Photon 2206 is an ongoing audiovisual software project focused on live montage and rhythmic work with video.

Part of a broader research into audiovisual systems, software as artistic practice, and computational forms of time.

The program is built around the idea of a track as an event object. Each track contains a video source with its audio, a selected playback region, trigger behavior, envelope, audio processing, visual transformation, modulation, and screen position.

When a track is triggered, sound and image are activated together and processed as one connected audiovisual event.

Photon 2206 uses patterns, scenes, step sequencing, LFOs, audio effects, visual parameters, and audio-reactive mappings to create a performative system for working with clips.

A fragment can be repeated, scanned through a selected region, shifted in time, filtered, distorted, layered, or placed in a grid or collage layout.

The project explores montage as a live process.

Instead of arranging video on a fixed timeline, Photon 2206 works through triggers, loops, returns, variations, and changes of state.

It takes ideas from electronic music instruments and applies them to moving image, where editing becomes something that can be played, modulated, and performed in real time.

A public beta version of Photon 2206 is available through the link below. The project is still in progress, so some functions may change or behave unpredictably. For the best experience, please use the latest version of Google Chrome.

Credits

Photon 2206

Created by Grisha Tsvetkov

2026