OSCILLATE

"Oscillate" is my thesis piece from the Computer Art MFA program at School of Visual Arts. Finished in May 2013, it has been shown in film festivals, galleries and events around the world, as well as winning a 2014 Student Academy Award in the Alternative category.

The concept around 'Oscillate' comes from my fascination with Fourier analysis, particularly in the context of sound, where any sound, no matter how complex, can be decomposed into a series of simple sine and cosine waves. This concept blew my mind when I first learned about it, and I was hoping to create the same sense of wonder I felt in creating my film.

Everything in this film is animated almost solely through sine wave functions, progressively stacking and adding more of them together to create complex oscillating strands over time. The viewer is taken through the process of how complexity can emerge from the combination of many simple elements, in this case one single oscillating strand multiplied onto itself many times.

The music was composed by myself, done in tandem with the visuals.