6! Dynamic Compositions 2018-2020
A digital music toy
Download: Google Drive download
Development time: On-and-off, multiple months
My Tasks: Music, 2D art, animations, coding, visual effects, animation systems, UI
Coach: Susanne Brandhorst
6! Dynamic Compositions is a digital music toy with contextual audio visualisations.
The player has control over six instruments that will play loops once they are activated.
Depending on the order in which the player activates the instruments, the entire composition changes. The later an instrument is picked, the higher the intensity of its loop. With the power of combinatorics, this results in 720 or, mathematically speaking, 6! possible compositions.
Each instrument is represented visually by contextually relevant components of an animated painting. This art book will give you an insight on one set of musical loops and their accompanying painting.
I worked on this project as part of my bachelor thesis at HTW-Berlin Game Design BA. I had previously made a lot of the project's framework (UI, coding the basic system, designing the interactive music system etc.) in my spare time.
For my thesis, I made one set of music-loops as well as an animated painting consisting of over 300 assets and using hundreds of individual animations and VFX to bring it to life in sync with the player-controlled music. I made all the sprite assets from scratch and animated them directly in Unity.