Round
Your body is a live looper pedal. Move for a few seconds and that gesture becomes a looping ghost that replays forever; layer new ones on top until a whole canon of your past selves is moving and singing at once.
Design notes
There is no master intensity knob. The piece is a growing polyphony of independent loops — each recorded gesture becomes a persistent, autonomous voice and figure on its own clock, drifting out of phase with the others. Minute five holds every layer from minute one, so it sounds and looks nothing like where it started.
Movement history is the material: after “Moving Contexts: How Culture, Context, and Movement Histories Shape Whole-Body Interaction in Aesthetic Environments” (MOCO 2026, ACM DOI 10.1145/3802842.3802852). The accumulating loops drifting out of phase follow Steve Reich’s phase music (Piano Phase, It’s Gonna Rain) — a vocal looper, but for the body.