I constructed a 4x4m hanging circular installation where live animations were projected accompanied by two organs inspired by phase cycles in minimalist music. The animations were edited live in succession with the music to be as syncronised as possible.

PHASING - A series of notes (a repetitive phase) is played on two or more musical instruments, in steady but not identical tempo. Thus, the two instruments gradually shift out of unison, creating first a slight echo as one instrument plays a little behind the other, then a doubling with each note heard twice, then a complex ringing effect, and eventually coming back through doubling and echo into unison.

VISUAL PHASING - Live projected animations on top of each other occurring at the exact moments the sounds do, so that they flow in unison and the visuals morph in and out of synchronicity.

The beauty of phasing and phase cycles is that it is a regimented structure that has been played with. It is a tight system of musical notes that are repeated again and again, the structure of the musical system is layered and layered until it suddenly becomes fluid, it breaks away from the constraints of organisation even though it is a series of very well organised notes being played in a concentric order. I find it paradoxical, that such a system can become amorphous and break away from order so I wanted to recreate it visually. The circle of the installation represents the loop, the cycle, the infinitum of phasing and within this circle is the gridded system of order. But by projecting onto the pyramids, the visuals become contorted, they change from every angle and are never the same - a tight and geometric system in fact ends up creating the opposite of what it is.

The animations that are projected onto it will also loop and all be on top of each other, playing at different times and speeds just as the organs will do. Through this process of layering, an infinite amount of forms will be perpetually displayed and when this is also done on top the pyramids, it adds yet another layer where the viewer can walk around to see something completely different from every angle.