Video

Biography: NuSan
Hello I’m Nusan (she/her) a 39 year old French numeric artist
I mostly practice shader live coding but I like everything creative!
I do some demoscene productions on Youtube
I’m also a graphic programmer and technical artist, I make small indie games too that you can find on nusan.itch.io
Description
CCC Nusan 2024
Pixelated bad dream
I'm using a "fantasy console" called TIC-80, which is open source and lets you make tiny retro games or animations using LUA
TIC-80 limits you to a resolution of 240x136 and only 16 colors palette, but there is a trick I use to change the palette before each scanline, so you can have a lot more colors on screen.
All my effects use some sort of remanence, that is not clearing the screen fully at the start of the frame, but keeping whatever is there, and only changing a few pixels per frame to a darker color, so things fade to black slowly. This lets me blend all my effects together while providing an interesting texture to everything.
I’m using a specific version of TIC-80 dedicated to live coding, where an FFT of the background sound is available, letting you make audio-reactives effects.
I made the final video in two steps, I first improvised several effects in TIC-80 that react on music and then I recorded them playing while putting some background music and live changing the sound’s volume to influence the level of the FFT and so the “intensity” of my effects, I made several recordings until I was satisfied with the result TIC-80 website
TIC-80 FFT version
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Music

Biography: 50D
French bass music DJ and producer. More DJ than producer tbh.Heavily inspired by slick drum&bass, dumb dubstep and hard bass, fun uk garage, glittery hyperpop and bass music tracks that tell stories without words. Of course, you can hardly find any of that in the work I submitted to CCC, but that's ok.
Description
Through a Decade of Changes Software, plugins & material used :
* Bitwig Studio
* Serum
* Arturia Stage-73 V
* Spitfire Audio BBC Orchestra Discover
* A few drums and misc samples I mostly worked by watching and rewatching Nusan's videos, imagining sounds and instruments that could match several features of her visual composition. For example, plucked square wave notes that represent the squared "rain drops", or plucked sinwave notes when circle sprites.
The lush parts of the video composition inspired me a cinematic bright orchestral string ensemble, that became a huge part of the finished soundtrack, especially in the chillest parts of the video, contrasting with the more intenses parts where I assembled some more danceable shuffled drum breaks, matching with the visually busier mood of these parts.
I noticed that Nusan also put some video glitch effects on top of her composition, which I synced with some bitcrush FX applied on the whole composition.
Then, I found that the animated wave that grows to a wide abstract tornado (that inspired me the string parts) was lacking some sound design to match its visual language. So I added some filtered white noise synced to its animation to create a strong wind effect, reminding the sound of some slightly hostile storm replaced by the brigher and dreamy strings arrangement that predate in most parts of the composition. On a more technical side note, I used TouchDesigner to help me sync the video to my Bitwig composition, by creating a very tiny patch to retrieve the DAW timecode and play Nusan's video synced in realtime along the audio track playhead.
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