A small audiovisual sketch made during a pause.
I’ve been deep inside a long, multi-year project and felt myself growing tired of carrying something so heavy for so long. I missed the act of making without an endpoint, just following a feeling and seeing where it goes.
It’s late December - cold, wet, post-Christmas. That quiet stretch after the solstice where you start yearning for warmth again.
Sound, melody, and fragments edited by me.
#audiovisual
#digitalcollage
#processwork
#ambient
#wintermood
Anima Arborea (2025). Found tree sculpture, projection-mapped digital animation. 09:56
This work began with a tree I found in an alley behind my home. I brought it home, pruned it, 3d scanned it, and projection-mapped it - transforming it into a ritual object that blooms and fades in an endless cycle.
Through an interplay of projection-mapped imagery, the tree extends beyond its physical form. Branches dissolve into luminous echoes, tracing recursive paths - dancing, blooming, dissolving, and beginning again. The piece builds on point cloud and gaussian splat workflows I’ve been developing over the past year in my live sets. Scans were captured with Polycam and LumaAI, the mesh cleaned and growth animations sculpted in Blender. Additional point cloud manipulation and projection-mapping were recorded in real-time with TouchDesigner.
Anima Arborea is both a meditation and an invocation - a spectral choreography that blurs presence and absence, emergence and decay. It’s a companion to To Hold a Vanishing Thing - another projection-mapped sculpture from Echoes in Bloom (more to be shared in a future post) - a stump, a memory. In contrast, Anima Arborea reaches forward - toward bloom, motion, and reawakening.
#projectionmapping #touchdesigner #mediaart #newmediaart #digitalsculpture #pointcloudart #gaussiansplatting #3dscanart #realtimevisuals #technobotany #artandtechnology #interactiveinstallation #contemporaryart #installationart #echoesinbloom
Reflecting on the past before stepping into what's next. This is Lost Illusions (2019), my last major artwork exhibited at @centre3_ during Supercrawl. Comprised of 18 individually hand-painted and screen-printed sheets of duralar, each over seven feet tall, this installation featured activated video projections and an immersive soundscape composed by @a_hutchie .
Lost Illusions marked an important chapter in my artistic practice. Tomorrow, after six years, I'll be installing Echoes in Bloom, my newest body of work, and I'm excited (and a little nostalgic) about what lies ahead.
This artwork was supported by the Ontario Arts Council’s Media Artist Creation Project (Emerging Artist) grant.
Photo 1 - Andrew Butkevicius
Photo 2- @onelooseboot
#lostillusions #installationart #supercrawl #mediaart #hamont #artexhibition
A couple weekends ago reminded me why I love this so much.
Thank you to @live.lab and @orphx_official for the honour of sharing the stage. 90 minutes of listening, responding, and drifting somewhere together.
This was my first live visual performance in 21 months.
Over the last two years, much of my focus shifted toward installation work. Bringing some of those ideas back into a live setting felt incredibly energizing.
Nothing in the set was fixed. Images were improvised live from evolving systems: generative sketches, camera feeds, light, textures, virtual environments, and realtime image processing. All continuously reshaped in response to the sound and the room.
What I love about this is its impermanence. Sometimes the sound, visuals, atmosphere and audience briefly synchronize into a shared state that feels larger than any individual element. Fragile, fleeting, impossible to repeat exactly the same way twice.
Very grateful to everyone who spent time inside it with us⚡️
Thanks to @deedss.2 for the additional footage 🖤
#livevisuals #vj #audiovisual #improv #touchdesigner
Thanks to @live.lab , @aaapoc , and everyone who joined us in Hamilton last weekend! We are at it again this coming weekend, making our debut in Belgrade @clubdrugstore and returning to Madrid for @100x100techno #orphx #livelabmcmaster #drugstorebelgrade #100x100techno #techno
Our largest production to date.
Two rooms. Live A/V. Full venue transformation at MOOI.
One night only.
Lost Illusions is suspended field of translucent forms - hand-marked, light-activated, and in slow motion by @aaapoc A canopy of shifting surfaces gathers overhead, where projection and air currents produce a quiet choreography of reflection, drift, and depth.
AVANT MUTEK Toronto — a collaborative night uniting two communities around a shared interest in forward-thinking electronic music, presented by @mutekmontreal and @linkmusiclab
Unfolding across two rooms within @mooi.studios ’s intimate warehouse space in Toronto, the event features a carefully curated lineup of artists and aesthetics that embody MUTEK’s exploratory spirit.
Ahead of the flagship MUTEK Montréal Festival in August, AVANT MUTEK positions audiences at the forefront of contemporary sound and audiovisual performance, bolstering the dialogue between the Montréal and Toronto digital music scenes in a specially conceived setting.
ENTER TO WIN: Purchase an AVANT MUTEK ticket online for a chance to win a weekend pass to MUTEK Festival in Montréal (2 winners).
Tickets on sale now via @resident_advisor - limited capacity
Design: @seysaan
SATURDAY, MAY 2 ⚡️
@orphx_official returns to LIVELab for a live set of analog-driven industrial techno
Featuring live visuals by Andrew O’Connor @aaapoc and an opening set by TORC (BE) @oscarunderdog
This event is part of a research study on the experience of techno. Optionally participate during the show and receive $20 compensation!
Tickets @ link in bio 🎟️
This study has been reviewed and received ethics clearance from the McMaster Research Ethics Board MREB#7202
#mcmaster #hamont #industrialtechno #musicresearch
SATURDAY, MAY 2 ⚡️
Orphx returns to LIVELab for a live set of analog-driven industrial techno 🔊
Featuring live visuals by Andrew O’Connor @aaapoc and an opening set by TORC (BE) @oscarunderdog
This show is part of a research study on the experience of techno! Optionally participate in the science and receive $20 compensation 🧠🎶
For tickets + more info: link in bio 🎟️
This study has received ethics clearance from the McMaster Research Ethics Board (MREB #7202)
#mcmaster #hamont #hamontevents #musicresearch
NEURORAVE WEEKEND 2026 ⚡️
@orphx_official is BACK at LIVELab, Saturday, May 2nd!
Analog-driven industrial techno, pulsing, hypnotic, and built for full-body immersion.
Featuring live visuals by Andrew O’Connor @aaapoc and an opening set from TORC @oscarunderdog (BE) ✨
Optional research study during the show ($20 compensation). Link in bio for tickets and more info 🎶
📍 LIVELab, McMaster University 🕗 Saturday May 2 — 8pm
⚠️ Limited capacity · standing room only
This study has been reviewed and received ethics clearance from the McMaster Research Ethics Board MREB#7202
#researchconcert #mcmaster #hamont #hamontevents
Orphx returns to @live.lab at McMaster University on Saturday May 2 for another live performance + cognitive study utilizing infrasound (sounds below the threshold of human hearing). Warming up the night will be Torc (aka @oscarunderdog ) and visuals will be conjured by the eldritch sorcery of @aaapoc . Space is limited : ticket link in bio #orphx #mcmasterlivelab #techno #infrasound #experimentalmusic
A structure slowly taking form.
The physical structure for Flowers from the Future is beginning to take shape: custom aluminum frames (designed by @tidal.pool ) built to hold recycled monitors in a V-shaped formation. Still very much a work in progress at this stage - many material experiments ahead as the structure gathers its character.
�Background sounds are a small fragment of new music composed by @a_hutchie - also still unfolding.
Grateful to the City of Hamilton’s City Enrichment Fund for supporting the materials that made this structure possible.
#installationart #audiovisual #realtime #generativeart #flowersfromthefuture
The world dissolves, but the feeling remains. Work in progress snippet from a developing artwork titled Flowers from the Future.
Deeply grateful to the City of Hamilton’s Enrichment Fund for supporting the project’s first phase, and to the @ontarioartscouncil for generously supporting the next phase through the Media Arts Creation Projects (Established/Mid-Career Artists) program.
Excited to continue carrying this work forward. Lots more to come.
