Ichograph Triptych – Monet
“Ichograph Triptych – Monet” is a digital art derived from the installation “Ichographs”. Three still frames from the installation’s video are composing this image.
Work
Light Catcher
Light Catcher is an installation of sound and optical fibres. Sound is driving the light, light is generating the space. An electric spark is igniting the…
Ichographs I
Audio and video artwork that uses images as a starting point in order to create various sonic environments by exploring the relationship between color into sound frequencies.
Colour Tubes
“Colour Tubes” is an interactive installation that allows us to combine colours, in the form of tubes and cylinders, and create sounds and music.
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”