Animus is the debut album from Taiwanese-Australian composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, released by Every Possible Recording. The album’s opening track, “Blades,” extends beyond sound into an interactive browser-based experience created by Jesse Stiles using Cycling ’74’s RNBO and Three.js.

In this work, the listener becomes a participant: Hsieh’s music drives a constantly shifting digital environment constructed through Gaussian Splatting, a neural rendering technique that turns photographic data into a fluid 3D space. As the user touches or drags on the screen, their gestures reshape both the sonic and visual worlds in real time.

The piece runs entirely in a web browser, with audio processed through RNBO’s portable DSP engine and rendered live. It’s a work that blurs the boundaries between listening, playing, and perceiving, situating composition within an evolving, tactile encounter.