Joëlle Snaith is a designer and audiovisual artist based in London whose work is sculpted from the frequency data of music, translating sound into real-time generative visuals. She combines a parallel career in UX and product design with an art practice built on live performance and audiovisual synchronicity.
Working mainly in Vuo, a node-based visual programming environment, she feeds live audio frequency data into rule-based systems she builds herself, shaping animation and behaviour around specific frequency bands and their loudness. In live shows she manipulates additional parameters through a MIDI controller in real time, adding a performative, improvisational layer since she has no control over what a DJ plays. Her partner Eaton Crous designs the accompanying sound using generative systems built in Ableton Live and Max for Live, and she describes the resulting compositions as deeply personal, an echo of the emotions and memories she has while listening to music.
