Playing with time
SynOrbit is a virtual musical sequencer that treats time as a material to grasp, move, and reshape. Four rotating rings carry melody, chords, bass, and drums, making each track an independent musical clock.
Performers can hold, accelerate, release, or reverse a ring with bare-hand gestures. Released rings gradually return to a shared tempo without automatically realigning their beats, allowing rhythmic relationships to shift through performance.
The evolving design explores tempo-locked versus free-spinning motion and independent versus linked tracks, asking how bodily gestures can move between a shared pulse and more fluid musical time.
