DURATION: 3 WEEKS
Solitude: A Freefall through Sound and Vision
ROLE: MUSIC PRODUCER & 3D ARTIST
As newcomers to music production, we embraced the rawness of our limitations. This pre-graduation project stretched Baumgartner's infamous freefall spin into a glitchy, one-minute sensory trip—where unpolished beats mirrored the chaos of losing control.
The Sound.
Using FL Studio, we crafted a disorienting soundscape: unquantized drum loops mimicked Baumgartner’s erratic spin, while distorted 808s (nodding to $uicideboy$’’s Memphis grit) anchored the chaos. Intentionally clipped vocals added texture, leaning into the track’s unpolished quality as a feature—not a flaw. The result was a deliberately rough-but-evocative composition where every glitch reinforced the theme of losing control.
Visual Storytelling.
We hijacked Red Bull’s footage of Baumgartner’s freefall, focusing on his destabilizing spin as our creative launchpad. Using Blender and Premiere Pro, we intercut reality with surreal hallucinations: a colossal astronaut catching him mid-fall, his body passing through a floating skull, fingers grazing a suspended huge water droplet. The trippy VFX (rendered in one weeks flat) didn’t just depict dissociation; they forced the viewer to feel it, turning documentary footage into a psychedelic head-trip.
