A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design.
The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds.
The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized.
Paper cut-outs and tin foil figures were photographed a frame at a time.
The project originated from Eggeling's scroll drawings produced with fellow Dadaist Hans Richter from 1921.