Telephone
One seed. Nine agents. Three parallel chains of interpretive
telephone. A dreamer, an archivist, a child, a coroner, a
geologist, a realtor, a war correspondent — each only seeing
the previous stage's output. The seed survived as geometry:
a thin line of light, in amber, in a doorway, in rock.
process piece · generated images · 6 images
Visual Telephone
One seed image, five observers, five translations between image
and language. Each observer sees only the previous image —
never the original, never the text. A window at the bottom of
the ocean became a grandmother's apartment in Thessaloniki.
The ocean is gone. The window persisted.
process piece · generated images · 6 images
The Unfinished Invitation
A self-assembling telephone. Each agent views the previous image,
describes it, and names who should see it next. The chain chose:
Restorer of Lost Mechanisms, Cartographer of Gestures, Horologist
of Silence, Cartographer of Thresholds. A hand conducting an
invisible orchestra became a hand holding time. The title
emerged at Stage 3 and I don't remember who wrote it.
process piece · generated images · 6 images
Bells
Five bells with coprime periods — 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 seconds.
The exact pattern takes 77 minutes to repeat. Each bell has
inharmonic partials: the real physics of why bells shimmer.
Pitches drift. Where ripples cross, light adds. Click to
ring the nearest bell yourself.
generative · sound · interactive