When no clock signal crosses the audio-visual bridge, the performer matches visual phrase length to musical phrases by feel and manual edit timing

Because the rig has no shared transport between Strudel and Hydra, the performer cannot read bar position or beat phase to cue visual section changes. The working substitute is hand-timed phrasing: monitoring the music by ear, counting 4/8/16-bar sections, and editing the Hydra sketch at the phrase boundary. This requires running both editors simultaneously and developing a feel for phrase length. It is imprecise compared to beat-locked cuing but is the correct tool given the bridge constraint.

Examples

While a 16-bar arrangement plays, the performer listens for the section change, then at the anticipated bar 17 downbeat manually evals a new Hydra sketch that cuts the symmetry and resets feedback.

Assessment

Explain the difference between hand-timed phrasing and beat-locked visual cuing. What rig feature would need to be added to enable the latter?