A Pure Person
The Idea
The Lin Qiang & Guests production team wanted a website to accompany the release of their album. Priorities for the site included:
- A minimal design very close to the digital and physical album cover
- A type of audio-visual interactivity for each track
Inspirations included Holodec.world’s very cool website by creative digital design and development agency Bureau Cool. The way the album was designed, however, begged a simpler design for the interactivity.
Looking at the fairly minimal design, I proposed a type of audio visualization with the image associated with each track.
Research, Tools, and Processes
While I hadn’t executed an interactive creative concept like this, I was very excited to dive in. Research and requirements led me to Web Audio API + CurtainsJS.
I initialized the project with Gatsby.js thinking we would have more pages to work with, but as the album cover design was finalized, I stripped the structure of the site down to match.
Combing through documentation for both Web Audio and CurtainsJS, I learned how to create a simple plane, loaded image textures, create audio analyzer nodes and accessed audio data. I connected audio data to the simple plane animation effects using audio frequencies and mouse delta values.
The team wanted to use the website animation effect for the visual of the streamers, so I also helped the team create screen recordings for “streamers”, or audio previews to be posted on Instagram and Youtube.
Towards the end of the project, I tested and optimized the site for accessibility and improved performance with code-splitting and lazy loading.
The Site
For the soft launch and teaser, the team requested that only certain tracks be available before October 15th, the hard launch of the album.
The project is currently live at apureperson.com.
Press
New compilation focuses on Lim Giong, the ‘godfather of Taiwanese experimental electronic music’ | Resident Advisor
A Pure Person: Angela Lin in Conversation with Lim Giong | Far Near Media
” ‘Godfather of Taiwanese Experimental Electronic Music’ Lim Giong is Centered for a New Locally Focused Compilation” | Mix Mag Asia
Taiwan’s Lim Giong (林強) Presents a Pure Person out October 15 | IMDB.com
“A Pure Person” di Lim Giong: torna con una nuova compilation il “padrino” della musica elettronica sperimentale di Taiwan | Radio Italia Cina
Iconic Track “A Pure Person” From Cult Film Millenium Mambo Is Reinterpreted for Our Melancholic Times | Electronic Beats
Taiwan’s Lim Giong (林強) Presents a Pure Person out October 15 | Asian Movie Pulse
A Conversation with Angela Lin – Coming Full Circle With ‘A Pure Person 單純的人’ | Asian Pop Weekly
侯孝賢の映画『千禧曼波/Millennium Mambo』のテーマ曲「A Pure Person」の再解釈作品が発表 | Avyss Magazine