Fluid Subspaces 🎵🎬
Fluid Subspaces began with a question:
If it could sing, what would fluid motion sound like?
Inside every flow is a structure—a collection of hidden shapes, each vibrating at its own frequency. These are the system's eigenmodes: invisible architectures of motion, encoded in the math.
By isolating those modes and converting their amplitudes to sound, I built a library of physical melodies:
- Each mode: a shape + a note
- Combinations: chords, textures, cascades
This project is an audiovisual system: fluid becomes tone; tone becomes space.
I spent years tuning equations. And then the smoke answered.
Date: 2016–2017
Tools: MATLAB, SuperCollider, C++ custom simulation visualizer
Process: Modal decomposition of simulated fluid + sound synthesis from singular values
Iterations: 3 published pieces, hundreds of variations, many days of ray-tracing compute time
Artifacts: A PhD dissertation
