Animated black screen with clusters of white dots forming the word “Afterburn”. The dots shift and flicker to create a dynamic digital typographic effect.

Afterburn

Music is felt as much as it is heard. It carries an atmosphere that shifts with the listener. Afterburn explores this sentiment by translating electronic music through temperature, asking how listening can become tangible. Using a personal temperature scale, guided by intuition and sensory mapping, ten songs are interpreted as cold, warm, or hot. Through print, elements like texture, color, and composition express how each track holds, builds, or releases energy. These interpretations begin digitally and are further curated through analog processes such as screenprinting, embossing, and hot foil stamping, allowing physical form to amplify emotional resonance.

Afterburn is a system that invites curiosity through different formats including a live performance collaboration, case study, zine, and print collection.

What stays with you, and how does it feel?

Abstract composition with frosted texture blending from white at the top into deep blue at the bottom. Sections of magenta and cyan peak through a frosty texture. A black and white monogram composed of circles forms a lowercase “a” and “b,” paired with the text “DUSTCUTTER – Quadeca” and “COLD – FRIGID.”Abstract composition in pink, black, and white, with a glowing, starburst-like center surrounded by splattered textures, grain, and sporadic brush-like forms. A black and white monogram composed of circles forms a lowercase “a” and “b,” paired with the text “Faceshopping – SOPHIE” and “HOT – SCORCHED.”People socializing around glowing pinball machines, colorful projections on the walls, and neon lighting inside Happy Valley Arcade Bar in Beacon, NY.People jumping and dancing with their hands in the air surrounded by blue and white flashing lights.