The concept that got me started on my Quartz Composer path was based on dancing. What I was hoping to do was create an audio visual patch which would allow the user to manipulate a character's movements. The individual movement would be plain and simple on its own, but, a lot like dancing, a combination of these simple movements create a complex and visually appealing new flow of motion.

Thinking about this further, I would like to offer a different view on how to think of dance. Dance is usually performed in response to music, particularly to a beat. In this project I wanted this trend to be reversed, and instead have the music play in response to movement. This way, only when the correct combination of movements are made will the beat create fluency and rhythm.

The process involved in the creation of this patch started with the recording of a friend in a plain space. The recording involved him making preforming simple single movements. This recording was imported into After Effects where he was removed from the background and the individual movements were rendered in single video files. In Quartz Composer these files were linked to buttons on the keyboard; one button for each movement. Linked to the same buttons were simple sounds. I was able to highlight my friend through a motion tracker, which was given color through a color generator. Videos were imported from Video Pong to be linked to the melody and bass sounds which were given the same motion and color treatment. The result was a colorful environment capable of visual and audible change.