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Feeling and Form – Audiovisual Prototype



Developed in conversation with the Music Center Los Angeles Innovation Lab

Feeling and Form is an audiovisual prototype that explores how classical music might reanimate memory through spatial storytelling and digital trace. At its center is a Gaussian splat of the Libby sculpture in the Blue Ribbon Garden — a fountain of broken Delft blue porcelain. Inspired by its fragmented surface and quiet resilience, the project imagines a poetic act of breaking and unbreaking the sculpture again, this time through sound.

Driven by a Bach cello solo, the splat responds in motion, as if the music itself were breathing life into the object. The prototype was created using a volumetric workflow: I captured the sculpture on-site, processed it with Gaussian splatting, and brought it into Blender for early motion tests before designing the audio-reactive scene in Unreal Engine.

This piece is part of an ongoing inquiry into presence, loss, and how emerging media might hold the emotional resonance of physical form — even in its fracture..