EXPERIMENTAL AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM
SIGNAL
BLOOM
LIVE CODING · GENERATIVE ART · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · IMPROVISATION — A SINGLE EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT.
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
THESIS
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 resulting experience is shaped through distributed authorship, where creative influence is shared across human, computational, and environmental participants.
THE QUESTION
AI-generated visuals are often treated as finished assets: generated, rendered, imported, and played back.
What happens when generation becomes the performance?
ARTISTIC VISION
Signal Bloom exists at the intersection of performance, computation, and visual art. Its aesthetic language draws from signal processing, cybernetic systems, recursive structures, iridescent materials, and speculative forms of digital life.
The visual world feels synthetic, organic, unstable, and alive.
- LIVE CODING
- GENERATIVE ART
- AI-ASSISTED CREATIVITY
- QUEER FUTURISM
- GLITCH AESTHETICS
- IMMERSIVE MEDIA
- EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK
ORPHEUS / EURYDICE — A MYTHIC FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION. EACH MOVEMENT BINDS TO A LIVE HYDRA SKETCH.
IMPROVISATION & EMERGENCE
- SOUND CHANGES THE IMAGE.
- CODE CHANGES THE SYSTEM.
- AI INTRODUCES VARIATION.
- THE AUDIENCE CHANGES THE ROOM.
Through these interactions, emergence becomes possible.
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
PROTOTYPE STATUS
- Three.js tunnel environment
- Hydra integration
- Audio-reactive visual behaviors
- Live performer interface
- Sketch management
- Hot reloading workflows
- Local ComfyUI integration
- Prompt-driven image generation
- Streaming denoising previews
- Hydra processing of generated forms
- Audio-reactive generated imagery
- Recursive image-to-image generation
CRYSTALLIZATION ARC
Signal Bloom exposes the image generation process itself.
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.
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
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
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.