Cycles

Cycles is a generative audiovisual work created entirely in Max/MSP/Jitter, exploring repetition, randomisation and emergent form through computational processes. The musical component is centred on piano and sampled material, with generative algorithms autonomously determining the development of the composition. The visual system applies related principles to recorded footage of plants, cutting, reorganising and recombining the source material. Across both sound and image, the work investigates how algorithmic systems governed by defined constraints, chance operations and controlled randomisation can produce evolving structures while retaining a perceptible relationship to their original materials.