RE-STRUCTURE

RE-STRUCTURE

During this one-week workshop, Master Digital Experience Design students used machine learning tools to decompose music videos into their constituent parts: segmented scenes, detected gestures, extracted colors, analyzed beats, separated audio stems, transforming linear audiovisual artifacts into structured datasets. These components were then reimagined as interactive, non-linear systems: explorable maps, generative timelines, rhythm-driven interfaces, and self-recomposing structures built with the OPENRNDR framework.

Workshop (2026) with RNDR STUDIO

Assistants
Martial Grin
Students
Amna Ahmad, Delphine Brantschen, Seoyun Choi, Marc Facchinetti, Sina Fathollahi, Gwenaëlle Gustin, Emilie Müller, Cindy Murier, Thomas Neyroud, Shin Young Park, Rishab Sachidanand, Youri Zermatten
Know-how
UX/UI, Creative coding, Data visualization

EPLE

 

This project is an interactive data visualization installation about the videoclip Röyksopp - Eple. It is divided in three experimentations, with sound, objects, and images. It is inspired by the looping effect inside of the music, and the videoclip. 

Par Rhishab Sachidanand - Marc Facchinetti - Emilie Müller


AROUND THE WORLD

 

Inspired by the hypnotic repetition of Around the World, this project invites users to look closer, to move beyond the surface of the music and into the geometry beneath it.

Each group of dancers in the clip is not merely performing. They are embodying an instrument, a frequency, a voice in the composition. By observing their patterns, their spacing, their motion, this data visualisation peels back the layers of an image we thought we already knew. Like a score made visible, the movements become data points, and the data points become meaning. The circle, omnipresent and deliberate, serves as both structure and symbol. It is the loop of the song, the orbit of the dancers, the shape of repetition itself. Through this visualisation, we trace its role not as decoration but as the underlying logic of the entire piece. This project is a metaphor for attentive watching. It turns passive listening into active excavation, uncovering what choreography, composition and visual rhythm reveal when studied together, layer by layer.

Par Shin Young Park - Delphine Brantschen - Cindy Murier


Sledgehammer

 

The final result of this workshop is a visual project that transforms linear data into a clear and engaging visual composition. By applying different techniques learned during the workshop, we explored how raw data can be organized, structured, and represented visually. The project focuses on making complex information easier to understand through generative design, visual mapping, and experimentation with form, movement, randomness and layout. Overall, the outcome shows how data can be turned into a meaningful and visually interesting representation.

Par Amna Ahmad - Seoyun Choi - Sina Fathollahi


Rhythmic Landscapes: Reframing Star Guitar

 

This project reinterprets the visual logic of Star Guitar as an interactive data-visualization experience. Inspired by the clip’s synchronization between landscape and musical structure, we created a dual interface: on the left, repeating visual elements are assembled into evolving contact sheets, revealing temporal patterns; on the right, a webcam-based system lets users manipulate a simulated train journey. The project introduces a meta-perspective where the viewer becomes both observer and participant, reflecting on how audiovisual rhythms are constructed. It was also conceived as a performative setup, where participants in front of the screen embody train passengers, reinforcing the immersive and reflexive dimension of the work.

Par Gwenaëlle GustinThomas K. Neyroud - Youri Zermatten

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