TouchDesigner · live · NYC

Demon Nights

Ongoing · Thursdays, 11pm to 4am

Live audio-reactive generative visuals projected on the ceiling at Demon Nights, Maison Nur, 217 Bowery NYC

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How it works

Diablo + friends

Every Thursday I build the visuals from scratch in TouchDesigner and run them live across the full ceiling above the dance floor. They react to frequency bands, percussive hits, and how hard the room is going. I wrote and operate the whole network myself.

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TouchDesigner reads a live audio device feed and splits it into frequency bands: kick, low, mid, and high. Each band drives a different visual parameter. Every song hits differently, though; some tracks have a soft kick, others compress the highs, some run loud all night. So through the set I tune the detection thresholds by hand in real time, raising the kick floor so a quiet track still triggers geometry, pulling back the mid sensitivity when a dense mix starts firing everything at once. If the audio isn't being read cleanly, the visuals fall apart, so that calibration never stops.

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I build and operate the TouchDesigner visuals for Demon Nights, Diablo’s Thursday residency at Maison Nur, 217 Bowery. I map frequency bands and drum hits to generative effects, then control the ceiling projection during sets from 11pm to 4am.

Credits
Venue
Maison Nur, 217 Bowery, NYC · created by Nur Khan
Role
VJ / Visual Artist
With
Diablo (Sebastian Baldeon) & friends
Tools
TouchDesigner, MIDI, audio routing
Role, process and impact
Role
I build the TouchDesigner networks and operate the ceiling projection during Demon Nights at Maison Nur.
Process
I route the audio signal, map effects to MIDI controls, and adjust the visuals during DJ sets.
Impact
I perform the visuals during the Thursday residency, from setup and calibration through the closing set.

Demon Nights