Cellular Automaton Pi
“Cellular Automaton Pi” is a visualization of an algorithm that uses a mathematical process called cellular automaton to generate random numbers and calculate the value of the mathematical constant Pi (π)
Experiments
Red Stroke from Joan Miro’s Blue II
Looking at the red stroke at Joan Miro’s Blue II painting, this music came up. Kranidiotis · Red Stroke from Joan Miro’s Blue II –… Read More »Red Stroke from Joan Miro’s Blue II
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” reOrchestrated.
The summer has almost finished so it is time for a new post! I reOrchestrated Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for solo cello, symphonic orchestra, SATB choir and the original voice of Kurt Cobain. I would love to read your comment on this!
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MusIcon: “Composition A”
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“Composition A” by Piet Mondrian is an abstract painting where color is used lavishly, showing bright contrast between yellow and black, red and blue, framed by dark lines and white space. My decision was to approach this painting rhythmically. I used only percussion and different rhythmic signatures for every color. So we have:
MusIcon: “The Empire of Light”
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While working on this MusIcon™, the “The Empire of Light (L’Empire des lumières)” by René Magritte, I faced a problem. I wanted to have the sound of the morning birds only in the blue area of the sky. Additionally, the music I compose for the light, heard only in around the light and up to the dark area of the trees. Using the “music sources” approach (in short, having music source around the image like small speakers. For more info read my previous post here.) this was impossible. So I decided to move forward and upgrade the MusIcon idea. I totally damped the “music sources” and instead now I use what I call “music heatmap” for every music source. A music heatmap is a visual representation of the music volume just like a heatmap is a representation of the temperature. In our case, is a grayscale image representing the volume of the music from black=0% volume to white=100% volume. Have a look in the images bellow (The Light, The Window, The Sky) where these are colored versions of the music heatmaps.
This approach has many benefits. For example, you can control the spread of the sound and the direction. You can have a sound that stops immediately in an area or spreads smoothly in another. You can also have the same sound in two ore more areas of the image.
“The Empire of Light (L’Empire des lumières)” by René Magritte, numerous versions of which exist (Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, The Guggenheim Museum), gets its title from a poem by Paul Nouge. It depicts a dark, nocturnal street scene is set against a pastel-blue, light-drenched sky spotted with fluffy cumulus clouds. With no fantastic element other than the single paradoxical combination of day and night, René Magritte upsets a fundamental organizing premise of life. [1]
In this painting there are 3 different music themes:Read More »MusIcon: “The Empire of Light”
MusIcon: “Blue II”
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“Blue II” by Joan Miro is the second MusIcon I composed. “Blue II ” is a 1961 abstract oil painting by the Spanish modern artist Joan Miró. The painting is the middle part of a triptych. In this painting there are 3 main different music themes:Read More »MusIcon: “Blue II”
MusIcon: “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump”
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“An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” by Joseph Wright of Derby depicts a scientist performing an experiment in which a bird is deprived of air, before a varied group of onlookers. The bird will die if the demonstrator continues to deprive it of oxygen, and Wright leaves us in doubt as to whether or not the cockatoo will be reprieved.[1] In this painting there are 6 different music themes:Read More »MusIcon: “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump”