eduardofrafre.com / art

Workbench · sound, image and motion

Pictures that move to music, and instruments for making it.

Creative work, and how it gets made. Nothing here is finished yet, so this is the bench, not the gallery.

S01 studyxenoOct 2026Ableton Live · Blender · Python

A creature that walks to the hi-hats

Can every instrument in a track move its own part of a body, and can you see which one is playing?

Each note written in Live becomes motion in Blender: the kick slams the body down, every hi-hat moves one leg, the bass swings the tail. An overlay draws a line from each moving part to its instrument and lights it on every note.

  1. 01

    Compose

    Ableton Live

    One MIDI track per part of the body: drums, bass, lead and effects.

  2. 02

    Read the notes

    MCP

    The notes are read back from Live, not exported: time, pitch and velocity for each.

  3. 03

    Bake the motion

    Blender, Python

    155 notes become keyframes on 576 frames, every part on its own curve.

  4. 04

    Render

    Eevee

    1080p at 30 fps, 1.6 seconds a frame on a home GPU.

  5. 05

    Overlay

    Python

    An analysis layer drawn over the frames, one panel and one line per instrument.

Ableton Live with four tracks, Drums, Bass, Lead and FX, in the Arrangement, and the drum clip open below with one row per sound in the kit
01 LiveThe loop: eight bars at 100 BPM, one track for each part of the body. Below, the drum clip, one row per sound in the kit.
Blender with the creature in the camera view and, below, the motion curves baked from the notes
03 BlenderThe curves baked from the notes. The saw-tooth is the kick, the spikes are the legs stepping on the hats.
Which instrument moves what
KickThoraxslams the body down
SnareInner jawstrikes out
Hi-hatsSix legsone step per hit
BassTailsways while the note is held
LeadDorsal tubesextend and glow
FXHeadrises and scans

A proof of concept. The motion works: every part moves on its own instrument, within a few milliseconds of the note.

The creature is a stand-in built from simple shapes, and it is being replaced. The video stays off this page until it looks the way it should.

I01 instrumentlive

Sinepunk

Write a formula, turn the knobs bound to its variables, and hear it play.

An instrument for the browser, for people who have never written code and for sound designers after strange timbres.

Play Sinepunk

Sinepunk in the Leviathan world: a colossal dithered skeleton arching through teal fog, a glowing sine wave across it and white drops scattered in the air, with the Raindrops equation and the scene list below
LeviathanRaindrops playing: a sine that swells and fades four times a second, over the skeleton in the fog.