Context
This project explores what happens when scientific archive material becomes the foundation for a generative visual world. The central question was not how to create something entirely new, but how to look at something already existing from an angle conventional technology cannot reach.
The starting point was a simple fascination: vinyl is a physical medium that stores information. The grooves pressed into the plastic surface carry remarkably complex acoustic information. That physical relationship between material and memory became the conceptual anchor for everything that followed.
Research
Research
The source material was electron microscope imagery of vinyl records, scientific documentation, not aesthetic production. These images already contain their own visual language: dense, rhythmic, almost textile in structure. The goal was not to fabricate something fictional, but to work from this real, verifiable foundation and redirect it toward a different kind of storytelling.
Tools
Initial visual assets were generated using Google Nano Banana 2, with additional work in Qwen Image Edit and Flux2.Dev in ComfyUI. This combination allowed for gradual control over composition, color palette, and material quality — specifically simulating liquid chrome, polished gold, and high-gloss silver, referencing the material language of physical retail environments without ever entering one.
Animation was handled primarily through Grok (image-to-video, first-frame input), chosen for its strength in dynamic movement and prompt responsiveness. The final shot was produced in Kling 2.6 using a first/last-frame method, which anchors the motion at both ends and lets the AI interpolate the transformation between them — keeping geometry stable and reducing visual drift.
Final Video / Desktop
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Sampling as Method
The soundtrack is built from a sample of 'Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions — I've Been Trying'. The act of sampling — taking something that already exists, recontextualising it, building something new on top of it, mirrors the entire logic of the project. The video closes on the label of that specific record, a physical object from my personal collection. A reference within a reference.