Nikolai Petukhov
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Film 2025

Falling in Love (Visualizer)

The rhythm of falling in love, visualized.

Role
Visualizer · TouchDesigner
Year
2025
Location
San Francisco, CA
Tools
TouchDesigner

Overview

The rhythm of falling in love, visualized.

“Falling in Love” is a hypnotic visualizer built around the pulse of emotion. Patterns flicker and recombine like a heartbeat learning its rhythm, pulling the viewer into the shifting, electric space of early love.

Process

I started from the beat.

The music came first. I built the piece in TouchDesigner and let the track drive it: an audio analysis of the song feeds a chain of feedback, mirroring, colour keying and bloom, so every hit of the beat pushes the pattern into a new shape.

Somewhere in that motion the shapes start to look like something: a flower, a face, a heart. I never decide what. I think that’s where the art is, in the small details, where the person watching brings their own meaning to it.

The TouchDesigner network: audio analysis → feedback → mirror → bloom
The TouchDesigner network: audio analysis → feedback → mirror → bloom