Projects
Inside the Unreal
Inside the Unreal
Exploring Immersive Live Music Through AI and Responsive Visuals.
Inside the Unreal is a research and development project exploring how immersive technologies can transform live music performance. Blending emotional alt pop with AI generated visuals, the project investigates how responsive systems such as TouchDesigner and MadMapper can create real time environments that react to sound and musical structure. Rather than presenting visuals as a backdrop, this project reimagines concerts as immersive, multi sensory experiences.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
Through prototyping and experimentation, I will test how digital dreamscapes can surround audiences and enhance emotional connection, atmosphere, and narrative within live performance. The research will explore both the creative potential and technical barriers of integrating immersive tools into independent music practice.
Inside the Unreal aims to build the foundation for a new performance language that merges sound, image, and space, allowing music to be experienced in deeper, more cinematic, and emotionally resonant ways.
Meet the artist
Thalia Robles Gomez
Lead Artist
she/her
Thalia (Thals) is a London based multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of music, AI generated visuals, and immersive storytelling. Her practice blends electronic alt pop with emotionally driven digital worlds, using emerging technologies to expand how music can be experienced. She has begun integrating AI into her visual work to create cinematic and surreal aesthetics and is now looking to explore how emerging technologies can deepen emotional connection and audience engagement through immersive and interactive formats. Through experimentation and narrative world building, she explores identity, desire, transformation, and digital intimacy, developing new ways for audiences to connect with sound, image, and story
