Inspired by Michael Snow's "Wavelength" from 1967, "Pulse" is a meditative experience focused on simple rules and actions.

In "Pulse" the driving concept is simplicity. In the video, the camera is panning, taping the camera to an egg timer for consistent rotation, speed, and angle. The sound is composed of 2 interwoven sound waves shifting between one another, with that frequency of shifting becoming faster as the video progresses (with a harmonic instrument fading in and out to add moments of intrigue and tension). The audio also shifts from the right to the left channel, as the camera pans from right to left. Finally, there are intermittent moments of overlays of solid color with different compositing modes. Most overlays don't last long, used as flashes of interest to jar the viewer's brain back into focus. Some of these overlays slowly build and fade away, to make the viewer question if they were even there at all. I timed sections of faster overlay transitions to swells in the harmonic tone to give some predictability to their occurrence. Towards the end, the egg timer skips, causing the panning to stutter at times. While this was unintentional, it pairs nicely with the jittery nature of the audio.

Watching Snow's film for the first time, I was instantly interested in how the sound interacted or played off of the video. I was also struck by its simplicity; only 3 things consistently happen in "Wavelength": the camera zooms, the tone gets higher in pitch, and every so often a colored filter would be put over the film.