Fluid Subspaces 🎵🎬

Fluid Subspaces began with a question: what would the mathematical structure of fluid motion sound like as music?

Inside every flow are hidden shapes, each vibrating at its own frequency. These are the system's eigenmodes.

By isolating those modes and converting their amplitudes to sound, I built a library of physical melodies:

This project is an audiovisual system: fluid becomes tone; tone becomes fluid.

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

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