Audiovisual · 1 of 3  ·  3:48 · 2026

Un Sábado en la Noche

A song I released in 2024, rebuilt as a visual performance where colour does the talking.

AI-generated visuals Live Resolume performance Original song

U.S.N. — poster frame Watch on YouTube — no autoplay

A classmate, after the class screening: “the song is in Spanish but anyway I could know what the song is about.”

Un Sábado en la Noche (U.S.N.) · 3:48 · 2026 · 16:9

Author
Directed, written, edited by me.
Image & motion
MidJourney — every shot AI-generated. No filmed footage.
Clean plate
ChatGPT, one plate
Edit & repair
After Effects
Live performance
Resolume
Song
Written, performed, recorded by me; mixed and mastered by Gelvert Bardales. Released May 2024.

Every shot is AI-generated. Coursework, performed live in Resolume. Self-released, unpaid.

The idea

The coursework came a year after the release, so I built the visual performance around a song of my own. In Berlin I had seen a Pink Floyd tribute in a dome, visuals running under Dark Side of the Moon. I decided I would not present another artist's work. Not about showing the universe, but about recognizing ourselves inside it.

The constraint I set myself

No lyrics, no subtitles, no explanation. Colour carries the story: red for him and his energy, blue for her openness, purple and yellow for the cosmos, green and cyan for what intrudes.

Three decision shots

01The bedroom

Rejected generation — the seated body left behind Rejected
Clean plate — the same room, empty Clean plate
Final — the repaired frame Repaired

He stood to kiss her and MidJourney left his seated body behind. I had ChatGPT generate the same room empty and masked the duplicate out in After Effects without cutting into the bed.

02Black on purpose

Abstract layer generated on a black background

I generated the abstract layers on black deliberately, so Resolume could key it out and stack them live. Designed into the prompt, not repaired after.

03The ending I didn't plan

Recycled material from the abandoned first concept

Credits ran out before the final chorus. Two weeks later, images from my abandoned first concept fit exactly. It ends at the peak, not the song's end.

AI in the workflow

Used

MidJourney generated every frame; it decided none of them. Order, duration, colour and the staccato cutting are mine.

Not used

The one place I refused it is the audio — the song is from 2023, written and recorded by me.

What it transfers

Working this way taught me why producers hire different directors: each one chases their own reality. The idea must be understood, but how that idea is displayed lies within different minds.