Animation by Viktoria Lubomski representing the path of two maypole dancers, or two maypole braiding PENELOPE robots, or two spools in a Maypole braiding machine. The audio along the trailer is taken from an mp4 file made by PENELOPE team members Alex McLean and Giovanni Fanfani. Giovanni starts with a recitation of Homer’s Iliad describing the circle of dancers on the shield of Achilleus. Alex, taking up the hexametric rhythm of Homer, live codes a sound carpet around it. The complete original video/soumd is here: Improvising with Iliad