Atrophy is an installation piece built from hours of home video footage my grandfather filmed and edited throughout my childhood and 250 audio clips of his voice recorded shortly before he passed away. A random audio clip is triggered every 7 seconds and a new video clip is played every 5 seconds, creating new meanings and patterns in their unbalanced overlap. Over the course of the installation, both the audio and video quality degrade – slowly at first, and then more rapidly – mimicking a degenerative disease. A generative supercut, Atrophy never repeats in the same way; every time the degradation restarts its cycle, a new piece is produced.

[The 'degradation time' of this version of the piece is ~40 minutes; the end of the video shows the beginning of a new 'cycle.']

Max MSP.