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Sherman Finch

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Explorations in Audio-Driven Visual Design

October 18, 2024 Sherman Finch Past Work

Creative Coding / Audio Web / Interactive Design Artist · Designer · Developer · Art Director
AudioWebAPI, Javascript, Canvas, Three.js, WebGL

Sound has always been an invisible architecture — shaping emotion, rhythm, and spatial awareness. In this body of work, I explore how sonic energy can be translated into dynamic visual systems.

Sonic Interaction Motion (SIM Wave)

Systems is my ongoing research into using browser-based Audio APIs and generative design frameworks to transform frequency, amplitude, and rhythm into responsive movement and evolving form. In the beginning these explorations where based on sine waves and simple movement. Then they graduated to data waves. what followed were studies inspired by and grounded in music theory — examining harmony, intervals, and structured composition as spatial relationships. Others embrace experimentation, allowing noise, live input, and emergent behavior to sculpt motion in real time.

Click on the sketches to see them in action!

 

Across these works, audio is not treated as accompaniment. It becomes structural input — driving geometry, interaction, and kinetic transformation. These explorations inform my broader digital practice in immersive environments, responsive systems, and experience design, where invisible forces become visible frameworks.

To see more of these explorations Sound-interaction-Motion Wave Frequency-Chart Speech to Color Changer DataWaves – Coming soon!

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