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
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