Elegy for a Terrestrial Collapse

Created during my time in Joshua Tree, the piece explores different markers of concurrent timescales – the golden hour marking the end of the day, the desert's cracked earth marking the start of a dry season, and the landscape of Landers marking our current epoch. 

Visuals are created using Hydra using feedback techniques on source footage I recorded in Landers, California. The audio is created with SuperCollider and TidalCycles. SuperCollider is creating the rhythmical sounds using granular synthesis techniques, and TidalCycles creates the piano sequence. The piece is created live, where the mouse controls the visual parameters as well as the granular synth sounds (percussive and vocal sounds).

Source code for the piece: github gist.