis provides a live sonic field that the visual system listens to, responds to, and transforms.

  • MODULAR SYNTHESIS
  • IMPROVISATION
  • EXPERIMENTAL SOUND DESIGN
  • LIVE AUDIOVISUAL DIALOGUE
  • EMERGENT PERFORMANCE
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CURRENT ROADMAP

COMPLETED

  • ✓ ARTISTIC RESEARCH
  • ✓ CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
  • ✓ NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK
  • ✓ HYDRA INTEGRATION
  • ✓ THREE.JS ENVIRONMENT
  • ✓ COMFYUI BRIDGE
  • ✓ AI GENERATION PIPELINE

IN PROGRESS

  • · PERFORMER INTERFACE REFINEMENT
  • · RECURSIVE GENERATION WORKFLOWS
  • · VISUAL STUDIES
  • · PRODUCTION PLANNING
  • · VENUE PLANNING
  • · PERFORMANCE TESTING

UPCOMING

  • □ PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
  • □ CAPSTONE PRESENTATION
  • □ INSTALLATION DOCUMENTATION
  • □ OPEN-SOURCE RELEASE EXPLORATION
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FINAL STATEMENT

Signal Bloom investigates the space between intention and emergence.

Through improvisation, performers and machines shape an evolving visual environment that can never be fully predicted in advance.

Each performance becomes an experiment in collaboration, uncertainty, and transformation.