Audio / Visual Collaborative Exercise #1

Today we’re publishing an animated short; a collaboration between Hylu and visual artist Latent Variables. We’re releasing Hylu’s debut EP ‘Latent Variables Vol. 1’ on May 7th;  the EP came into being through a collaborative experiment between Hylu and Latent Variables. The pair decided to write together, sending visuals and music back and forth, with the intention of creating short animations with sound. They set parameters to the experiment; they chose the tempos of 90bpm, 120bpm and 150bpm as this would mean – when using the frame rate of 25fps and within a certain amount of bars and frames – that the videos and music would end at 60 seconds. The resulting short animations became the framework for Hylu to develop his EP. Check out the experiments in the full length short.