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Resonant Spectra
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Gallery

20 pieces from this show, hand-picked. Tap a photo for the full-quality view.

How to play it

Resonant Spectra is an instrument, not a slideshow. The photographs are the score; the light is grown from them. Everything below changes the performance live.

Mouse

↔
Drag left / right on the pictureShifts the hue of the whole scene — the photo and every wash, plume and beam grown from it.
↕
Drag up / down on the pictureRaises or lowers the intensity of the light.
⟳
Scroll wheelZooms the photograph in and out of the frame.
⧉
Double-clickToggles fullscreen. Controls and cursor fade out after a moment; move the mouse to bring them back.
▦
FilmstripClick any photo along the bottom to jump to its movement.

Looks

1
Reveal — the photo is only visible where the light falls on it
2
Bloom — the photo full-frame, light blooming over it
3
Prism — the photo's spectrum split apart by the bass
4
Spectra — pure light, the original abstract mode
L
Cycle through the looks

Colour

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Hue shift −/+ 15°
−=
Intensity down / up
C
Cycle colour mode: Natural → Duotone → Mono → Negative
0
Reset colour to natural

Photos & playback

←→
Previous / next photograph
space
Pause / resume the movement
R
Release — flash and move on, as the music would
Home
Start over — back to the first photograph, shown untouched for a second, colour reset, then the show begins again
G
Show replay — plays a dated show's photos back-to-back at the real gaps between shots (compressed), instead of one fixed duration each. Toggle off to return to the regular cycle.
X
Remix — jumps the look, colour mode, hue, and every feel slider to a new combination at once, with a release flash. Surprise me, basically.
M
Play / pause the loaded track

View

F
Fullscreen
P
Show / hide the control panel
S
Save a still (PNG)
?H
This screen
esc
Close this, leave fullscreen, or hide the panel
D
Debug readout on the canvas
👆
Touch (mobile): tap a corner to pick a Look · pinch to zoom · two-finger swipe l/r for prev/next photo · two-finger tap to cycle colour mode · three-finger tap to release — play it with your fingers
Keys are ignored while you're typing in the song search.