A small ensemble of dancers, each moving with their own rhythm. Drag SYNC up and they entrain; pull it down and they scatter. The music follows them.
How to play
- Drag the stage to orbit around the dancers.
- Click and hold a dancer to conduct them; they follow your gesture.
- Adjust SYNC and listen for the ensemble tightening or loosening.
- Switch sound modes to hear the same motion as a different musical language.
Controls
SyncHow tightly the ensemble moves together. 100% is unison; 0% is independent.
TempoShared pulse, in BPM. Each dancer's effective tempo blends toward this as sync rises.
DancersEnsemble size, 1 to 10.
ModeArp: each dancer's beat triggers a note in an arpeggio. Phase: slower sustained tones, à la Reich. Part: each dancer is one harmonic of a shared fundamental, amplitude driven by their motion.
What this demonstrates
Most of the project's prototypes treat democracy as a vote: discrete inputs, aggregated. Choreography reframes it as recognition: the system sees each body and translates it faithfully into sound. The composition is what the bodies make together, not what gets selected from them.
Sync is the dial between two political moods: the ensemble tightening into a shared time (tradition, discipline) and the ensemble fragmenting into individual time (autonomy, dissent). Neither is the right answer; the question is how the music feels in each.