This interactive video restructures the flow of time in a manner that generates evolving textures, polyrhythms, and pulsations.  The visuals and foreground audio show violinist Pauline Kim Harris throwing down a wild field of plucks, scratches, and plonks – these sounds act as control signals that filter and recombine the track “Experimental Treatment” from Congregation of Drones’ debut album Twenty Twenty.  

Pauline’s performance is presented as overlapping slices of time that spin through space as they fade in and out.  The viewer can interact with the video by controlling the width of each time slice (!width), the duration of each time slice (!duration), and by directing the flow of time forward, backward, and bi-directionally (!direction 1, !direction 2, !direction 3).

Pauline was filmed using a smartphone LIDAR camera, creating a volumetric video that can be manipulated in 3D.  All video and sound processing is being done live in Max (a.k.a. Max/MSP/Jitter) on EPR’s dedicated Twitch computer.  The video was produced and directed by Jesse Stiles.