The video series

Building Circle.

Circle is a long-form drone installation: four voices, one in each corner of the room, over handpan, instrument textures and a continuous sub-bass drone, built to run for hours in a real space. This series follows the build — not an expert teaching you, a creator figuring it out. The failures stay in.

Made in partnership with Dex, an AI collaborator. The music, the sound and the direction are mine. Dex implements, checks and argues alongside me. That working relationship is part of what the series shows.

Ananda in dark round glasses

01 / Episodes

Eight parts,
one deadline.

The first run of Circle was built for Wildoria, a wellness and ceremony festival on the Arkansas River, September 2026. Episodes are published here as they are finished.

  1. EP 01The VisionWhat Circle is, the deadline, and the 4.1 rig.Coming
  2. EP 02Voices from NothingFour voice characters, one per corner — and processing them until they stop sounding synthetic.Coming
  3. EP 03The Room SpeaksEvery room lies to you. Measuring it, correcting it, and making the piece travel.Coming
  4. EP 04Watching the MachineHours of autonomous playback with nobody at the laptop — and the watchdog that makes that safe.Coming
  5. EP 05The Piece Comes TogetherThe first full run, everything playing at once.Coming
  6. EP 06Load-InRig, cables and room correction in the field.Coming
  7. EP 07The PerformanceWhat worked, and what surprised us.Coming
  8. EP 08Post-Mortem & What’s NextLooking back, and where Circle goes from here.Coming

02 / The tuning

Everything sits on
one harmonic series.

The drone is built on a 32 Hz fundamental. Every note above it is a whole-number multiple — the harmonic series — so C is 256 Hz and A lands at 432 Hz as a pure ratio from the same root. The acoustic instruments are tuned by hand and drift a few cents around those targets. That drift stays: it’s the instruments’ character, heard against a fixed reference.

  • FormatLong-form ambient / drone installation, hours not minutes
  • SpaceFour corner speakers and a subwoofer, with versions for stereo PA and headphones
  • SourcesFour voice characters, handpan, instrument textures, field recordings, sub-bass drone
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