Reflection of a Virus

Cycling '74's Max, Jitter, and Symbolic Sound's Kyma

This piece was created through a series of personal reflections on events relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is my hope that you may find this piece relatable in your own way and take a moment to reflect on how the spread of the virus has influenced your own community and that of others.

Data representing the spread of the virus throughout the world is used in various elements of sound design for this piece, shaping wavetables and manipulating variables of granular synthesis. Analysis of the resulting sounds is then used to produce a visual accompaniment.

Often, how we observe such an invisible threat is only understood from what hear, from media, from officials in authority. For many of us, it is a struggle to understand this new reality of the human experience.