GAIA Ø FAZ Audio Visual Synthesizer Original

GAIA Ø FAZ Audio Visual Synthesizer

GAIA Ø FAZ has 16 audiovisual presets that generates displacement textures, abstract geometric shapes, glitch based textures, processed Kinect data, and waveforms by capturing MIDI notes, audio frequencies and
note color data coming from Roland’s GAIA SH-01 Synthesizer in real-time.

We programmed GAIA Ø FAZ with Quartz Composer and VDMX. To capture the color data from the musical notes coming from the synthesizer, we developed a QC-based VDMX plugin. The plugin converts all the received MIDI notes into color data. We used the color music scale from DD Jameson (Color Music Book,1844) as a reference. Also, we converted MIDI notes into numerical values to animate our visual compositions. For capturing waveforms we used Interactive Shader Format FFT color lines inside VDMX.

This video contains some of the excerpts we recorded during the programming process of GAIA Ø FAZ Audio Visual Synthesizer. For the future, we are planning to program/develop more displacers and geometric compositions for our visual presets.

GAIA Ø FAZ exposed to the public during Sonar Festival / Sonar+D 2020 Istanbul. Thanks to our sponsors Roland TR and Zuhal Music for their endless support!

Audio Visual Programming: T. Hüseyin Kuru & Lucas Garcias
Synthesizer Programming: T. Hüseyin Kuru & Erdem Tunalı
Producer: Tolga Özoğlu & Roland TR