This is a module created with Isadora, an object oriented programming tool for video processing. The program detects the volume of the music continuously, when the volume enters the top of the range it sends a trigger. This volume spike often happens on the drum hits so it makes it a halfway decent rhythm approximator. These triggers are divided by 4, 8, 16, etc. to break them down into measures as opposed to beats. With this module, every 8th trigger sends the video clip to a random spot.

The effect is to re-edit the film to the rhythm of the music. The film is broken into four parts so that it jumps around every 1/4th of the film, this maintains some narrative thread. In addition, the speed of the clip is directly tied to the relative volume. Louder passages go faster, quieter parts go slower.

My idea was to provide different ways to present content in social places like bars. The computer can be loaded up with movies and it can play continuously, synched with an external sound source.

The film is "For All Mankind," an excellent documentary about the Apollo missions. The music is Air, the cuts are all generated by the music.