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In 2016, I began the practice in my studio of making these video and sound studies, as experiments in creating short works to find the meeting places between playing the saw (manipulated with software) and making real-time manipulated video.

I made several of these studies, took a long break, then picked the practice back up in 2021 after I had been working with a new video synthesizer for a while. I made a larger number of them, and then realized that I wanted to see them together in a grid-like structure (something akin to a video wall), particularly as many of them are made with detailed grid structures and patterns. With the sound, I also realized that my saw playing had evolved in such a way that layering some of these videos together could work in interesting ways.

I arrived at the creation of this video study grid, which gives the user the ability to play any number of the videos simultaneously, and control the audio level on each video; in this way, the visual patterns of the accumulated videos can be mixed in any number of ways, and simultaneously the sonic saw-field of the played videos can be thoroughly mixed as well.