Atrophy is an experimental installation piece composed of hours of home video footage my grandfather made throughout my childhood and 250 possible audio clips of his voice he recorded before he passed away. A new audio clip is triggered every 7 seconds, and a new video clip begins every 5 seconds, creating new meanings and patterns in their unbalanced overlap. As a generative supercut, Atrophy never repeats, and every time it’s played a different piece is created. Over the course of the installation, both the audio and video quality degrade–slowly at first, and then more rapidly–mimicking a degenerative disease.*

Max MSP.

* The ‘degradation time’ for this video is set to ~4.5 minutes, but can be modified as desired.